Fun thing to see. Too bad they wouldnt let you video the SMD machines; whats to protect though from that? Its not like there are other manufacturers who would benefit from seeing their particular machines in action :p
Nice job though; I love these kinds of articles. Now, if you can get into a silicon fab...
thats really strange, i was reading only yesterday how they solder the components on the motherboard, and now today there's a hole article on bit-tech :D nice 1
Trust me, if you tried to solder that many components onto a bloody motherboard you'd go mental. Besides, when it takes all of 15 seconds to spray the SMDs, sockets, and chipset onto a board, would you rather have somebody sit there for an hour with a soldering iron and glue?
On the line, there's VERY little hand soldering. Just socket, oven, scrape, test and finish.
Reminds me of a How It's Made episode.
The SMD machine basically moves a firing gun around the board (using an optical laser finder thing) and fire the components right into there, very impressive to see.
That's a supurb article. Extremely intresting. I did attempt to click on images a few times though <cough>hint clicky pictures please<cough>.
I find stuff like that really engrossing, so more stuff on the production and in depth stuff on any computer hardware like that will definately be welcomed :D
Since I work for a company that has our own small SMT line it is interesting to see how the big companies do it (although I have visited a couple large production lines). Maybe next time we do a SMT run I will take a short video (although it is nowhere the speed of the newer machines).
nice article, shame about the video thing
I thought it was rather disappointing that so much of the work is done by humans, with almost to only automated bit being SMD
I also thought it was funny - 5x as many employees and only 2x more productivity
Very cool article. I have an ECS mobo in my current desktop and I've never had a problem and now I can see why. That's sme pretty decent testing, especially at those temps (my PC dies after 30 minutes of 3dmark2k1 (but thats cause it sucks))
You guys (if you have the ability) should do more articles like this
ECS as a whole is a good company for value ended items; you can get away with putting one of these in a PC that wont be used for overclocking quite easily - you have to be a lot more careful with their PC Chips subsidiary though
wow it was like bringing my job to bit tech :D on a slightly lower spec my end ;) believe me its all boring really! and before you say it no i don't have to wear them white hats^^ im in inspection AOI we get away with it
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Nice job though; I love these kinds of articles. Now, if you can get into a silicon fab...
On the line, there's VERY little hand soldering. Just socket, oven, scrape, test and finish.
The SMD machine basically moves a firing gun around the board (using an optical laser finder thing) and fire the components right into there, very impressive to see.
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I find stuff like that really engrossing, so more stuff on the production and in depth stuff on any computer hardware like that will definately be welcomed :D
The testing of PC motherboards is probably far more interesting than the stuff we made though. Not as expensive though, heh.
They didn't produce the PCBs though, so that was interesting to see!
Im actually off to China tomorrow on my hols. Think they will let me have a look around?? lol would be nice.
I thought it was rather disappointing that so much of the work is done by humans, with almost to only automated bit being SMD
I also thought it was funny - 5x as many employees and only 2x more productivity
You guys (if you have the ability) should do more articles like this
See ya later,
-Geordan
this was a great article to read. very well done:D.
Nowhere is SMD Soldering mentioned. Probably involves big IR reflow ovens.
the article goes straight from SMD placement to adding memory slots.