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Code: EP27 Contents of this page:Description DescriptionThis book has a bias towards the needs of small and medium-sized companies aspiring to introduce or set-up a surface mount facility. The ‘make or buy’ decision is reviewed, but it is then assumed that this was taken in favour of an in house facility I.E. the design and production of surface mount and mixed technology assemblies. The aim is to help managing directors and department heads in design, purchasing, production, quality , personnel and finance, in companies setting up a new line or running an existing operation. The content is structured in two sections. It moves the reader step by step through each stage, first in the planning and then in the implementation of a facility. There is a strong emphasis on practical details and pitfall avoidance. For the planning phase, the book offers methods of using likely component and printed board content of products to estimate capacity requirements. This information has then to be matched to realistic assessments of projected equipment capacity. Application environment determines the types of test programme to be catered for. These data are then factored into the activity levels of each department in the company so that workforce size and training costs can be estimated. The financial penalties that come from ill-prepared sallies into the technology can be severe, but are easily avoidable. In the worst cases seen, the responsibility for planning and implementing the introduction of SM into a company has been delegated to a junior production engineer. Typically the order has been ‘Prepare a budget and process plan’, and later ‘Carry on and buy and install the equipment. We need to be fully operational within three months’. In most cases, this type of approach has signalled the complete absence of understanding of the many other vital issues which must be addressed. The chapter headings in this book indicate the range of activities needing integration for success. Their breadth normally demands the personal drive and power of the managing director as project manager but, regrettably, sufficient technical background and training for the task has only rarely been seen at this level. A major difficulty observed in today’s European and US electronics manufacture, has been the lack of awareness among senior executives of what is needed to bring reliable surface mount technology onto the factory floor at minimum cost. This book sets out to address those key areas. Some Worldwide Reviews"Once read, it is certain that is will be referred to frequently during the course of setting up, and most copies will become dog-eared long before they finally reach the top shelf in the company library." Microelectronics International (UK) About the AuthorHaving been involved for over 25 years in surface mount technology, David Boswell has become one of the world’s leading experts in this activity. Following graduation at London University, he spent twelve years working at GEC (Hirst) Research Laboratories at Wembley on valve, cathode ray tube and semiconductor design and holds patents in these fields. He moved into film circuits and printed board production and general management in various companies including GEC, English Electric, Elliott Automation and ITT/STC. From 1965 to 1978 he ran the ITT Film Circuit Division at Paignton in Devon. He was the primary founder of ISHM-UK and ISHM-Europe and has also served as the UK’s principal expert on international standards bodies such as the CECC and IEC and as chairman of Trade Association commercial and technical committees. Later he became an independent management and technical consultant whose client list includes the United Nations, the British Government (DTI), BSI, GEC, CIT-Alcatel, British Telecom, Lucas, Mitsubishi, The Scottish Development Agency, ICL, Race, NEC, OKI, Epson, Thomson, Mars, Unitech, AB Electronics, Unitech, Racal, Stewart Wrightson, Scientific Generics, Cambridge Consultants, British Aerospace and others. In 1985 he founded Surface Electronics Ltd in Poole, Dorset, a major specialist SM contract assembly company. Recently returning to consulting activities, in this r™le he became chairman and chief executive of the Joint Government (DTI)/Industry Surface Mount Club at NPL at Teddington, responsible for promoting the intelligent application of SM technology throughout the UK. This continues as a privatised partnership and currently he is also the principal UK representative in IEC TC 91 covering surface mount and related assembly technologies. Table of Contents
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