ECS Manufacturing in ShenZhen

Motherboard Manufacturing:

Before we were allowed to start working on the motherboard production line, we were given a briefing about the day's work. After the briefing, we got dressed up in a rather fetching outfits. These are to prevent static, for obvious reasons.

SMD (surface mount device) components and PCBs are stored ready for sending into the Rapid SMD Placement machines. These things fire around 10 components per second when running at full speed - it's pretty impressive to watch first hand. Unfortunately, ECS wouldn't allow us to video the machines in operation.

Here you can see some of the hardware used. The process is not easy to show, due to the incredible speed and closed confinement in which the machines operate. All surface mount components, including the CPU Socket and chipsets are mounted during this process. The process uses an optical check to ensure that the components are positioned within the thresholds.

The particular motherboard we're following on the SMD component process is an Athlon 64 motherboard based on Socket 754.