Inside a PCB Soldering Factory - in China
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มิ.ย. 2019
- Today we're taking an in-depth factory tour of the PCBWay (pcbway.com/strangeparts) PCB assembly factory in Shenzhen, China, to see how the professionals solder circuit boards, step-by-step. Are you an electronics geek or a DIY enthusiast that loves soldering projects that's always wondered how the big factories solder PCBs with pick and place machines and reflow ovens? Today we're going to see how it's made!
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Supper excited that Scotty came to our factory to shoot such a detailed and informative video, which not only can satisfy people's curiosity about PCB assembly process, but is also very entertaining to watch. It owes to the earnest working attitude and unique sense of humor of Strangeparts.
Really enjoy watching it, as an audience.
Thank you Scotty for making this video and thank you all the PCBWayers for sharing your love here :)
greetings from brazil
Marvelous work! Fascinating video.
Awesome facility.
You're doing really cool things! Thanks for making this video live.
really cool factory
Thank you PCBway for allowing this video and thank you scotty for taking the time to visit the factory.
Maybe PCBway has been thankful 💵 to Scotty. 😉
@@Conservator. yes, he stated at the beginning that the video was sponsored by pcbway.
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sithon sithon It’s pretty obvious advertising but that works great for a channel like Strange Parts. I‘ve ordered PCBs before and I‘m seriously considering PCBway for my next project.
Could look at JLCpcb after you have a look at PCBway.
Being 64, its amazing how far electronics has come in only 50 years.
remember tubes?
@@johnstreet819 Very well.
Respect
What might surprise you, then, is that automated circuit board assembly was in wide use in the 1970s, and was already surprisingly fast. There were experiments in fully-automated circuit production in the 1940s! Industrial automation goes back much farther than many people realize.
@@tookitogo It doesn't surprise me. My mother was a electronics technician from when she started for Bendix radio in the 40s and then Westinghouse aerospace till she retired in 1985. I know all about it. She worked on the cameras that went to moon. she also worked on the awacs radar for the Navy the main thing Westinghouse did a I am going to assume they still do this to this day.
I did a high voltage board with PCBway. They had no problem with the many isolation slots cut into the board and didn't even charge extra. That's quite unusual.
Building bridges and educating us all. In contentious times you are bringing in China’s Manufacturing Might without bias, or controversy.
Be your upbeat mood invite you on other places.
You should have a Cable TV Chanel dude.
Antonio Costa totally AGREE!
I suspect he may get more viewers and income from TH-cam than from cable.
Who cares with TV anymore? I don't have a TV subscription for 5 years now, and I didn't miss anything so far.
As a viewer, this is a better format, better quality, less stupid ads... As a content producer, you can reach the whole world, while on TV you probably could reach a specific society at best.
This is a channel.
Yes, connect with someone cable content channel providers, and contract with them for "strange parts" just like discovery science channel.
Typical TH-camrs: sponsored by Skillshare and Audible.
Strange Parts: sponsored by a PCB assembly company.
Yeah, that's par for the course for the channel. Great video!
Do you know JLCpcb ? There's a lot of youtubers sponsored by them too
@@Zigma72 +
PCB manufacturers are actually great about sponsoring content creators because of how hard the competition is between them and how similar the services offered are.
@@CodeandSolder Especially once you have hit that quality assurance level where error margins are really tight, and managed to bring your service cost down to the lowest manageable point possible, there really isn't much you can do to differentiate. So it mostly becomes a matter of creating awareness of your services.
you forgot NordVPN
You are personalising the process here, Scotty. This should have been done years ago. Giving us more stories of the people involved in the process is a fantastic way to connect and be social with the people involved in building electronics. Well done sir. Well done :)
That’s PCBWay? That’s awesome. Used them for a project in the past and was very impressed with the results. Thanks for the tour-very cool!
this type of your videos are the best. I imagine this takes quite a lot more effort than usual, but please do moar
Completely agree, great production value and interesting subject matter.
Yes, I really want to do more like this. We’re in the process of lining up a bunch of other cool factories, so stay tuned!
@@StrangeParts thank you. respect
Hi Scotty @ Strange Parts
I saw your vid on Production Schedules & Burn Out
❤ Your Vids by the way
If you are still looking for a Producer, I would like to recommend searching for the owner of YT Channel called
( Murphys Law ) by Arnold Aldridge.
My friend knew him sometime back. But I don't know if he's made himself a part of Hollywood yet so you can still try contacting him to see if he's available.
I think IMHO that even with 12 to 24 vids a year, you could still use Patreon , because its more than Quantity of Content, but more of Content Quality.
And from what I've seen, you do a pretty good job currently ❤👍👍👍
And you've got quite a few YT subscribers too 👍
What I'm really trying to say is that
No one needs to feel " strange " about using Patreon
By the way I don't work for them
Have A Great Week Scotty ❤
Yes. We need moar!
We rely upon what these factories turn out every day, we purchase it for incredibly cheap prices - Getting insight like this, just makes me appreciate more and more what an awesome age we live in.
I build PCBs for work so seeing this from an outside perspective is pretty cool. Also that factory looks crazy clean and tidy! You gained a new subscriber guys! Well done.
same
Ive been a HW Design Engineer since 1982, very different back then. This video is spot on. Watch for nostalgia reasons. It truly is amazing the mfg process of getting such tiny components or 1000 pin BGA's soldered correctly to the board. A near miracle that its done and repeated with 100% accuracy thousands fo times. As far as the people who do hand assembly, they are equally impressive. Soldering tiny little pins spaced a few thousands of an inch from each other and doing fast and accurately is an amazing talent. Where will we be 10 or 20 more years from now, we will be looking at this being and "old time" process.
Always look forward to watching your videos 👌🏻
Same, I always see them and want to watch them right away. But I rather get all my other stuff done first, so I can enjoy it without interruptions ;)
I absolutely love this factory tour, its hard to find someone on TH-cam that makes videos with this high quality and love :-)
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Nice work Scotty! I very much appreciate the quality and time you've spent to put this together for all us TH-cam watchers!
It's rare that a documentary host understands the other language when there's the need to have a conversation/explanation. Keep it up buddy!
your genuine enthusiasm takes something that is interesting and makes it thoroughly enjoyable as well
Scotty: Hey guys I need to do a tombstone effect.
Factory: Wah????
Factory: we don't get those problems more than once a year anymore but we will make one for TH-cam!
It mainly happens when your fixture inside your pick and place machine is loose, or the stand offs (board supports) aren’t adjusted correctly. Causing the components to bounce during placement. Mostly what happens is if the component is not equally anchored on both sides, it is drawn to the upright position from the tension of the solidifying solder paste.
@@Darthtard9 It can be more that just placement issues, if the solder melts unequally on the ends, the end that melts first pulls the part to that side due to surface tension.
Roobotics
Yes, true. That’s why I said mostly.
I’ve been working as a tech troubleshooting, repairing and working on SMT assembly lines and even through hole automatic assembly lines in the medical diagnostic industry for 20 years. Including wave solder, AOI, X-ray machines, CNC drillers and routers. Even PCB bare board fabrication process machinery and equipment
Heller, Sanyo, Koh Young, Universal, Hitachi, Yes-Tech, Phoenix, Speedline, pluritec, dynomotion and Excellon are just a few of the brands of equipment I work on regularly.
Great video. This is exactly the type of content I subscribed for.
I love how he shows it all.
From figuring stuff out for himself to seeing how others do it.
Figuring out how to do things single handedly, but mostly like how the big companies do but do them with huge machines for huge numbers.
Going nuts with even making a small flex pcb to put a microphone jack back into an iphone that doesn't have one.
Making custom cases.
And how the big boys do it. Machines, techniques.
But also showing that it is hard to do it right. The 'bumps and bruises', user error, and so on.
What you can do an 'unsanctioned' way.
All of it.
@@gabiballetje given how much he can accomplish with such limited resources, I wonder why it isn't a professional show. Imagine if all industries had a guy like him, looking through all the processes and technical difficulties. Surely it would be entertaining for all, but there would probably be people watching, who had solutions to some problems from other industries.
I work in automated visual inspection, and the idea of using color coded light might be useful in some circumstances, and we are always looking for new solutions for obscure problems.
@@kebakent About professional show, it should be, there should be such shows on many things.
It's becoming more and more cool to be smart all the time, nerdy and geeky is also becoming cool.
I often wonder why there isn;t more of this.
There are some great and well known influential educaters out there, but still, the effect is not really there yet, well, depending on the country. In the US i actually it's going downhill over all, except for the niche corner of smart people that is going up but is a minority.
@@kebakent I came across this video ( sorry in Chinese ) electronic repair business in Wenzhou, China, he fixed a Huawei p30 pro. Someone dropped the phone and he sent to one place but came back WiFI didn't work so he tried this place and as you can see this repairman did a fantastic job, he worked on the chip and motherboard instead of changing the parts, what he did was like an eye surgery, after this video his subscribers jump by the thousands within days. Amazing work, sorry only in Chinese no English subtitles. You can check it out if you are interested. th-cam.com/video/_bk7FIiMcw8/w-d-xo.html
Thumbs up...but I didn't click because at the time of my comment its "888" which is a very lucky number in China!
One of the best PCB Factory Tour ever!
Awesome, love plant tours and this one was awesome. Great work! And how nice are the people at PCBWay!
I use PCBWay for all my boards. They’re always perfect. Great company. Glad to see them here.
Reminded me of when I worked at Control Techniques ltd back in 1989. We used the manufacturing process, maybe the speeds of pick and place have increased and the methods use to inspect solder joints have changed a little. But on the whole pcb manufacturer hasn't changed a lot in all these years. I remember the staff placing through components by hand we used to call it "the add on section". I worked in the test and repair section where we had custom made machines (in house" ) that would power up and test functionality of each circuit board. I started out testing and repairing their "INBP Boards". Then moved to repairing the boards that had failed inspection from one of the multi million pound machines that was capable of testing many types of board. This video gave me a good trip down memory lane, and it was fascinating to see that some tech still hasn't changed in all those years.
This is awesome content. Production quality looks like it's going up too. Congrats and can't wait to see more stuff from Strange Parts!
I am so thrilled to find out how these components are inserted into the pcbs. Thank you so much for this great video!
I work at a similar factory here in Portugal, we provide for the auto industry, some of our machines can place as much as 140k components an hour! Awesome video!
lolwut company name
Há fabricas de carros em portugal?
@@luizmatthew1019 it looks like it......... 😂
@@luizmatthew1019 Como disse no comentário, fábrica semelhante à do vídeo, ou seja, montagem de PCB's, no "meu" caso, para a indústria automóvel, abraço.
140k cph is too much for one machine, what machine do you have?
Thanks PCBway for letting us see this! I love how excited Scotty is to show this off to us. He is just as excited as we would be.
The quality of your content continues to get better and better. This was awesome!!
Excellent video, Scotty! It's easy to tell when you're in your comfort zone back in Shenzhen. You look so at ease interacting with the team! And your emotion and excitement definitely come through the camera. Thanks so much for the tour. Super high-quality a/v content as always.
you can't be named James Watts. ILLEGAL!!! 😘
oooh! fronk emoji!
I love these factory tours. Now I know why modern stuff is so difficult to repair.
They're made to be made once, intricately and quickly, like this. Not the best for repair where you want the opposite, careful inspection and diagnosis. But More can be done, even if they don't know whats going to fail later. Other times they do know and don't care cause of cost savings or can just avoid responsibility once it leaves their supply chain. But a lot of the time they don't even want us to believe it can be repaired. What can be done? Learn repair yourself. The consumer electronics industry is taking advantage of peoples ignorance and lack of education. The PCB makers are not as much to blame, as middlemen in the process. IMO it would be nice to get conformal coating (a basic level of waterproofing) as a more standard practice. Its optional, and since the OEMs who order the boards from these PCB companies and re-sell them to you in a finished product benefit from going without it (so you can buy a new one), they won't be forced to care. But we care when our stuff dies and it coulda been prevented for 12 cents. or 2 cents. Just my 2 cents. But i digress....
@@mrlithium69 Jayztwocents subscriber eh? But I digress...
@@mrlithium69 This information should be taught along side the shop class in high schools. The idea that it's just coding jobs for the future is foolish. We need to be able to repair products we buy. If you can't fix an item you own, you are paying full retail for a rental.
How are you gonna fix intricate SMD boards, c'mon man
@@ryccoh I do it every day. Many people do. Louis Rossmann is a good person to learn from here on You Tube. I like soldering and working under a microscope.
Wow! I am a customer of PCBWay. I used their assembly services and the result is really good. So nice to see inside of the factory. Thanks so much!
Hi Bernardo. Can you explain me a little further how you making your PCB(which software you are using), and how you sending them to PCBWay. Thank you.
@Milo Banks Thank you for your time Milo.
That was AWESOME. I didn't expect such detailed and well explained video on such a matter. It also amazes me the way that they do their QA, i have certainly changed my mind on chinese products long ago but this was well beyond anything i've known before. Great job Scotty and team!!!
Scotty, this video is incredible. The quality of your content increases with every new video!
The production quality of these videos keep improving every time you upload! Great job Scotty!
Perfect! This video is a Masterpiece! Scotty, you have made a flawless, specific, detailed, and correct video of the latest PCB assembly processes. There are many other videos out there, mostly from CMs (Contract Manufacturers) & TH-camrs, but they not well done, poorly shot, poorly lit, disorganized, incomplete, factually wrong, incomprehensible, etc., etc.
This video has so many little important details, that it should be watched 2 or 3 times to fully understand them all. Watching this and your previous video of how bare PCBs are made, provides a thorough education and insight of how PCBAs (PCB Assemblies, i.e. boards with the parts soldered on) are built and tested.
These two videos should be required viewing by every Electrical Engineer and student (AS, BS,MS & PhD). Especially from the last 20 years, most of whom have very little knowledge or understanding of how physical electronics products are made. Every “maker” and “doer”, especially on Kickstarter, should be compelled to watch this at least 10 times, take notes and pass a test!
Thank you and PCB Way for all the time and work for planning, writing, shooting and editing this video.
Your well recorded, clear voice and enunciating diction, makes this available and useful for all, including ESL foreign language native speakers.
Missing are: like, um, you know, um, searching for words, "Chinglish", explaining to your factory host what they are looking at (host = anyone there who speaks a little English).
FYI: I am an Electrical Engineer, who over the last 45 years, has designed and made hundreds of products and PCBAs, designed & built several PTH (Plated Through-Hole) and SMT assembly lines in several facilities and countries, and site inspected scores of electronic manufacturing plants in numerous countries.
TEN THUMBS UP! (that’s all I’ve got)
P.S. Thank you for helping me find “the way”. PCBWay! I have a few projects and now I am confident in having PCBWay make them.
I'm an Electronics Engineer of a similiar vintage and I cannot recommend PCBWay more highly. The prices are excellent and the quality is as good as it gets. I have no connection with them other than being a happy customer.
Superb video, great advert!
Have made a note of the company - I am developing some boards for a 3D-printer design. PCBway looks like the quality company I am looking for. Thank you. 👍
I have previously worked on SMT line for VIVO thanks for reminding me my first job as a reflow technician ...
Hands down the best electronics channel on TH-cam, TV or any platform. Amazing tour!!!!
The amount of precision is so cool. Thanks for another awesome video Scotty!!!
What a great video and cool factory! Love your work Strange Parts. Always good content and the delivery is fantastic.
I’ve always loved the engineering and advancements that constantly go into pick and place machines. Multi-headed PNPs are especially interesting.
The best and most informative electronics manufacturing factory tour I've ever seen
Oh my goodness... This is incredible. Great job explaining!! The quality on your videos get better and better. Thank you. Really enjoyed this tour.
I follow your channel for more then a year, and I so happy that you are adding subtitles for my language portuguese on your videos! Thank you very much!
Great video and excellent commentary. I work in the industry and felt like everything was explained in a very understandable way for even the layman to understand!
This is amazing, please do more of this in future
Stadia
that stadia logo lol
Hi mr. Stadia
Stadia will ruin gaming as we know it...
I've seen some factory tours on YT but yours stand out because of the enthusiasm you show. Keep up the great vids. I look forward to seeing more.
Awesome video Scotty! the Production value turned at 11 with this one! Looking forward to the next one!
Welcome back Scotty very illustrative video about PCB as usual thank you :)
Scotty your vids are a+. YT needs more quality material like this
Suggest you go check out GamersNexus - Has a lot of Shenzhen factory tours :)
Great video as always. Your production gets better and better. Keep up the awesome work!
I so enjoy watching these videos :) thank you for your continued hard work and contributions.
Very educational! More people should watch such kind of videos to appreciate how complex electronics are
You made my evening by uploading this video, your videos have always been inspiring for me
it's also evening here, where u from? I'm curious
PCBWay is soo coool omgggg. Love this
The best video, humanity on another level.......!
Good work Scotty
I really love his enthusiasm, I enjoyed all the explanation. It´s so much better than at college. Thank you!!
Love these behind the scenes Toure's.
And fyi for anyone who owns a factory like this. This kind of access is like a 20 minute ad for your company seen by millions of people. I'm personally working on a project and will be using serveral of the companies stranger parts has interviewed as I've been impressed with the factory them selfs.
Did you see the machine that scrubs the goddamn numbers off the chips ???
It's a feature a lot of clients ask for. Helps keep the "secrets of their product design" and yes, it's fk'n annoying when you want to repair something. Nothing worse than having to hook up a logic analyzer then spend hours figuring out exactly what something is, when in a sane world you could have just copied down a model number and known exactly what the chip is you needed to replace.
No where is it?
We'll life sucks
@@dylanpyle6500 sometimes
Gotta remove that Apple logo
looking forward to more factory tours! Great stuff man!
Thanks a lot man. Your videos are very interesting and your positive attitude and smile makes them more enjoyable.
Dude!!! Wow. I think you went full on geek overload in there.
Also please please please do a carbon fiber bike factory tour.
In reference to tombstoning.
It mainly happens when your fixture inside your pick and place machine is loose, or the stand offs (board supports) aren’t adjusted correctly. Causing the components to bounce during placement. Mostly what happens is if the component is not equally anchored on both sides, it is drawn to the upright position from the tension of the solidifying solder paste.
Loved it. This is why I love your channel/content, you explain and describe things so clearly. Awesome :)
Your content is AWESOME Scotty! Just sent you 10 BAT, keep up the good work!
Loved this video partly because I have done most of things at my workplace myself. Pick and place machine is awesome(yet a bit terrifying). We have used PCBway mainly for fabrication but it's good to know their CM services. Thanks for making this video.
I once ordered some boards on PCBway and it's so cool to see how there where made, thanks for bringing us this mini-documental ^^
Very well done tour. Reminds me documentary from big TV stations. So far at least for me the best one with the most interesting technology that I have not seen anywhere else.
love the video this is actually gonna help me with one of my school assignments. keep the high-quality content coming
I learn so much on this channel
me too
Whoa! Clicked faster than lightning.
Another beautiful informative video 👏👍
Absolutely Love the content! Keep up the amazing work.
Glad to see all the machines are still running XP
Awesome 👌👍👏👌 keep
Best factory tour ever ... Keep it up buddy ... You make high quality videos
Great video, please show more cool tech stuff from China !!! Very well done!!! Thanks
Incredible video, congrats! It was a real joy to my eyes and especially to my brain, thank you so much!
Huge respect for such a detailed explanation of the process. Priceless!
youtube recommended me your channel, they're so interesting. Great work!
4:35 Loving the little old CRT here :)
Along with the Windows XP and Windows 7! Feel like this factory is designed to take you back to the good ol' days
@@jthecoder that's pretty new, a lot of CNC machines I've worked on are still running DOS or Windows 98!
Love watching this kind of stuff and seeing how the various products are made. Good stuff bud
Thank you!
PCB Way 4 the win!
Say hello to Mr Chen from me and tell him they do a great jobb.
That’s a cool hat 😉
Love your videos man, keep up the good job!
Thank you PCBWay. Very much appreciated. Thank you Scotty and great production value. A+
Really cool video Scotty. This is the kind of stuff you never get to see otherwise. Thank you for your curiosity
2:47 when someone explains science to me and I wanna look professional.
It's some impressive comprehension and I want to hear him speak now
you're goddamn right
Play pretending
Yeah I LOL'd at him just nodding along like he understood Mandarin...
I love your videos man, greetings from argentina!
Very good.
The little machine with the 3 pins is ICT In Circuit Test.
There is an important test: JTAG which can be programmed to test pin by pin of the whole PCB.
Thank you.
Keep it up please, more of the electronic factory tours.
Dude...somewhere, the creator of how it's made just shed a tear of sheer appreciation
Really enjoyed this. I use pcbway for the pcb’s I build on my DIY pick and place machine, always been very helpful, they are on of the few pcb manufacturers that will accept a eagle cad file, no need to generate the gerber files. I can only do 300 parts on hour on my PnP, but beats hand placing them. I’m going to build a bed of nails to test my system, looks like old 3D printer parts will be handy.
I was really looking forward to the unicorns. Jokes aside. AWESOME video! Also, holy crap, that's gotta be one of the cleanest most well organized Chinese factories I've ever seen!
Great video Schotty, i've been wainting for a pcba factory video!!! Thank you
just amazing I love your channel 😍 i kept checking for new videos despite having the notification thing on XD
I use PCBWay for all my PCBs, really cool to see inside their factory. I've never tried assembly though...
I just was in a PCB assembly factory in Switzerland last week with my electrical engineering class. This video was very intresting to see the diffrences. Generaly, it's pretty much the same procss. I think the most obvious diffrence was that in the swiss factory there was even more automation going on and less manual labor. This makes sense as salaries in Switzerland probably are an order of magnitude higher.
Another big diffrence is that the swiss factory seems to be a really focused of customer support and has quite a few engineers helping the customer to improve the design of their bord for easier assembly, testing and better functionality. They added a lot of testpads on all boards to later test all the components after they have been soldered in. To do this they had two methods:
For boards in large quantities the custom build a testrig where you can put a board in. It has one of those spring loaded pins for every test pad. Every one is conected to a machine with hundrets of inputs. They then program the machine whitch pins it has to measure against each other and within what margins the result should be. If there is a microcontroller on the board they can also program in that way.The way cooler method is what they use for boards in smaller quantities. They have a robot with "flying probes". Basically a robot with like eight small probes that they can automatically stick on any place on the board and then measure a component. This happens with a crazy speed, the probes are really flying around. But it can easily take a couple of minutes for one board to be tested.
Flying probe machines are one of my favourite machines. PnP and Flying Probe being the top but AOI is nearly up there in the running.
Scotty didn't show it in this video but if you watch his video where he tours the JLC PCB factory you can see a lot of what you are talking about. They have a whole building full of people validating designs and he shows off one of their flying probe machines there. This video I think was more focused on soldering components onto the PCB than PCB fabrication.
Thank you Scotty. Great video! I love seeing things like this :)
Really appreciate you speaking to us with the staff in English. I know some of the other videos you would chat in Chinese, but this is really easy to follow. Thanks to Mr. Chen for playing along as you do the English dialog.
I use PCBWay all the time, best bang for the buck!
Always happy to see another Stange Parts video in my feed! The last PCB factory video was really interesting, hope this one is just as good
I will add also, PCBWay's technical sales team is excellent!
Back when I did my first ever board with them (a custom arduino-like device based around a SAMD micro-controller), they went out of their way to help me get my design in the correct format for production (AutoDesk Eagle missed one of the files they needed in its default export, and one of the components didn't have polarity indicated properly in the output files, IIRC). They were able to get me through the process to deliver a board that was exactly to what I had intended in my design.
This video is amazing Scotty! 10/10!!