Kingston Factory Tour in Fountain Valley, CA, USA
Putting the Components
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Next the components are added to the PCB in a process called pick-and-place. Kingston uses two steps for this process. First, a machine install small components like capacitors on the memory modules. Then the panel goes to another machine were the memory chips are installed.
Figure 8: Panels exiting the machine that applied the solder paste and entering the machine that installs the small components.
Figure 9: This machine is installing small components like resistors and capacitors.
Figure 10: These machines are installing the memory chips.
After the components are added to the memory module, the modules go to an oven where the solder paste is melted, thus soldering the components. The set of insertion machine plus the oven is what is called “line”.
Figure 11: Oven.
Figure 12: A panel coming out of the oven.
