Manufacturing at Sascal Displays
We operate from two secure sites in London, including a 13,000 sq. ft. clean manufacturing environment. Our production area is fully static controlled, including static dissipative flooring and the use of wrist straps, foot straps and dissipative workwear at all times. All facilities are controlled in line with ISO9001:2008 procedures.
Our process facilities include:
Surface Mount Pick & Place
- Twin placement heads with 2 vacuum tips each
- Intelligent Component Feeders
- Flexible component carrier tray for flat-packs/ ball grid arrays etc
- Automatic Vision System for PCB & component alignment
- Accuracy of placement better than 0.04mm
- PCB size up to 500mm x 400mm
- Component placement up to 4000/hour
- Offline programming & card data input
- Components down to 402
Surface Mount Reflow
- Vapour Phase technology
- Temperature profiling
- Infra-red pre-heating
- Rapid Cooling System
- 100% Inert Gas Atmosphere - no oxidisation
- No risk of insoldered joints (including BGAs)
- No risk of overheating (max 230°C)
- Wide range of applications: flexible circuits to thick densely populated multilayer PCBs - consistency without overheating
- Uniform temperature distribution across entire PCB
- No de-lamination of PCB material
- Inexpensive, safe solution without component stress
- Max board size 540mm x 340mm
Solder Paste Printing
- Computer controlled
- Laser-etched stainless steel stencils
- Automatic optical alignment to PCB
- Print accuracy of ± 0.02mm
- Allows fine pitch (0.4mm) printing without problems like solder bridging
- Screening size up to 500mm x 500mm
Thermal Testing
- Full thermal cycling using high specification climatic chambers
- Temperature range of -80°C to 180°C
Pre-Compliance EMC Testing
- Full pre-compliance testing for emissions, conduction and immunity
Vibration Testing
- Product vibration testing using high specification machinery
- Provides high degree of confidence for assembly
