A £3.6 Million pound expansion at Connor Solutions sees increase in production

Coventry, West Midlands -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/12/2013 -- North-East based Connor Solutions is investing £3.6 million as part of a three year expansion plan to extend its manufacturing site and increase its electronics production capabilities.

Established in 1999 as a buy out from Invensys, Connor has successfully built an international customer base in specialist low to medium volume electronic assembly.

Their recent purchase of a new Ersa Powerflow wave soldering line and Versaflow selective solder line from Blundell Production Equipment has helped to increase capacity and has resulted in significant quality and process control improvements.

The palletless finger conveyor wave soldering system has advanced features such as flux quantity monitoring and topside preheating. Connor have seen many benefits of the ERSA Powerflow which include improved process control and stability. This in turn has resulted in a reduction in solder defects and faster throughput. Production engineer David Southern says 'Soldering is one of the most critical operations in the production process and we have seen some big improvements in yields since we installed the Ersa machines. The Versaflow Selective soldering capability has also given us an excellent alternative option in the process to traditional manual soldering whilst maintaining repeatable Quality."

Connor Solutions business development director Steve Henderson says "This investment, along with others will allow us to forge ahead with our strategic plan for market growth in our arena of specialist electronic services"

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Blundell Production Equipment areas of expertise include SMT Placement machines, wave soldering, selective soldering and vapour phase soldering, PCB rework and inspection, fume extraction, low humidity storage and aqueous cleaning. For more information visit www.blundell.co.uk

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Convection reflow challenges are a thing of the past at Arrowvale thanks to vapour phase soldering

Coventry, West Midlands -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/12/2013 -- Electronic design and manufacturing services company Arrowvale Electronics faced a challenge when they were presented with some memory card PCB's with several fine pitch micro BGA's. When attempts to solder them in a convection reflow oven failed, they contacted Blundell Production Equipment who recommended they try vapour phase soldering.

After trials at Blundells' Coventry demonstration room, they purchased an IBL SLC 509 vapour phase system and now they can solder not only the micro BGA's but much more complex PCB's with Land Grid Arrays and also a CPU card with a 256 pin BGA.

Arrowvale's production manager Colin Wood says 'The Vapour phase oven works consistently over a wide range of different products with hardly any changes being needed to the program. It is easy to use and our initial fears that it would use a lot of expensive Galden Fluid have been dispelled. We haven't had to top the Galden up since it was installed a year ago'

The big benefit of vapour phase is that you get even heating across the whole assembly, irrespective of the density or complexity of the component layout, and IBL's patented Soft vapour phase gives the user complete control over the thermal profile. 'We have recently started using LGA LED's and they are heat sensitive. If they are subjected to over 260 degrees it can shorten their life, so once again vapour phase is ideal for these as it is impossible to over-heat them'.

Colin Wood adds: 'We won't be parting with our convection reflow oven – it still has its place for higher volume lower technology boards, but the vapour phase had proven to be invaluable for the more complex work.'

About Blundell Production Equipment
Blundell Production Equipment areas of expertise include SMT Placement machines, wave soldering, selective soldering and vapour phase soldering, PCB rework and inspection, fume extraction, low humidity storage and aqueous cleaning. For more information visit http://www.blundell.co.uk

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