Surface Mount Technology

Posted by on Jun 28, 2011 in Technology | 0 comments Surface Mount Technology has been around since the 1960′s. At first engineers were just bending the leads of thru-hole components to make them fit on the surface of a circuit board. But today’s SMT is far more sophisticated. There are components so small that if you held a few thousand of them in your hand, you would have a difficult time differentiating them from a handful of...
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Through-Hole Technology

Posted by on Jun 28, 2011 in Technology | 0 comments Through-hole technology is one of the oldest forms of circuit board assembly. Still around today and still chosen as the golden standard for high reliability and/or high power applications. This is where it all started for WAi back in 1976, assembling circuit boards for a medical biofeedback company. Back then everything was done by hand and getting 50 boards out of the factory per week was...
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Mixed Technology

Posted by on Jun 28, 2011 in Technology | 0 comments As SMT progressed, it became clear that there were certain components that just could not make the surface mount transition. For instance, large connectors, powerful transistors, high current devices etc. But engineers and customers still wanted the space advantages that surface mount technology afforded them. Now, many products today are built with a mix of surface mount and through-hole...
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Finished Assembly

Posted by on Jun 28, 2011 in Technology | 0 comments Many of our customers appreciate having WAi complete their full product assembly in house. It’s just as easy for us to do it while we have the boards in the manufacturing process. It also helps us to quickly and easily identify issues that might come up with prototype assemblies, such as mounting holes not drilled in the correct location or the correct size. Or clearance issues with tall...
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