PCB broker climbs aboard the Future Proof Assembly Line March 22, 2011

~ ALR Services provides PCBs for innovative National Electronics Week project ~

Thame based electronics firm ALR Services Ltd has sourced the PCBs (Printed Circuit Boards) that will be used on the National Electronic Week Future Proof Assembly Line at the NEC, between April 12 and 13. The line can be found on stand number N401, where you can follow the PCB production process step by step and find out about the machines and consumables in use. Visitors can even take away a completed PCB as a memento of the occasion.

The production technologies on show include Package on Package (PoP) and the accurate placement of minute 01005 components. The former process allows for higher density stacking of components, which is ideal for the mobile phone and PDA markets, where real estate is in short supply. Meanwhile the latter procedure demonstrates the outstanding levels of accuracy the line provides.

ALR Services specialises in helping electronics companies reduce the costs associated with, and time spent on, purchasing PCBs (Printed Circuits Boards), without compromising the quality or delivery of the product. Services include a panel sharing prototype offering, where a customer’s boards are placed on a manufacturing panel alongside those belonging to another ALR Services customer. This results in cost effective prototyping with a very short lead time.

“I think this project demonstrates the flexibility our service provides,” explained ALR Services’ Managing Director, Jim Rosseter. “PCB brokering was once about nothing more than shifting units at the right price. We believe that it’s now a case of acting as a technical and logistics partner for our clients.”

The live production line will see ALR Services line up alongside electronics luminaries including Almit Ltd, Asscon, DEK Printing Machines, Jaltek IDMS, Juki Automation Systems, Micro Robotics Ltd, Nikon Metrology, Nutek UK Ltd, Wurth Electronics, X-Tek and Zen Production Equipment.

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For further information contact:
Jim Rosseter or Jo Saltman, ALR Services,
9 Thame Business Park, Bertie Road, Thame, Oxon, OX9 3XA
Telephone: +44 (0) 1844 217487
Fax: +44 (0) 1844 217519
www: www.alrpcbs.co.uk
e-mail: Jim@alrpcbs.co.uk
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About ALR Services: ALR Services was formed in July of 1995. The company specialises in helping electronics companies reduce their costs and time spent on the purchasing of printed circuits, without compromising on the quality or delivery of the product. It has continued to grow and recently moved premises to a larger facility in Thame, Oxfordshire. Through its network of manufacturing facilities both in the UK and offshore, it is able to ensure that each particular PCB type is placed at the production site that is most suited to that technology, quantity and delivery. It is now one of the largest PCB brokers in Europe.

Ref: ALR013/02/11