SMTA Upper Midwest Chapter - Designing Flexible Circuits with Successful Assembly in Mind

Category

Conferences

Date:

Thu, January 17, 2019

Location:

Tin Whiskers Brewing, St Paul, Minnesota

Description:

Flexible circuits were originally designed as replacements for traditional wire harnesses.From the beginnings to the present, growth and proliferation of flexible circuit applications in all industries has increased rapidly.  Today flexible circuits can be found in all manner of devices, products, and industries across the globe.  Along with the growth of flexible circuits, the complexity of the flexible circuits and their assembly has also increased dramatically, as well as the tools, materials, and processes used in performing their component assembly.  As assembly complexity increases, new methods must be developed to deal with special material and processing considerations of working with flexible circuits.  It becomes critical to overcome these issues by designing in assembly capabilities.

What we will cover: 

  • A brief history of flexible circuits, with emphasis on design criteria for assembly
  • Several case studies of challenging flexible circuit design applications
  • An overview of flexible circuit design considerations for modern SMT assembly

Presenter: Clark is an Applications Engineer with All Flex Flexible Circuits & Heaters, primarily supporting customers in their designs to improve reliability and ensure that the final products will perform as needed.  Clark has been in circuit manufacturing industry for 53 years, working in Materials Development for flexible circuits, Product Fabrication testing for both flexible and rigid circuits, and Applications Engineering for many specialized customers, designs, and products.  Clark has excelled at and enjoyed working on difficult projects with customers to find solutions for challenging designs and applications.  Clark is a member of the IPC Flex Circuits Committees, holds three patents on flexible and rigid circuit designs, and has a wealth of knowledge of all aspects of the supply chain.  Clark’s one resounding failure to date in his last 12 years (working with All Flex) has been his inability to retire from the manufacturing industry.  
 

Url:

https://smta.org/chapters/chapters_detail.cfm?chapter_id=1

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