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Can anyone recommend proper inspection tools for populated printed circuit boards? We are a manufacturer of electrical/mechanical medical equipment and purchase approximately 50 boards a month so I do not want to purchase an expensive piece of automatied equipment. I was looking into the Mantis. What do you think about that?
PCB Inspection is an essential element in the electronics manufacturing process. The PCB inspection enables the faults to be detected after the manufacture process is completed. As the name implies, manual inspection involves individual inspectors looking at boards or other assemblies to inspect them for problems. This approach has been proved to be costly, and yielding poor results. Before automation, it was the only way that inspection could be performed. However, Automatic or automated optical inspection is the preferred method of PCB inspection. It utilizes an optical system that takes an image of a good assembly and compares the two images to detect any faults or other issues.