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?

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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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