Truth Electronic Manufacturing - Electronics Buyers' Guide (EBG)

Section - Industrial electronics & equipment
–+ Industrial electronics & equipment
-Bar code markers/readers
-Counters
- Electromechanical
- Electronic
Section - Production services & equipment
–+ Contract electronics manufacturing (CEM) & assembly services
-Equipment assembly
- Testing - environmental (heat, humidity etc)
- Wire harness production
-PCB assembly services
- Coil, transformer winding
- Component potting
- Component preparation
- Conformal coating
- Depanelling
- Functional testing
- SMT board assembly
-Production quantities
- Preproduction (5-50)
- Production (10-500)
- Prototypes (1-10)
- Volume (150 up)
–+ Equipment for electronics assembly
-Assembly line furniture
- Carousels
- Conveyors, production line
- Magazine loaders/unloaders
- Static protection - anti-static liquid
- Static protection - clothing
- Static protection - floor treatments
- Static protection - flooring/mats
- Static protection - heel grounders
- Static protection - ionisers
- Static protection - warning signs/labels
- Static protection - work surfaces
- Static protection - wrist bands
-Board loading
- Assembly jigs & fixtures
- Assembly station magnifying viewers
- Automatic small parts feeders
- Guided manual compound insertion
- Lead cropping & clinching
- SMD placement machines - automatic entry-level
- SMD placement machines - high volume
- SMD placement machines - manual/semi-automatic
- SMD placement machines - medium volume
- Through-hole component insertion machines
-Board preparation
- Manual adhesive dispensers
- Screen printing machines
-Cleaning machines
- Aqueous
- Batch
- In-line
- Semi-aqueous
- Solvent
- Solvent dispensers
- Spot cleaning
- Squeegee blades
- Ultrasonic
- Ultrasonic/option
-Component preparation
- Component counters
- Component handlers
- Component marking
- Lead cutting & trimming
- Lead forming & bending
- Lead tinning
- Tape & reel equipment
-Finishing
- Conformal coating/curing
- Depanelling - mechanical
- Depanelling - scoring
-Identification systems
- Bar code labelling
-Reflow soldering
- Hot air/gas convection
- Hot plate conjunction
- Inert atmosphere
- Infrared
- Vapour-phase
-Solder fume extractors
-Soldering/rework stations
-Soldering
- Foaming fluxers
- Manual fluxing trays
- Solder pots, baths
- Soldering machines - inert atmosphere
- Soldering machines - multiple jet
- Soldering machines - wave
- Spray fluxers
- Tape application equipment
-Storage
- board carriers, racks
- Component carrier trays
- Protective packaging - clean room packaging
- Protective packaging - conductive bags
- Protective packaging - conductive foam
- Protective packaging - desiccant bags
- Protective packaging - dissipative bags/tubing
- Protective packaging - dissipative foam
- Protective packaging - humidity indicator cards
- Protective packaging - static shielding bags
- Sorting & storage bins
-Test equipment
- Ground check testers
- Static locators
- Surface resistivity meters
-Training
- Soldering, reworking
–+ Hand tools for assembly & repair
-Cable termination/connection
- Cable & wire strippers
- Crimping tools
- Wire cutters
-Soldering/desoldering
- Desoldering irons & bits
- Flux dispensers
- Gas-heated portable irons
- Hot air desoldering tools
- Hot air soldering tools
- Reflow soldering plates
- Solder dispensers
- Solder fume extraction
- Solder suckers
- Soldering bit cleaners
- Soldering iron holders
- Soldering irons & bits
- Soldering stations
- Ultrasonic soldering irons
-Specialised tools for electronics
- Component handling tools - component prying devices
- Component handling tools - extraction tweezers
- Component handling tools - IC extraction tools
- Component handling tools - IC insertion tools
- Component handling tools - tipping tweezers
- Component handling tools - vacuum 'tweezers' (SMD)
- Component lead cropper
- General purpose tweezers
- Inspection mirrors, endoscopes
- PCB vices
- Pliers - bent nosed
- Pliers - flat, long nosed
- Pliers - half-round, long nosed
- Pliers - lead forming
- Pliers - round nosed
- Screwdrivers - mains powered
- Side cutters
–+ PCB production
-Edge profiling - CNC-routed
-Edge profiling - guillotined
-Edge profiling - V-scribed
-Inspection & testing - electrical testing
-Production quantities
- Preproduction (5-50)
- Production (10-500)
- Prototypes (1-10)
- Volume (150 up)
-Surface mount technology
–+ Printed circuit manufacturing equipment
-Automatic board handling equipment
- Loaders
- Stackers
-Hot-tinning equipment
- Hot-air levellers
- Solder reflowers
–+ Production materials & consumables
-Adhesives
- SMT
-Cleaning agents
- Alcohol based
- Aqueous
- Saponifiers
- Solvents
-Coatings
- Antistatic
- Conformal
-Flux solvents
-Fluxes
- No-clean
- Water soluble
-Insulating materials , tapes
-Screen printing
- Squeegees
-Solder masks, temporary
- Peelable materials
- Tab protectors, removable
- Tape
- Water soluble
-Solder paste
- No-clean
- Water-soluble
-Soldering materials
- Bulk solder sticks, bars
- Dross-reducing agents
- Vapour phase liquids
–+ Test & inspection, repair & recycling, kitting & packaging
-Burn-in systems
-Hydrometers, flux
-Manufacturing defects analysers
-Microscopes
-PCB inspection
- Automatic optical/video comparators
- Optical magnifiers
- X-ray imaging
-PCB testing
- Sprung test probes
-Static protection testing
-Test chambers (environmental)
-Torque tester, screwdrivers
-Viscometers (paste)
-Wiring analysers/harness testers
Section - Test & maintenance
–+ Laboratory test & measurement equipment
-Data loggers/recorders
-Function generators
-Oscilloscopes
- A+D
-Power supplies, bench
-Pulse generators
-Test leads, probes
-Voltmeters
- AC (Av, rms, pk)
- DC
- Selective