PCB manufacturing is a technology-intensive industry with high technical barriers.
Printed circuit boards are manufactured in a process that requires companies to be able to produce various types of PCB products (e.g. plating, etching, drilling, surface treatment, etc.). Any defects in the process will lead to a decrease in the yield of the final product,thus affecting the operation of the entire supply chain where the enterprise is located.
Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Smart Factory,How Intelligent?
As a global PCB manufacturing centre, China's PCB products used to be mainly single- and double-sided PCBs, multi-layer PCBs with less than 8 layers and low-end HDI PCBs. But with the development of 3C electronic products in recent years, thinner and shorter smart phones, Internet TV, wearable products and other smart products such as spring, directly promoting China's PCB industry to HDI and flexible printed circuit boards and other high-end PCB printed circuit board products to expand, and gradually achieve the overall transformation of the industry chain from low-end to high-end. At present, whether it is a large PCB printed circuit board manufacturers, or small and medium-sized PCB foundry, from the traditional factory to the smart factory, has become an inevitable transformation needs.
PCB Manufacturing
5G communications will be fully rolled out by 2020. With features such as large bandwidth, high reliability and low latency, 5G data transmission speed will be qualitatively improved. Among them, the smart factory is one of the important application scenarios of 5G technology, you can use the 5G network, seamless connection of production equipment, and further through the design, procurement, warehousing, logistics, etc., so that production is more flattened, customised, intelligent, and construct a future-oriented smart manufacturing network.
If the printed circuit board material is the first step in building a printed circuit board smart factory, will 5G communications become the key to open the PCB smart factory demand market?
With the rapid development of the industry, printed circuit board orders are increasingly concentrated in large companies with strong technological capabilities, manufacturing capabilities, and the ability to quickly provide customers with integrated solutions. However, due to the limitations of their own technological capabilities, the order volume of small-scale companies will decrease, resulting in smaller profit margins and increased market risks for new entrants to the industry.