The next step to the advancement in Security/Safety devices with smart PCB manufacturing

By | Date posted: | Last updated: March 20, 2017
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The need for security is as old as danger itself. The past few years have witnessed the realization of the significance of installing competent safety and security measures growing steadily, hitherto not only in domestic but also in non-residential contexts. The cities over the globe are burgeoning at the seams, crime is harder than ever, criminals are smarter than ever and civic properties are at stake. There is a mark of an unprecedented surge in the number of smart technologies showcased: video surveillance, attack and burglar alarm systems, access control, fire alarms and voice alarm technology all grew in size. With advent of Internet Of Things, customized PCB Manufacturing is now in demand more than ever. Device makers will be impelled towards Making a safety-critical gadget in their bids to be innovative and stay competitive. Aerospace, defense, automotive, medical and industrial control are just an iota of the verticals that will see growth as the ability to interconnect and remotely work with device augments. The Article tries to elaborate how PCBs have made the life of surveillance team much easier. How PCB based electronic surveillance gadgets have taken the market with its tide rolling over the unparalleled vigilant technologies.

Electronic Industry, in the last decade has witnessed that most of the disruptive innovation sprouts from small scale, dynamic and entrepreneurial organizations. With this, the OEM’s, new startups and other electronic manufacturing units has marked a radical opportunity to focus on developing smarter game changing technologies to provide high end security and safety to the human life, corporate assets and even to protect the earth.

The trend in PCB market is forecasting an amplified graph of change in technologies with new innovations every other day. The world of security and surveillance rolls around the smart technologies, compact solutions and time saving funds. In order to be the name of the game in the market the OEMs and other players have started focusing on the key success factors to survive in the industry. Some focus on the specialization, some concentrate on rapid innovations with superior performance and low cost production is at the nucleus for everyone in the market.

One of the prime drivers to new discoveries is the hardware, PCB chips that will continue to evolve radically with more and more networked devices delivering ever increasing capability. This is due to the fad and fashion of Internet of Things that will make the machine to machine communication more stronger. To establish the communication between the device and real world, the advancement is showcased in the integration of PCB assembly and management software.

There are few devices that garnered a lot of attention in the Security market. A surveillance camera is the most apt example. A recent innovation in the PCB Manufacturing has enabled the cameras to store the footages in terabytes at an affordable price. With the enablement of networking, electronic hardware along with management software we will soon be having analytic programs, guidingcameras to decide and filter the recordings required to be stored or deleted from the library.

Augmented Reality which is now garnering huge hype owes its credits to recent developments in PCB Layout which enables the communications between the Real World and Hardware helping us view the live version of the elements of environment augmented by sensors capturing sounds, visuals, graphics or GPS Data from embedded camera circuits that creates an augmented data which is flashed in front of your eyes.

The portable module that can be attached to any regular glasses to make it a smart technology device is one of the perks in the Security market. This is going to show enhancement in surveillance by Police and Security guards.

Recent Innovations have enabled humans to access control of security devices without ironmongery. The customized PCB Prototypes have facilitated assembling VPN, RFID, Mobile Phones, Tablets, Biometrics to the network connections and can be managed by access control systems. Authentications now may not require human interface, but will move to a self-managed control system model due to recent advances in security devices that will help in reducing the cost of employing personnel staff or security guards. This can be exemplified with the full HD camera that has the capability to view in a 130 degree arc and is equipped with an Infra Red Sensor which can effectively sense intruders in the night. It is integrated with the mobile devices that operates on iOS and Android, which appeals to the tech savvy consumers to have the security of their homes on their mobile screens.

In this era of the Internet, we may not be able to predict the future of technology innovation five years down the line. Hardware Chips and PCB Layout are changing substantially smarter and economical which will drive the technologies that can change the game and disrupt the security industry. With this, the spotlight to the vital drivers includes Technology and Compliance. Technology in terms of advancements and more research in design, more advanced and low cost PCBs/Hardware modules which can be integrated with PCB assemblies to capture more accurate and real time data processing it faster. Secondly Compliance, which complements the hardware technology with the software that enables the data management and data processing. The Software will manage the flow of data across systems to give consumers easily interpretable outputs.

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New Flairs In Global Application Of LED Lighting With The PCB Manufacturing

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The world has taken a step ahead to the next level by gradually improving the traditional energy sources. From primitive lighting concepts of candles, modifications have reached a high level of enhancements with direct energy to optical radiations in the semiconductors. With this, the LED lights have shown a hike in its usage in all the energy applications. One of the major challenges in LED lightings and emergency lighting industry is the level of thermal management that well balances the thermal output for high energy applications. Also the new trend of miniaturization and nano concept buzzing in the global market has increased the demand of customized PCB manufacturing and PCB prototyping that depends on the purpose and use of high performance LED lights. This article attunes you with the PCB technologies applied in the LED lights, things to be considered to get a high performance lighting system and recent modernization in the LED concepts.

The modification in PCB is becoming a reliable electronic solution for LED lighting to many OEM’s, EMS and other manufacturing units for tuning their products with high end customization. It has universal applications, be it a lightning system for home, corporate use, aerospace, urban street lighting, projection systems, hospitality, infrared heating, industrial use, automobiles, bicycle lighting, medical operations, hospitality, retail and other markets. The top most challenge faced by the LED light manufacturers is the right type of printed circuit board to be integrated in the product.

To get an accurate and optimum electronic solution, some aspects are vital to be considered to design a proven layout of LED circuit boards. This includes the thermal quantity, dimensions of the components, where should the energy loss be dissipated, the proper place for the heat sources, balancing temperature, cooling system and proper heat sinks.To get a perfect electronic solution for a systematic conduct in LED lights, the printed circuit board is fabricated by using state of the art techniques and technologies that includes the FR4 epoxy resin and glass fiber PCB that allows heat distribution in big surface with improved thermal dissipation, FR4 PCB with thermal via array where PTH (plated through hole) technology is used with configuration of thermal vias that enhances thermal resistance vertically, thick copper PCB with ‘iceberg technology’ is used in case of LED with high power and effective cooling system , FR4 technology used in PCB that requires proper thermal distribution and heat dissipation, IMS (Insulated Metal Substrate) used for higher thermal conductivity, thick or thin film technology and many more are implemented in the PCB assembly to meet the exact requirements of LED lighting.

These technologies have reshaped the LED lights into a wide range of products consisting of LED mounted clothing, vehicle hazard lights, bespoke concert light balls, snowflake lights that are majorly used in entrance to hotels and exhibition centers, wall back lights, stage lights, exhibition lights, DC safety lights, hand rail lighting, spot lights, floor lights that are used in swimming pools and dance floors, exit lights and cabin lights. Apart from this, LED lights have its application in aircraft lighting systems and marine lighting systems. This is now showing an increase in the use of Bendable Polyimide Substrate to control the lighting output with low cost of manufacturing and installation. The cold white LED light has its application in the cameras and fluorescence microscopy. The sophistication is now the name of the game to connect the LED with the sensors and dimmers. Also a fierce competition for quality and durability of products in LED market across the globe with intensions to reduce the replacement operations of the defective products.

This has made the fashion and technology to head at the same wavelength. With this, upcoming innovations are addressed in the use of smart LED bulbs and fiber optics in the jackets, clothing, costumes, shoes and many more. In addition to this, the research and development made it possible to integrate Wifi control, DMS control, softwares, music system and SD card system with the LED lights.

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PCB manufacturing and PCB assembly being a lead to new innovations in the Transportation industry

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The transportation industry has come up with many effective innovations in providing electronic solutions that dwells on the use of complex high customized PCB’s. For risk free transportation solutions, the printed circuit board industry has developed proven tech PCB Layout to serve the technological advancement in road transport, rail, aerospace, shipping, marine and automotive markets. This has also posed a challenge among the PCB manufacturers to offer high end customization right from the material selection, different shape and sizes by providing contract manufacturing, consigned or complete turnkey solutions as per the demand of varied customers across the globe. With this different state of the art techniques like SMT (Surface Mount Technique), Through Hole Techniques are highly in use for smooth PCB fabrication and PCB assembly. The increased use of circuit boards is seen in the transportation industry with modified navigation systems, tracking systems, alarm systems, lightings and many other user friendly devices and electric systems installed in cars, trucks, coaches, ships, submarines, trains, aircrafts, helicopters, buses and many more vehicles. These types of application demand for standard and multi-layered PCB with lower pitch BGA and with varied type of dielectric. Apart from this rigid/flex PCB is also used by many OEM’s and EMS in the transportation sector. This article brings to light many technological advancements in the transportation industry, the PCB used in its application and challenges faced by the PCB manufacturers and tech designers.

With the global dynamic discoveries and innovations featured in the transportation sector, the printed circuit boards with high speed and complex layout requires a high energy delivery system with better thermal profiling for any type of design tool be it schematic capture, layout or simulation pcb layout method. Apart from this, a system aware engineering with 3D modulations are used for tracing the system mechanism operating in the circuit board to optimize the performance. The Multi layered, Single/Double sided and Box Build PCB assembly is being used specially for the advancement in devices used in the transportation industry.

The challenge faced by the PCB designers is to present a tech savvy compact design with multi functionality features that is capable of extra memory, power potentiality and processor with modified data management systems. The PCB’s to be manufactured with captivating costs is also a tough job for PCB designers, especially for serving the automotive electrical solutions. The technology is now getting rid of these challenges with the use of rigid/ flex PCB that has flexible molding and ultra HDI features which well suits the requirements of the transportation industry.

Transportation Technologies:

  • The GPS tracking device has shown new innovations in its usage to track the vehicles by installing it with the battery of vehicles that directly transmits the vehicle position to the web server. The Rigid/ flex PCB’s are high in use with the increased use of mini GPS tracker used in various transport systems.
  • The reversing alarms are used in trucks, fork trucks, electric vehicles, coaches, buses, tankers and other heavy vehicles. Another type of alarm system includes the talking alarm which has a risk free warning system that talks about the exact dangers like non application of a hand-brake, seatbelt unfastened, fuel required etc. Other car alarms and immobilizers used for vehicle security for locking the doors and steering wheel are also high in use. For these automotive systems, burglar alarm circuit and car alarm circuit are high in use in the PCB market.
  • The auto-transformer rail controllers are also showing its innovations in controlling the railway systems that have railway signaling electronics and detection devices that are used for train control mechanics. Nowadays, train lighting systems have smooth operating models with rail traffic light controllers and LED lightings used in trains.
  • The cars and heavy duty vehicles now have an installed system performance sensor that controls the braking systems, torque sensors, accelerometer and other automotive component sensors.
  • The double sided PTH PCB’s, HDI layer PCB and multi layered PCB are used in the in train communication tracking are highly in use for communication systems used in the railway industry.
  • The Manglev trains without wheels that runs with magnetic tracks will slowly replace the traditional rail system with developments in electronic devices.
  • Driverless cars and electric cars with calibrated robots and navigation systems add to the recent innovations.
  • A smart road system used to understand the traffic patterns with noting the tires hitting the ground that guides the driver to read the traffic and route the destination.
  • Other innovations are found in metros, subway trains, ship, submarines, the speedboats, Paragliding systems, ergonomic transport systems used in the medical industry, electric trucks etc.

These innovations in transportation industry poses demand for the PCB fab and PCB prototyping services that has high end customization in its production process, high grade quality, on time delivery of orders, effective supply chain and vendor management. It has also become a mandatory aspect to have a PCB fabrication and assembly as per the international standards of quality.

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Innovations in Printed Circuit Board (PCB) manufacturing and PCB assembly proving to be an opportune to develop unveiled in Medical and Bio- Medical Equipment Industry with a subtle tuning of health to technology

By | Date posted: | Last updated: August 19, 2020
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The broad arc of innovations introduced and coming up in today’s era calls for attention to the developing medical and bio-medical equipment /devices. It is now becoming a prime element in the lifestyle of people right from the carrycot to the tomb. Even with the rapid pace seen in the medical industry with technological advancement, a number of challenges hit up the engineering of medical devices. With this, high grade printed circuit boards are being developed with the latest designs for complex therapeutic equipment. Until now, all the major inventions in PCB used for medical devices were the soul concentration of PCB manufacturers in the USA. This gave a stride to use of customized PCB in predominant industries with the introduction of accurate analogue/digital design; multi-layered circuit boards, BGA with varied fabrication techniques like Through-hole-technique, Surface Mount technique, Box-build assembly, Cable harness assembly and many more. This article is a brief spotlight to the drifts in the development of the newer concepts in the medical industry with the enhanced PCB assembly and PCB manufacturing methods. In addition, it also highlights the recent medical technological up gradation with medical inventions going on worldwide.

The printed circuit boards were under fashion from the onset of 1900 and gradually it trended to provide electronic solutions to the Defense and US army. Right from the origination of PCBs and the idea of the auto assembly process was grounded by the PCB manufacturer in the USA. Sooner the use of PCB was found in all the industries that focused on putting forward new ideas with a modern touch to their production and NPL (New Product Launches). The medical, aerospace, military, industrial, renewable, telecommunication and automotive industry are now a part of these transformations. This was a new dawn of the revival in the medical industry with state of the art electronics and PCB solutions getting into the vein to enhance the lifestyle of people with many user-friendly curative methods. As a result, this generated more and more health consciousness among the people and also a sense of concern for maintaining high-quality control as well as safety measures with the usage of medical devices.

Medical technology has taken the podium to the next level of competition by giving pause to the new ideas to mend and heal the people. The trends of modernization in fitness and health devices, diagnostic methods and AT (automated therapy) equipment made the rigid/flex PCB manufacturing and PCB prototypes with embedded components and 3D modelling a natural choice for PCB manufacturer. This even gave rise to a demand for miniaturization in PCB prototyping. Behind the scenes, the leap in the development of PCB assembly and the PCB fabrication process has altered the use of medical equipment with bettered therapeutic results.

The innovations outlined in medical devices like Cardiac Mapping as used for diagnosing heart diseases, Medical Motion Control System that controls position and velocity of motors, Electronic Nerve Stimulation Device that delivers smooth electrical impulses to the paralysed muscles, In Robotic braces and Motor Controller to command the speed and direction from the central logic controller of any robotic device, Artificial Cardiac Pacemaker that regulates the heartbeats, Blood Glucose Monitors to test the sugar level in the body, Computed Tomography (CT ) scanner that scans the bones- blood vessels – soft tissues and internal organs of the body for diagnoses, Ultrasonic equipment for sonography and many more have shown improvements in dealing with the diseases .

Apart from these developments in the PCB used in medical and dental equipment, quality and safety are the prime focus considered in PCB manufacturing services. For stringent control in quality and to achieve defect free PCB production techniques, few testing methods are used which includes ‘Thermal profiling method’ that measures the temperature profiles for complex PCB’s, ‘Flying Probe Testing’ to validate the component placement, ‘ICT Testing’ to detect the parametric failures and design faults in prototypes and ‘Functional testing ‘to control the behavior and functions of the circuit board.

Thus, numerous transformations are seen in building medical diagnostic equipment, developing HDI circuit boards, Making imaging with lab equipment, 3D sensors in printed circuit boards and many more. In addition to this, the latest upcoming fade is spotted out in manufacturing echo friendly PCB’s. At last, a recent ray of discovery is heading towards an antidote for the Zika virus that is mushrooming towards many countries, namely New Zealand and the US which needs a sheer technological invention to curb and eradicate the Zika virus across the globe.

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