Materials and Fabrication Techniques in Printed Circuit Boards

Speaker/Tour Guide:          Louis Hart, Quality Assurance Manager, Compunetics

Date:                Thursday, March 12, 2009

Time:                Social 6:30 PM, Program 7:00 PM

Place:             Compunetics

RSVP:             Mey Sen, senml@ieee.org or 724-696-1611 by March 5, 2009

Organizers: Power & Energy Society/Industrial Applications Society.

Abstract: Almost every electrical or electronic device has at least one customized component – a

printed circuit board. A variety of substrate materials are in use by the PCB industry, to serve specific

user requirements. Manufacturing of PCBs is a complex enterprise, involving assorted metal plating

techniques, imaging of circuit patterns, lamination of multiple layers, along with mechanical processes

such as drilling and routing.

 

The tour will start with a video description of the PCB manufacturing process and materials involved.

Attendees will look at the internal structures of real circuit boards in cross-section and then see the

fabrication processes up close. Tour will conclude with a visit to the test and quality assurance labs.

 

DIRECTIONS TO COMPUNETICS

700 Seco Rd

Monroeville, PA 15146

 

CAUTION: Mapquest and the like put a misleading STAR at the junction of Seco and Eldo roads, in

the Business Park, to indicate 700 Seco. Do not go as far as that junction. Turn immediately to the

left into the parking lot after entering the Park – see directions below.

 

From Pittsburgh and West: Take I-376 East to the PA route 48 Plum exit. Proceed north on route 48

approximately 0.3 km through 1 traffic light and continue another 0.2 km to the entrance to

Monroeville Business Park on the right. Turn into the Park and make an immediate left. Compunetics

is located behind the first row of buildings on the right side of the parking lot behind them.

 

From East and the Turnpike: Take US route 22 west to PA route 48, approximately 100 m past the

point where the exit ramp debouches onto route 22. Turn right (north) on route 48. Proceed north on

route 48 approximately 0.4 km through 1 traffic light and continue another 0.2 km to the entrance to

Monroeville Business Park on the right. Turn into the Park and make an immediate left. Compunetics

is located behind the first row of buildings on the right side of the parking lot behind them.