Which parameters must be focussed on when evaluating the optimum soldering process?

When developing the best possible technical implementation for soldering tasks, the product with its given design and any possible design adaptations, the desired product quality, the existing and required automation concepts in production and the process quality are at the centre of our activities. As part of the evaluation of the soldering process, these parameters are analysed and discussed in detail with the customer in a design and product consultation.

Our EUTECT technical centre is equipped with all soldering process modules from our product range. Here we evaluate your and our processes in order to achieve the goals required by you or your customer or to make them even more efficient with newly developed solutions. This enables us to guarantee stable and efficient series production with the desired quality of results. For the evaluation, task-specific masks, nozzles and workpiece carriers which depict the later original series process and also create the initial conditions for later validation samples. We contribute our entire process expertise and years of experience.

After receiving the customer enquiry, we ask for important information that is necessary for the subsequent evaluation. This clearly defines which goals are to be achieved with the finished production solution:

• Number of units/year
• Number and type of components
• Drawings, pictures and/or samples of the assembly or connection partners to be soldered
• Cycle times, excluding handling times
• Cleanliness requirement of the assembly according to process
• Cleanliness requirements in production
• Inline or batch production
• Pad geometries
• Surface properties of the partners to be connected
• Possible flux specification
• Possible solder alloy specification

Much of this information about your product and your production are important parameters for us so that we can select or develop the right soldering process and the right machine configuration for you. Our solutions are specifically tailored to your production requirements and therefore also to your specifications relating to your end product, or have been developed for your product.