Digital Microscopes for Enhanced Inspection of Defects in Printed Circuit Boards

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Visual inspection expert, TAGARNO is now providing digital microscopes for enhanced inspections of printed circuit boards (PCBs). Since the microscopes are used frequently and are often shared among multiple departments, they tend to offer high factory utilization rates. A digital microscope also allows capturing digital images, creating quick image viewing, capturing and sharing capabilities, creating better communications and enhancing cooperation between employees and across the entire organization.

Preventing mistakes or defects in manufactured products and avoiding problems when delivering solutions or services to customers are natural concerns to EMS providers. Digital microscopes integrated as part of the Quality Assurance in production and R&D departments can often play an important role to clear these concerns. When inspecting bare solder boards, connectors or other components, digital microscopes allow the operator to zoom in on the product to either proof quality or to detect mistakes and defects and thereby change the production setup, preventing errors to continue.

By adding digital documentation possibilities, the user is also able to provide sufficient documentation material to customers and own documentation process. Furthermore, adding measurement and verification apps to the digital microscope enables the operator to further improve and ensure quality by measuring and validating the product.

Quality Assurance using a digital microscope could also be used by R&D engineers who need to inspect a prototype of a board manually, since there is currently no procedure to inspect it automatically. This process is also called First Article Inspection (FAI) and is crucial to prevent quality issues later on when the product hits production and thereby the damage is far less comprehensive.

Click here for Tagarno's portfolio of Digital Microscopes.