What equipment is used by professional PCB manufacturers?

This month we plan to find a proper suppliers to produce PCB for our new products, a healthcare watch. One of our supplier assessment items is about production equipment, which I know few about them. Can you share some common equipment which professional factory may use?

September 19, 2023

Professional PCB manufacturers use following equipments

Drilling Machines
Multilayer Pressing machines for layer bonding
Multilayer Soft Plate for Drilling
De -burring to clean the drill dusts
Imaging line for Transferring the design to Copper laminate by photolithography
PTH Plating line with PLC for time control-based plating
Etch and strip line for removing unwanted copper and remove image films
Solder Masking line for protection screen Printing Coating
Hot Air Leveling [ HAL} for tin-lead soldering / OR Tin soldering for ROHS components
Bare Board Testing [BBT ], bed of nail testing or Flying probe systems
Quality control systems in several stages
Gold plating lines for sim, Edge connectors

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Oliver Smith

Oliver is an experienced electronics engineer skilled in PCB design, analog circuits, embedded systems, and prototyping. His deep knowledge spans schematic capture, firmware coding, simulation, layout, testing, and troubleshooting. Oliver excels at taking projects from concept to mass production using his electrical design talents and mechanical aptitude.

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