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What You Need to Include in Your Bill of Materials for Your PCB Assembly Service Provider Are you putting in your first order with a new PCB assembly service provider? One of the most important documents in this exchange will be your bill of materials (BOM). A bill of materials will tell your PCB manufacturer … Read moreYour Bill of Materials for Your PCB Assembly Service Provider
Can a Rigid Printed Circuit Board Include Surface Mount Technology and Thru-Hole Technology? In previous blog posts, we’ve explained the difference between surface mount technology (SMT) and thru-hole technology. The vast majority of rigid printed circuit boards (PCBs) use surface mount technology, because SMT components are smaller than thru-hole components and can be mounted on … Read moreSurface Mount Technology and Thru-Hole Technology?
What Do We Do with Extra PCB Parts? At Yun Industrial and ACME PCB Assembly, we keep many of the most common components needed for our printed circuit board assembly service on hand so that we can provide our clients with fast and efficient order turnaround. However, in some cases, we do need to order … Read moreWhat Do We Do with Extra PCB Parts?
These days, a printed circuit board includes copper sheets laminated onto a non-conductive substrate. They are usually small and crowded with capacitors, resistors, and other active devices. Printed circuit boards didn’t always look this way. In 1943, Dr. Paul Eisler created what is considered the first operating printed wiring board. Over the next decades, printed … Read moreWhat Did the First Printed Circuit Boards Look Like?
Proud to Be a Lead-Free PCB Assembly Provider There’s a reason that in the United States we no longer allow lead in paint or in gasoline. Though lead is a naturally occurring element, it can be highly toxic to humans. It has been connected with behavior and learning problems, lower IQ, slowed growth, anemia, and … Read moreProud to Be a Lead-Free PCB Assembly Provider
How Printed Circuit Boards Brought the Super Bowl to Your Home The confetti has fallen. The Kansas City Chiefs walked away with Super Bowl LIV rings. Whether or not you felt a particular attachment to either team, you have to admit that the game was thrilling right up to the very end. What you might … Read moreHow Printed Circuit Boards Super Bowl to Your Home
The new ERSA PL650A Helps Grow Our Services We are proud to announce the addition of a new piece of technology to our PCB assembly services. The ERSA PL 650A, a flexible rework powerhouse for challenging tasks. This rework machine gives us the flexibility to work on many projects including extra-large printed circuit boards (PCBs) … Read moreThe new ERSA PL650A Helps Grow Our Services
After years of buzz, on Wednesday, December 20th, Magic Leap released a rendering of its blockbuster-in-the-making augmented reality device. The Magic Leap One is a set of augmented reality goggles that uses at least six cameras and multiple microphones to layer the unreal on top of the user’s reality. It comes with a Lightpack to … Read moreThe Magic Leap Jumps onto the Augmented Reality Center Stage
Has the iPhone’s New Facial Recognition Feature Destroyed What Little Privacy We Have Left? Year by year, we have all gotten used to ceding more of our privacy away. We know that Facebook collects every bit of data that we publish on its site to help its business clients better target us for ads. We … Read moreHas the iPhone’s New Facial Recognition
At Yun Industrial Acme PCB Assembly, we are proud to offer printed circuit board assembly processes that meet RoHS standards. What is RoHS, and why is it almost certainly in your interest to use RoHS-compliant parts vendors? Hazardous Substances In the past, and even continuing into the present, many electronic items contain hazardous materials, which … Read moreWhy You Need to Understand the RoHS Directive Even If You Aren’t Based in Europe