Dover : How Automation Trends Influence Hand Soldering, Rework, and Repair
September 10, 2021 at 10:02 am EDT
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Republished from Welding Journal (September 2021) with permission of the American Welding Society (AWS).
By: Joshua Edberg, Director of Global Marketing at OK International, the parent company of Metcal, a provider of benchtop soldering systems
The evolution of electronics and devices must keep pace to meet today's operator challenges
Fig. 1 - Soldering a highly metalized through-hole coaxial connector onto a telecommunications assembly circuit board.
As technology in the electronics industry rapidly advances, electronic devices are getting smaller, faster, and more functional. Advanced printed circuit boards (PCBs) are now double-sided with stacked multiple layers. Thus, they are far more complex than conventional PCB designs and contain more components in tighter spaces, creating high-density interconnect (HDI) PCB configurations.
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Dover Corporation is a diversified industrial group. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- material handling equipment (23.7%): industrial and recreational winches, construction and demolition machinery attachments, hydraulic parts, industrial automation tools, etc.;
- fluid management products (21.2%): sucker rods, drill bit inserts for oil and gas exploration, control valves, piston and seal rings, nozzles, swivels, suction system equipment, etc.;
- refrigeration equipment (21.1%): refrigeration systems, commercial kitchen air and ventilation systems, heat transfer equipment, food and beverage packaging machines, etc.;
- mobile equipment (20.8%): tank trailers, compactors, balers, car wash systems, internal engine components, etc.;
- identification products (13.2%): industrial marking and coding systems used to code information on products, product traceability, etc.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (55.8%), Americas (8.1%), Europe (20.8%), Asia (11%) and other (4.3%).
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