Surface mount circuit board fasteners for automated pick and place assembly operations

General pick-and-place (pick-and-place) assembly operations use board fasteners that provide OEMs and contract manufacturers with greater benefits than perforated or perforated fasteners, including: part handling Faster assembly, improved product quality and yield, no risk of loose parts and loss or mixing, no need to manually install parts slowly.

Traditional perforated fasteners have several limitations and challenges. Designers must ensure that the fasteners can be easily mounted to the board and allowed to be manually installed by the operator during assembly work. In addition, the punctured fasteners supplied to the board are usually loose parts, increasing the complexity before assembly and work. Placing loose parts can cause some devices to be lost or mixed with other loose parts.

The use of surface mount fasteners packaged on the reel reduces the need for manual mounting of the fastener to the board. Moreover, the fastener can be transformed into another part that is attached to the pick-and-place assembly work and the reflow operation. For the design engineer this represents a more flexible way of placing the fasteners and also ensures that the fasteners can be placed and welded in the same high quality. Unlike perforated or perforated mountings, which are non-intrusively mounted to the board, there is no risk of cracking the board and the fasteners can be placed closer to the edge of the board.