All Flex Solutions, Inc.
Northfield, MN 55057
Printed Circuits, Inc. Makes Equipment, Process and Plant Cleanliness Upgrades
Moving from 2012 into 2013 brings a recommitted interest in improving PCi's product and capabilities. Printed Circuits, Inc. (Minneapolis, MN) has made a number of upgrades to improve their products. Items of note are a new die punch, a new conveyorized microetch line, improvements to the lamination layup clean room, and an overhaul of the HVAC system. The new die punch frees up a significant...
Read More »Printed Circuits Upgrades Drilling with Pluritec and Excellon
Flex and rigid flex circuit board manufacturer, Printed Circuits has added to their drilling department with high speed, fully automatic drill/routers from Pluritec. Printed Circuits expanded their drilling and routing capabilities with Pluritec’s EVO multistation precision micro drill/rout modular work cells. The fully automated work cells incorporate XYZ linear motion systems, HD vision, 200K...
Read More »Printed Circuits Installs New Burkle High Temperature Lamination Press
Flex and rigid flex circuit board manufacturer, Printed Circuits has purchased and installed a new Burkle high temperature, vacuum lamination press. The new press is heated and cooled with oil. Added to their existing line, the new press offers vacuum lamination temperatures up to 625°F. “A number of our customers have asked us to expand our capabilities to accommodate some of the newer...
Read More »Printed Circuits Upgrades Photo Department
Flex and rigid flex circuit board manufacturer, Printed Circuits has added two new pieces of equipment to their photo department including a new Orbotech Paragon 8-watt laser direct imager and a Fusion 22 automatic optical inspection machine with laser via inspection capabilities. We purchased a 16-watt laser direct imager a few years back and needed to add capacity, particularly for inner and...
Read More »Printed Circuits is Certified to ISO 9001:2015
Flex and rigid flex circuit board manufacturer, Printed Circuits has received accreditation to the new ISO standard, 2001:2015. We are very excited to announce that we were just certified to the new ISO standard 9001:2015, said Ken Tannehill, president and CEO. Starting in 2000 with our original accreditation to ISO 9000 and the military performance specification MIL-PRF-31032 we have made a...
Read More »Printed Circuits Adds Engineering Manager Paul Peters and New Plating Capability in 2018
Flex and rigid flex circuit board manufacturer, Printed Circuits has started 2018 with a few enhancements to their wet processing department, starting with the appointment of Paul Peters to engineering manager of their plating and wet processing departments. Paul Peters brings a wealth of wet processing talent and experience to Printed Circuits. We are delighted to have his skill set added to our...
Read More »Printed Circuits Pursues Further Capacity and Technology Upgrades to Start 2017
Rigid flex circuit board manufacturer, Printed Circuits has started 2017 with a few enhancements to their equipment line up, designed to increase capacity, improve technical capability and reduce process time for their customers. New equipment investments for 2017 include: • Mass VHF 300 Via Fill Machine • Mass SV 200 Via Fill Planarizer • IPS electrolytic nickel gold line running Uyemura...
Read More »Printed Circuits, Inc. (PCi) Purchases Keyence IM-6225 Instant Dimensional Measurement System
Rigid flex circuit board manufacturer, Printed Circuits, Inc. has purchased an IM-6225 Instant Measurement System from Keyence. The Keyence IM-6225 offers high speed accurate dimensional measurement capabilities in a small format that is ideal for measuring flex and rigid flex printed circuit boards. Ken Tannehill, President, commented “The Keyence unit brings us an unusual combination of high...
Read More »Printed Circuits, Inc. (PCi) Hires Ed Andrews as Director of Quality Systems
Rigid-flex circuit board manufacturer, Printed Circuits, Inc. is excited to announce that they have hired Ed Andrews as their Director of Quality Systems. As an ASQ Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence and Lean/Six Sigma Green Belt Certified, Ed is ideally qualified to take PCi’s quality management systems to the next level. Printed Circuits Inc. President and CEO, Ken...
Read More »Printed Circuits, Inc. (PCi) Purchases QVI-® SprintMVP(TM) 800 Optical Measuring Machine from Ram Optical
Rigid flex circuit board manufacturer, Printed Circuits, Inc. purchased a fully automatic, four axis (X, Y, Z and zoom) optical measuring machine from Ram Optical. Named the QVIÃ-® SprintMVP™ 800, it offers fully automatic measurement in X, Y and Z axis, as well as auto zoom functions, programmable lighting solutions, and multiple feature detection systems, make it a great all facet...
Read More »Printed Circuits, Inc. (PCi) Upgrades Imaging Department
Rigid-flex circuit board manufacturer, Printed Circuits, Inc. has recently installed a Maskless Lithography printer and an Orbotech Paragon 9800 laser direct imager at their facility based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The new printers give PCi advanced capabilities for imaging innerlayers, outerlayers and soldermask on advanced technology PWB's. Steve Hanson, PCi's Engineering Manager commented...
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