Flexible Circuit Assembly

These Flexible Circuit Assembly requires special knowledge, special tooling and a great deal of care, the assembly materials and processes for populating and interconnecting components to a flex circuit range are essentially identical to those used for standard rigid circuit board, the assembly processes range from very simple methods, such as manual component insertion and hand-soldering, which require little or not fixture, to fully automated methods, which require specially developed design-specific and dedicated fixture.
Refers to flex circuit assembly, there is several factors need to take into consideration:
1 Whata s the flex circuit base material?
2 What type of component will be used?
3 How many assemblies will be built?
Normally speaking, these or other important questions must be addressed before one can make the proper decision about flex circuit assembly.
As was indicated earlier, the assembly process for flex circuits follows a path similar to rigid circuit board but with some important point of departure. It is of value to understand the traditional flow of flex circuit assembly as a point of common reference, below is a flow chart of flex circuit assembly