IET evening visit organised by the IET Berkshire network on the 14th of September was on the topic "What’s new in PCB manufacturing and electronic assembly” and consisted of a factory tour hosted at Newbury Electronics Ltd. by Philip King, owner & Managing Director. The tour started ~19:30 on 14/09/2017 at Newbury Electronics Ltd, Faraday road, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2AD. Some 20 visitors attended the tour which lasted about 2 ½ hours with refreshments and took rather longer than expected because of the fascination shown by the visitors and all their questions.

 

Featured demonstrations and explanations on laser drilling of micro-vias, inkjet legend printing, photomechanical laser direct imaging, flying probe electrical test, 3D AOI, robotic soldering, laser cut solder paste screen manufacture, fine pitch smd pick & place line operation, automated first article inspection, x-ray inspection.

 

Martin Wren-Hilton, Director of Wireless Innovation for TalkTalk and one of the visiting members of the IET said after the event,  “Thank you for opening your doors last night and showing us round your marvellous PCB fabrication facility.  I learnt a lot! Should I be in need of PCBs, I certainly know where to come.”

 

Philip King said  “The evening was a great success, enjoyed by visitors and staff alike. The array of our sophisticated equipment used to make and assemble PCBs seemed to amaze our guests. We had to cut short many of the demonstrations to keep to our time schedule and to stop over-running too much.  We will certainly do more evening tours, but only after  a few month’s breather.”



Organiser: Dr.Abhaya Sumanasena

Chairman, IET Berkshire Network.