Printed-circuit boards used to be works of art, and the PCB designer was an artist as well as a technician. Components had many different shapes, sizes, and colors, and the traces connecting them were ...

This will enable circuit boards to generate data and send these to your manufacturing execution system, to other machines and production cycles, or to your supply chain both up- and downstream ...

Through-hole assembly means bending leads on components and putting the leads through holes in the circuit board, then soldering them in place, and trimming the wires. That took up too much space ...

Joining materials and components Surface mounted technology (SMT) Surface mounted technology (SMT) ... is used to place electrical components on top of circuit boards.