Systems, vision and components in electronics assembly -- Manging automated electronics assembly -- PCB production equipment -- Modern platers and etchers -- Chemicals in PCB manufacturing -- Cleaning PCBs for higher quality -- Producing quality multilayer PCBs -- Plasma desmearing -- Chip-on-board technology -- Chip-and-wire technology -- TAB and flip-chip technology -- Component insertion equipment -- Workstations -- Automatic component insertion/placement systems -- Automated pin insertion -- Automated placement techniques -- Assembly challenges -- Robots in the electrical and electronics industry -- Consistency and quality using robots -- Robot hand exchangers -- Vision-guided assembly -- Vibratory insertion process: A new approach to non-standard component insertion -- SMT growth -- Realizing the benefits of SMT -- Designing reliability into surface-mount assemblies -- Design solutions -- Choosing SMT and setting up a facility -- SMT advantages -- Pick-and-place machines -- Surface-mount assembly using machine vision -- SMD placement using machine vision -- Hot-air leveling -- Testability circuit and board access problems -- Conductive epoxy for SMT solder replacement -- The removal and replacement of SMCs -- New applications -- New materials and equipment -- Integral substrate package technology -- Solder/cleaning, test and rework -- Solder joint acceptability -- Wave solder defects -- Soldering system trends -- Wave soldering: A study in process control -- Optimizing the wave soldering process -- Computerized soldering systems -- Re-examination of soldering techniques -- Adhesives for SMD wave soldering -- Adhesive evaluation -- Solder coating and leveling -- Screen printing -- Solvent flushing -- Rosin solder flux residues -- Aqueous cleaning -- Cleaning surface-mounted assemblies -- Desoldering components -- Bare-board testing -- Automatic optical inspection systems -- Machine vision -- Component testers and handlers -- Handlers -- Lead scanning -- Probe design and test fixturing -- Inspection equipment -- Image processing and non-destructive testing -- Design of SMA for testability -- Test and inspection of hybrid microcircuits -- In-circuit and functional ATE -- Functional test -- Test program development and processing power -- Robotic automated-test workcells -- Clean room technology -- Modular clean rooms -- Clean room air monitoring -- ESD control -- Static shielding techniques -- Computer control of modern factory operations -- Electronics CAE/CAD/CAM -- CAD/CAM for PCB manufacturing -- Designing PCBs for surface-mount assemblies -- CAD in hybrid production -- Discrete wired circuit board production -- Automating the assembly of electronic products -- Test, rework and inspection management costs -- Flexible manufacturing -- Computer simulation -- Local area networks -- Materials handling accessories -- Automated PCB handling -- Automated guided vehicle systems -- Batch-of-one assembly -- FMS for PCB assembly -- PCB assembly and test -- Factory control and robotic systems -- Authors' organizations and addresses.