Seminar: Avoiding Assembly Pitfalls – DFA/DFM Lessons for First PCB Runs
REGISTER NOW
April 24th, 2025 | 2-5 PM PT
COST: $125
-
72
Days
-
11
Hours
-
42
Minutes
-
2
Seconds
Keven Coates
Senior Electrical Engineer
Online via Zoom
Following this event, you will receive:
-
Presentation slides
-
Certificate
Seminar abstract:
Prototype PCBs often have a 30% to 70% fail rate! Learn how to make that significantly better through proper parts placement, orientation, and knowledge of the assembly process. This class is less about circuit boards and more about learning to work with manufacturing and assembly shop practices and understanding the fabrication process so you can design your PCB to work the first time, and have increased yield/profitability afterwards. This class is based on years as the EE in charge of working with our in-house assembly shop to increase yield. Design for manufacturing and assembly is crucial to improving first runs and getting them into production friendly yields.
Register now!
Seminar agenda:
-
Design for manufacturing:
- • BGA and component pads
- • Stencil issues
- • Diode/LED issues
- • Panelization
- • V-groove stress effects
- • Part cracking
- • Connector stress
-
Design for assembly:
- • Solder profile
- • Thermal masses
- • Connectors
- • Through-hole components
- • Selective soldering
- • ESD in assembly
- • PCB cleaning issues
- • Test (flying probe? bed of nails?)
- • Capacitors (heat variance)
- • Automated optical inspection
- • BGA inspection (Xray? 3D?)
About Keven Coates
Keven Coates' career spans 32 years of embedded processor digital/analog systems, high-speed PCB layout/signal integrity, very low-noise circuits, high-power circuits, thermal management, battery safety, battery management, and battery interface circuits for consumer, industrial and automotive designs. He's currently a senior electrical engineer at Novium Designs working on designs for the next international space station. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University.
