PCB News - What is the development trend of pcba processing industry?

What is the difference between PCBA and PCB? What development prospects does PCBA have? Let us take a closer look at the future development trend of the industry.

PCB is called printed circuit board in Chinese, or printed board for short. PCB is an indispensable part of the electronics industry. PCB has been applied to every kind of electronic equipment, such as small ones for calculators and electronic watches, large ones for computer communication electronic equipment, military weapon systems, as long as there are electronic components such as integrated circuits, in order to allow them to interact with each other. Even, PCB circuit boards must be used.

In the research process of larger electronic products, the most basic success factor is the design, documentation and manufacturing of the product's PCB printed board. The design and manufacturing quality of PCB printed boards directly affects the quality and cost of the entire product, and even leads to the success or failure of commercial competition. PCBA: PCBA=Printed Circuit Board Assembly, which means that the empty PCB board passes through SMT and then passes through the DIP plug-in board, which is called PCBA. The PCBA with the components already attached, only need to assemble the shell, debug the program, and a complete electronic product is already finished.

Since 2009, more and more electronic product manufacturers, in order to save the trouble of contacting smt patch manufacturers after purchasing PCBs, they usually make two choices: let PCB board manufacturers produce PCB Simultaneous smt chip processing of circuit boards, or let smt chip processing manufacturers replace the purchase of PCBs. In the two modes, the PCBA purchased by the electronic product manufacturer can be directly assembled and used to produce the finished product.

Generally speaking, the manufacturers of electronic products will choose the capable PCBA one-stop chip processing manufacturers, or choose the smt chip factory, let the smt chip factory purchase the PCB circuit board on its behalf. It is a very simple matter for smt patch manufacturers to purchase PCB circuit boards. They only need to ask customers to provide production drawings and production processes; and the PCB market price is becoming more and more transparent, and it is convenient to purchase. However, because PCB board manufacturers do not understand the products and prices of various components, it is difficult to contact the patch processing factory for patch production, and they can only focus all their attention on the production of PCB circuit boards. customer of.

Since 2021, PCB board manufacturers have gradually expanded their factories and increased PCBA generation processing lines while producing PCB circuit boards. This one-step approach has been recognized by many electronic product manufacturers. Of course, this approach has advantages and disadvantages. While the profit margins of sub-generation SMT manufacturers are increasing, the risks are also increasing at the same time. Mainly because it is necessary to purchase components for customers, the components required for each electronic product are also different, even if the same product, the design drawings are different, and the components used are different. If the type of components purchased is wrong, the board and components will be scrapped at the same time. It is also difficult to estimate the direct economic losses. The increase in manpower and material resources is also inevitable. Under the pressure of market competition, simultaneous processing of PCB and PCBA is also inevitable.