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Understanding Quick Turn PCB Fabrication

Quick turn is imperative when it comes to PCB fabrication. Quick go-to-market can be a large source of having a competitive advantage. At ACME PCB Assembly we tend to place a great deal of importance when it comes to providing a prompt delivery service of your order, while complying with all quality control and certification measures. ACME PCB Assembly provides many different types of quick turn flex PCB fab, quick turn multi-layer PCB fab, quick turn rigid PCB fab, quick turn rigid-flex PCB fab and much more.

We incorporate strict testing protocols and our outstanding inspection systems insure that the quality is authenticated, while we still meet your timeline. Regardless if your requirement is simple or multi-layered boards, we ensure that the Quick Turn PCB Manufacturing process is seamless.

Understanding the Benefits of Quick Turn PCB Fabrication

One of the biggest benefits is the quick turnaround time, meaning that you can get your product to market without any manufacturing delay.  This in turn gives you a leading advantage from the other competition, especially since you are likely to be operating in a highly competitive market.  ACME PCB Assembly ensures that your go to market plans are not ruined or delayed by the non-availability of PCB boards.  We offer high quality boards in a timely manner, which helps getting through the initial product launch and marketing plan seamlessly.

Applications Available for Quick Turn PCB Fabrication

Turnkey PCBPCB Prototypes

Quick turn PCBs hold their importance in prototyping because when you need a quick and accurate idea of how your final product will look and perform, they are done quickly and available right away. Quick turnaround times come in handy, in determining the efficacy of the product before investing in a large production run. It’s also an advantage in the fact that any improvements or changes can be made in a timely matter holds it’s perks also.

Standard Production Run

When you are ready and start looking for larger production runs, the one thing that is of most importance is the delivery time.  Quick turn PCBs ensure that there are no delays, making it possible for device manufacturers to reach their end consumer quickly.  Another factor to look at is that shorter manufacturing times with standard SOPs can also result in optimization of costs, which is a significant source of competitive advantage.

ACME PCB Assembly ready for RoHS 2

ACME PCB Assembly provides RoHS 2 PCB and PCBA service

The RoHS 2 Directive 2011/65/EU must be transposed into national laws by 2nd January 2013.

ACME PCB Assembly ready for RoHS 2

ACME PCB Assembly ready for RoHS 2

Directive 2011/65/EU entered into force on 21st 2011 and requires the Member States to transpose the provisions into their respective national law by 2nd January 2013. The RoHS 2 Directive is part of the European Union’s horizontal waste management legislation.

The RoHS 2 Directive is part of the European Union’s horizontal waste management legislation. As we know, the RoHS 1 Directive is for 2002/95/EC. On the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electronic and electrical equipment (EEE). The Directive 2011/65/EU is reffed to as RoHS 2.

RoHS and REACH are two different acts with different scopes and objectives. When overlaps occur, the strongest restriction should be applied.

ACME PCB Assembly provides RoHS 2 Directive assembly service in Carson, California. and Our PCB Suppliers to ACME PCB Assembly conform with RoHS 2 Directive.

How do you know if RoHS 2 applies to your products? if your product not EEE, or out of scope, provisions of RoHS 2 don’t apply, you don’t need to worry about it. By the way, automated integrated circuit board and printed circuit board (bare board) testers, CNC lathes, bridge-type milling and drilling machines, metal forming presses, they all benefit from an exclusion. The list below is the EU RoHS 2 Directive Exemptions to RoHS 2

A total of 16 new exemptions, primarily for specific medical devices applications have been added to the EU RoHS 2 Directive 2011/65/EU.

  • 2014/1/EU Exemption for lead as an alloying element for bearings and wear surfaces in medical equipment exposed to ionizing radiation
  • 2014/2/EU Exemption for cadmium in phosphor coatings in image intensifiers for X-ray images until 31 December 2019 and in spare parts for X-ray systems placed on the EU market before 1 January 2020
  • 2014/3/EU Exemption for lead acetate marker for use in stereotactic head frames for use with Computed Tomography and MRI and in positioning systems for gamma beam and particle therapy equipment
  • 2014/4/EU Exemption for lead enabling vacuum-tight connections between aluminum and steel in X-ray image intensifiers
  • 2014/5/EU Exemption for lead in solders on printed circuit boards, termination coatings of electrical and electronic components and coatings of printed circuit boards, solders for connecting wires and cables, solders connecting transducers and sensors that are used durably at a temperature below – 20 °C under normal operating and storage conditions
  • 2014/6/EU Exemption for lead in the surface coatings of pin connector systems requiring non-magnetic connectors which are used durably at a temperature below – 20 °C under normal operating and storage conditions
  • 2014/7/EU Exemption for lead in solders, termination coatings of electrical and electronic components and printed circuit boards, connections of electrical wires, shields and enclosed connectors which are used (a) in magnetic fields within the sphere of 1 m radius around the isocentre of the magnet in medical magnetic resonance imaging equipment, including patient monitors designed to be used within this sphere, or (b) in magnetic fields within 1 m distance from the external surfaces of cyclotron magnets, magnets for beam transport and beam direction control applied for particle therapy
  • 2014/8/EU Exemption for lead in solders for mounting cadmium tellurium and cadmium zinc tellurium digital array detectors to printed circuit boards
  • 2014/9/EU Exemption for lead and cadmium in metallic bonds creating superconducting magnetic circuits in MRI, SQUID, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance or Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometer detectors
  • 2014/10/EU Exemption for lead in alloys, as a superconductor or thermal conductor, in medical devices (category 8) and/or in industrial monitoring and control instruments
  • 2014/11/EU Exemption for hexavalent chromium in alkali dispensers used to create photocathodes in X-ray image intensifiers until 31 December 2019 and in spare parts for X-ray systems placed on the EU market before 1 January 2020
  • 2014/12/EU Exemption for lead in solders on printed circuit boards of detectors and data acquisition units for Positron Emission Tomographs which are integrated into Magnetic Resonance Imaging equipment
  • 2014/13/EU Exemption for lead in solders on populated printed circuit boards used in Directive 93/42/EEC class IIa and IIb mobile medical devices other than portable emergency defibrillators
  • 2014/14/EU Exemption for 3,5 mg mercury per lamp in single capped compact fluorescent lamps for general lighting purposes < 30 W with a lifetime equal to or above 20000 h
  • 2014/15/EU Exemption for lead, cadmium and chromium in reused spare parts, recovered from medical devices placed on the market before 22 July 2014 and used in category 8 equipment placed on the market before 22 July 2021, provided that reuse takes place in audible closed loop business-to-business return systems, and that the reuse of parts is notified to the consumer
  • 2014/16/EU Exemption for lead as an activator in the fluorescent powder of discharge lamps when used for extracorporeal photopheresis lamps containing BSP phosphors

 

 

PCB Assembly service in Los Angeles

Offshore Support Chain Services

ACME PCB Assembly add new service in offshore as below service. If you need many other services to support your supply chain and your printed circuit board assembly.

  • Chip-on-board bonding service.
  •  Plastic Injection.
  • Range of force is 80 ~ 600 Ton
    • Use either pieces of raw plastic or powder.
    • Making tooling, molding for
    • CNC Turret Press punching.
      • 10 ~ 200 tons.
      • Die Casting.
      • Ultrasonic welding
      • Silk-screening, pad-printing, painting and powder coating with spectrophotometer inspection.
      • Enclosure
      • Metal Stamping.

for more information about our offshore support chain, please call 310-715-1898

We want to be your assembly resource for prototype Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA). Our certified IPC trainer in house to make sure that ACME PCB Assembly will do the quality prototype board build. We can handle prototype board build by hand from 1 piece though 50 pieces. We can also can handle your prototype PCB assembly from 1 piece prototype to 10,000 pieces production run through our FUJI SMT pick and place line. ACME capable to install as small package as 01005, and 4mil ball BGA to large components as 5cm to 5cm BGA parts. assembly the PCB layer from 2 layers to 32 layers.

Contact us for more information.

Made in CA

PCB Assembly: Domestic VS Foreign

Domestic PCB assembly houses are a much better alternative to foreign contract manufacturers. Domestic PCB assembly firms have a multitude of benefits.

• Key advantages include better quality assurance as well as the confidentiality of your intellectual property. Quality comes into question when outsourcing printed circuit board assembly as the firms located overseas may not have proper qualifications to handle your product. There is a growing problem of IPs being appropriated by non-legitimate organizations overseas, and one surefire way to minimize that risk is to find a trustworthy, reliable, and IPC A-610 certified company like ACME PCB Assembly to build your products.

• By outsourcing work overseas, one is typically trying to lower the cost of labor. However, lowering the cost of labor by outsourcing overseas can incur higher transportation costs. Outsourcing PCB assembly overseas is only viable in very few situations. A firm would need a product that has high volume runs with longer lead times and repeat jobs to even consider this method. Any other job, from prototyping to batch production, are better off done domestically as quality would remain the focus.

• Another advantage is that it would be significantly easier to communicate domestically as opposed to abroad. There are twenty-four time zones across the globe, and keeping track of which vendor or customer is in working hours could be a hassle to deal with. Language barriers are also an obstacle while outsourcing to businesses. Although many countries around the globe speak English, people with lower proficiencies could cause issues in communication and result in misunderstandings.

Call 310-715-1898 or email steve@acme-pcbassembly.com for a free quote.

Go to https://boardassembly.com for more information about ACME PCB Assembly and the services we provide.

Box Build

ACME Provides Quick Turnaround Service Time on Prototype Assembly Service

ACME PCB Assembly provides a quick turnaround time on all PCB prototype assembly service. There is no order too small, we offer 1-piece board with 1-day assembly lead time. ACME guarantees an on-time delivery of rapid PCB assembly service.

ACME PCB Assembly does not involve itself with ITAR project, therefore, we are more flexible on PCB Assembly for prototyping, small run productions, and medium quantity sets of PCB assembly with much affordable assembly cost. We can process several dozens of different products weekly. ACME PCB Assembly is aimed on small to medium volume assembly and specializes on low volume high mix boards.

Our technical capabilities can cover machine placed SMT components as small as 01005, fine-pitch BGA, QFN board.  We have earned the good recommendations from our customers through the excellent services we have provided.

Wesley Dwelly – Dec. 2019

Printed Circuit Board FabricationI am the CTO at VAWD APPLIED SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY. We have worked with ACME PCB on several projects. The PCB’s include, thru-hole and surface mount components ranging from power connectors to high density FPGAs with large pin count BGAs along with very fine pitch connectors and QFN’s. Their work has always been high quality and flawless. ACME is more like a design partner than an assembly house. ACME performs a detailed pre-assembly inspection that has saved us lots of money and time by finding footprint and part number issues that would have created costly rework or even scraping the PCB’s. This partnership is critical for efficient circuit board development and we highly recommend ACME PCB for even the most complex designs.

Timothy Jones – Oct. 2019

ACME recently built 25 sets of 3 different board designs for me. All were lead free. One had surface mount components on both sides. Some components were fine pitch QFN packages. ACME also supplied the PCBs from our original design files. This was our first post prototype production. The result was zero defects and zero problems of any note. On top of that, Stephen, Alice, and others at ACME were pleasant to deal with, timely, and very responsive. I sincerely appreciate your high-quality service. Thank you very much.

Reid Harrison – July 2019

I have used Acme for over four years, and they have done outstanding work for us on challenging projects. Their technical ability and quality control are top notch, and they really take the time to respond to customers’ needs. Very professional, and high-quality work with no missed deadlines, in my experience.