How Much Do You Know PCBA First Article Inspection? in Ailey

First Articles Inspections (FAI) are generally less common than other inspection types, like visual inspection, AOI, X-ray and SPI in the mind of people who are involved in Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Assembly Manufacturing industry. And many of PCB assembly or SMT assembly suppliers who are unaware of the customer’ requirements might resist outside inspection, especially when the customer from overseas.

It’s even more important to outline your PCB assembly requirement for a first article inspection in your fabrication drawing documentation, and check with the circuit board assembly manufacturer whether it has capability to conduct the FAI work and meet your requirement. If the requirement more detailed, the better to understanding. Of course, the fabrication drawing should set the expectation of when and how you’ll evaluate the PCB assemblies’ quality, which preventing pushback from the selected supplier. What’s more, you also can set an acceptable defects rate to imply the importance of the PCBA yield in high-volume PCB assembly project.