Profiling platform safeguards quality control

Mark Stansfield, Managing Director of SolderStar explains: “The need for a more streamlined method for periodic profile capture was highlighted within our customer base, especially with today’s tight production volumes and the need to reduce development cycles. The DeltaProbe has been developed to help in this procedure, and offers a process control and intelligence that matches manufacturers more intricate and detailed production requirements, without the need to use fragile test boards for periodic profiling.

Installed to this process, capture device are specially designed measurement sensors where all process records are captured without a test card or wires getting in the way of the procedure. This makes it not only robust, but the appropriate tool to generate highly repeatable results, an important requirement in technology manufacture today.

DeltaProbe is fitted to an adjustable frame so it can easily be changed to the width of the PCB being measured, making it possible to simply ‘drop in’ during manufacture without the need to impact on production saving time and money.

Once the DeltaProbe has been passed through, a benchmark will be captured, what we refer to the ‘golden’ process profile. Then tolerance limits can be set around the temperature traces and process parameters, this ensures measurements are precise and any performance problems are flagged up across the whole PCB due to the separate sensors which capture the profile across the board. This make periodic testing of the oven more repeatable, convenient and user-friendly.