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What is the difference between SMT and SMD?

SMT stands for Surface Mount Technology, it's a process for soldering the SMD components to
the PCB, the entire technology of mounting and soldering surface mount components onto a
printed circuit board or PCB. The actual process is summarised below:

Firstly, a PCB stencil is aligned on the surface of the boards and solder paste is applied using a
squeegee to ensure the pads are coated with a uniform and controlled amount of solder paste.
Secondly, via a pick and place machine or hand placement, the components are mounted onto
the boards in their respective locations. The wet solder paste will act as a temporary adhesive
but it is still important to ensure that the boards are moved gently to prevent misalignment.
Thirdly, the boards are passed through a reflow oven which subjects the boards to infrared
radiation, melting the solder paste and forming solder joints. Then the boards are passed
through an AOI machine, or Automatic Optic Inspection machine which runs a number of quality

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checks on the boards visually, such as component alignment and checking for solder bridges.
The boards then proceed to further testing. In the 1980s, SMT production technology became
increasingly more refined and as a result, is widely used in mass production. As costs were
reduced and technical performance enhanced, more advanced but economical equipment
became available. Surface mount technology has numerous advantages, not limited to reducing
the volume of devices, such as improved performance, greater functionality and lower costs. As
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PCB loader used to storage many bare PCB or PCB with components on one side, feed the
PCB to the SMT stencil Printer and SMT stencil printer print the solder paste on the PCB, then
send the pick and place machine, pick and place machine place the components on the PCB
then send to reflow oven. Reflow oven solder the components on the PCB, then use AOI
inspection the solder quality. SPI used for inspection the solder paste quality that some high end
PCB maybe can't repaire or need very few time repaire.

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SMD is an abbreviation for surface mount devices, a device assembled using surface mount
components and technology. In the early stages, SMD were soldered manually by hand. Then
the first batch of pick and place machines could only handle a few simple components. The
more complex and smaller components still needed to be placed manually. Not long before the
introduction of surface mount components over 20 years ago, a new era was born. From simple
resistors to complex ICs, almost every through hole component now has an SMT equivalent.

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