Mission Accomplished In Record Time

PAL technicians recently broke all records, ensuring a 50 panel per hour Copper/Tin Pattern plate line was up and ready for chemistry and testing in just 18 days.

The record-breaking installation was at PC World in Toronto, Canada. As Dave Jones, who has been working for PAL Service for nearly six years explains: “This project was testimony to PAL’s ability to meet with demanding installation schedules. It involved a typical array of onsite challenges, which were met by the team who doubled their efforts to stay on schedule. Our programming department also rose to the event, modifying and enhancing the software, and working closely with the customers’ process engineers.

  

“The installation sees another first chalked up …. Pulse Tin Plating. Hardeep Heer of PC World is using a PE Pulse rectifier for the tin process. All testing was successful and the machine is consistently producing good distribution and a high quality finish.”

“Dave Jones played a very important part in this key installation,” explains John Smeltz of PAL Service. “He was the coordinator for the complete job, his team of twelve men from Hong Kong worked seven days a week often 12 to 14 hours a day! Dave had Mike Saunders, another PAL Service contractor helping him. Mike is a certified electrician who, has been working on PAL equipment for even longer than Dave. Mike did a great job, especially identifying parts that had to be replaced with CSA approved parts.”

The line is now in production, putting PC World on the leading edge of the Canadian PCB industry. PC World is a high end PCB manufacturer. They have been shipping thick high technology boards with blind and buried vias for some time and predict ever-higher average layer counts and board thickness. Their customer base includes avionics, networking, power supply and the telecommunications market and includes leading OEMs and subcontract manufacturers. The company has been a leading supplier of high technology including microvia PCBs to the North American and European marketplace.

MAKING AN EXHIBITION OF OURSELVES

In addition to this year’s Productronica and TPCA, where perhaps you will have collected a copy of this issue of PAL News, you can see us at the following events in the months to come.

• IPC 2002 - 26-28 March, Long Beach, California, USA
• JPCA 2002 – 5-7 June, Tokyo, Japan
• EPC 2002 – 8-10 October, Cologne, Germany
• TPCA 2002 – November, Taiwan

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