Designed experiments to investigate the solder joint quality output of a prototype automated surface mount replacement system

Author

Fidan, Ismail ; Kraft, Russel P. ; Ruff, Lawrence E. ; Derby, Stephen J.

Author_Institution

Design & Manuf. Inst., Stevens Inst. of Technol., Hoboken, NJ, USA

Volume

21

Issue

3

fYear

1998

fDate

7/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

172

Lastpage

181

Abstract

A robotic remanufacturing system at Rensselaer has been developed to replace fine pitch surface mounted components on a populated printed circuit board (PCB). The performance goal is to maximize the quality of the solder joint output to optimize the system´s throughput. The purpose of this paper is to present the process parameters determined for obtaining a good solder joint with the rework cell. Developed here and to show an analysis of the solder joint quality obtained from the developed system. Maximizing the rate of correctly reworked components by the system is not chosen as a goal for measuring the system´s performance. This is because rework is a low volume process and the cell being used, is an experimental prototype system

Keywords

design of experiments; fine-pitch technology; industrial robots; printed circuit manufacture; soldering; surface mount technology; automated replacement system; designed experiment; fine pitch surface mounted component; printed circuit board; rework; robotic remanufacturing system; solder joint quality; Fiber lasers; Laser beams; Manufacturing; Power lasers; Printed circuits; Prototypes; Quantum cascade lasers; Robotic assembly; Soldering; Temperature;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology, Part C, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1083-4400

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/3476.720414

Filename

720414