Offering hands-on support for industrial challenges

Visitors to the show will be able to watch experts rework boards featuring area array, fine pitch, underfill and conformally coated boards and ask for advice on their own repair challenge. 

“Our latest Experience feature area will provide procedures and practical hands support for your biggest challenges in a real live environment plus the opportunity to win IPC standards and guidance documents,” commented training provider Bob Willis, “We have been organising special features areas for many years but at National Electronics Week this is the first based on rework, repair, optical and x-ray Inspection.”

Special attractions in the latest Experience feature area include:

Chance to participate in one of the world’s first rework competition and raise your company profile. Win IPC standards and training materials on rework. Step by step presentations on rework process. Meet world class training providers. Solve your component and PCB failures. Exchange ideas, solutions and rework tricks of the trade.

National Physical Laboratory (NPL) Defect Database Live

The Experience feature will also include ‘NPL Defect Database Live’ where visitors will be able to acquire free process support on component and PCB defects and field failures. Images of defects can be sent in prior to the show or boards can be brought in for discussion with the team of experts. Send defect images in advance to Bob Willis - bob@bobwillis.co.uk.

Pre-Show Experience Webinar

Prior to the exhibition a free to attend pre-event webinar will take place. This will cover all aspects of rework and repair and the reasons for on-site or field failures. In addition, it will introduce the rework challenge and how staff can participate plus show feature activity. The webinar will be held on Tuesday 22nd March at 2.30pm. To register for the webinar Click Here.

Hands on Rework Challenge Competition

Participants in the rework challenge competition will have to assemble area array devices and fine pitch packages, and remove the packages from the board. Participants will see information on the board type and components in advance. They can bring their own small hand tools if they wish. The boards will be examined by a third party IPC Master Instructor and will be designed to allow inspection or electrical test during the Experience feature. There will be special prizes for the winners.

In addition, visitors may have the opportunity to remove and replace some areas of conformal coating, component underfill, then inspect the boards and joints to IPC standards.

Call for Supplier Company Participation
Types of companies invited to the Experience include:

IR rework equipment
Convection rework equipment
Conformal coating rework station
One optical area array inspection system
One X-Ray supplier
One PCB supplier
Component suppliers
IPC Training providers
Component/PCB MSD storage
Rework stencil suppliers
Conformal coating suppliers
Solder paste/flux suppliers
Solder spheres for BGA rework
Re-balling process and equipment
Stencil printer suppliers
Ultra sound inspection
Manual Cleaning equipment supplier
Cleaning materials
Hand tools and extraction systems