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PartnerTech bolsters UK fast-turn NPI build capability with X-Tek X-ray system
PartnerTech, one of Europe’s leading contract manufacturing companies, selected an X-Tek X-ray inspection system to test high-complexity boards featuring BGAs and CSPs. The company installed the inspection system at its 2,700 square meter UK manufacturing facility at Poole in Dorset. The new kit will further improve PartnerTech’s capability of providing customers with fast-turn builds of highly complex electronic and mechatronic products featuring devices such as BGAs and CSPs.
Need for automatic X-ray inspection using angled views
The X-Tek inspection system provides the highest resolution and magnification possible within a compact X-ray system for quality control, research and failure analysis. The machine has the ability to inspect substrates at steep angles of up to 75 degrees and is designed for 100% BGA and µBGA, multi-layer board and PCB solder joint inspection, with quick analysis of BGA ball wetting, attachments, cracks and delaminations
“We do a lot of rapid new product introductions (NPI) for customers at the Poole facility, and many of the products feature unusual devices and geometries that cannot be visually inspected,” says Rex Waygood, Technical Manager at PartnerTech’s Poole facility.
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“We therefore needed a system that is able to perform automatic X-ray inspection (AXI) using angled views and test fine-pitch devices as well as BGAs and CSPs. Most importantly, we needed a system that gives us complete confidence that boards, particularly products that we have not built before, are assembled correctly first time.”
X-ray fits well in full range of product lifecycle services
PartnerTech in Poole offers its customers the full range of product lifecycle services, including product design/development, prototyping, NPI, test solutions, PCB assembly (PCBA), full-system build, logistics, distribution and after sales. The company works in partnership with OEMs across medical, aerospace & defence, industrial and telecom markets.
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