IPC Class 3 Assembly
Like most of our customers and the
electronics industry at large, we have adopted the IPC quality
standards as our default quality standards.
Most of our customers have set
Class 2 as their acceptable level whilst others primarily in the
Aerospace, Medical and Defence industries specify Class 3.
As you would expect, we have an IPC
trained expert and a Six Sigma Blackbelt who not only train our own
staff, but are on hand to advise us on process parameters so that
we can achieve the highest levels of quality.
Although the solder and fluxes we
use throughout our manufacturing are perfect for most of our
customers, we will also use high reliability solder (which is
rather more expensive!) for those very special jobs that not only
require IPC Class 3, but may also face harsh conditions.