What do skilled assembly workers do in electronic manufacturing? Like many electronic manufacturing service (EMS) providers in the USA, Z-AXIS focuses on high-mix production and relies on a combination of automation and skilled manual labor to create products for our...
This Burn-In of Electronic Products and ESS Video shows how Z-AXIS finds and eliminates early failures of electronic components or PCBs. In this video we look at the role of burn-in in electronics design and manufacturing. When do electronic products fail? Watch the...
Electronic product design and development is a three-step process at Z-AXIS. Concept, feasibility, and electronic circuit design PCB layout through Gerber file creation Mechanical design for prototyping, testing and manufacturing The following sections describe each...
Investing in electronics equipment helps us to meet your needs. Here are some highlights of the equipment we recently added to our Rochester, New York facility to support high-mix SMT and PCBA manufacturing in the USA. A contract manufacturer has to constantly...
Watch how double-sided PCBAs (printed circuit board assemblies) are made. Normally, the first side is completed using the surface mount technology (SMT) process including robotic pick-and-place and solder reflow. How we handle the second side depends on many factors,...
Watch this SMT assembly, flux and board washing video and learn about water-soluble flux vs. no-clean flux, and why you might want to wash boards even if you use no-clean flux. In this video we look at solder flux and board cleaning processes for SMT assembly. This is... 
