The History of Surface Mount Technology and It’s Advantages
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The History of Surface Mount Technology
The History of Surface Mount Technology began in the 1960’s. However, it didn’t become popular until the 1980’s. The original name for this technology was Planar Mounting. IBM designed the majority of the components for these machines.
Surface mount technology is a method for producing electronic circuits. These circuits include components. These components are mounted or placed directly onto the surface of printed circuit boards.
Originally, the machines were quite large. However, the components became smaller over time. This was due to the ever changing technology. Therefore, there was an increase in the ability to create higher quality work.
Advantages of Surface Mount Technology
There are many advantages to Surface Mount Technology.
Some of these advantages include:
- The reduction of human intervention (thus errors).
- The reduction of labor costs.
- Additionally, the reduction of production/overhead costs.
- Repetitive operations support process control quality concepts.
- Surface Mount enhances production speed.
- There is an increase in operating speed.
- Surface Mount increases circuit density.
- Increased circuit capability.
- Surface Mount creates adequate performance capability.
- Also, there is a reduction in heat generation.
- Furthermore, Surface Mount reduces power consumption.
- There is a continuation in production enhancement and evolution.
- Most noteworthy, Surface Mount is useful in combination with through-hole techniques.
All of these advantages help to increase production. Along with the this production increase, there is an elevated level of quality.
Disadvantages of Surface Mount Technology
There are many advantages to Surface Mount Technology. However, there are also some disadvantages.
Some of the disadvantages include:
- Surface Mount machines are more costly due to investment in expensive machinery
- Also, Surface Mount is mostly suitable for small or low power parts as well as low-voltage parts.
- Unfortunately, solder connections can have damage. This is due to potting compounds going through thermal cycling.
- Surface Mount requires advanced manual prototype assembly as well as component-level repair. Therefore, requiring skilled operators. This is along with, expensive tooling.
- Furthermore, most of all these machines require skilled workers. This is due to small components.
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