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December 5, 2018
Life in Production
Life in Production
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This month, we’re looking at what life is like in our Production department.

  • Production Team Size: 7
  • Average Lead Time: 4 to 6 Weeks
  • Batch sizes: Between 20 and 2000-off

Overview 

Production is always producing a noise! Whether it’s the tape gun sealing a box, the ultrasonic cleaning PCBs and 3D parts, or the sound of two pick and place machines placing 1000s of components an hour. And if for some strange reason none of that is happening, you can always count on the radio belting out a tune!

All manufacturing at Cubik Innovation is carried out within our ESD safe environment by one of our IPC certified specialist production engineers and always in line with our ISO 9001:2015 systems and IPC-A-610E standards. Our production team have a vast set of disciplines under their belts, each of them with a specific skillset and learning from one another through our in-house training programme.

Ordering and booking in

In a typical month, production will order and book in 1000’s of unique parts. The parts are marked up with designators and put into a kit or carousel ready for our production engineers to start the build.

Build

We build batches of boards on our pick and place machines. First, they are pasted on our stencil printer before being put on the pick and place machine where the surface mount components are placed. The PCB is then re-flowed in a reflow oven. Once complete, the surface mount components are inspected, and the through-hole components are added. Each PCB is subjected to rigorous testing and inspection before being packaged and dispatched to our customer.

Final inspection

All PCB’s that we build get a full inspection before they are dispatched. For smaller quantities, our production engineers carry out a thorough manual inspection under a microscope. For larger quantities we use an A.O.I (automated optical inspection) machine. 

Testing, quality assurance and shipping

All PCBs are subjected to several semi-automated tests by our test engineers who have a passion for programming, testing and fault finding. For peace of mind, we quality assure every item before it is shipped to ensure nothing has been damaged during the manufacturing process. The PCB is then carefully packaged into either the PCB enclosure or into a static shielding bag. Only then can the boards leave our ESD safe area.

Contact with the customer

Whilst our Production team have limited interaction with customers some of our customers prefer a hands-on approach and collect their finished product in person. We often get customers popping in to see our facility and check progress throughout the build process.

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