Pacific West America

Printed Circuit Board Assembly and Contract Manufacturing

Pacific West America, Inc. (PWA) provides first class service and world class quality to the electronics industry. We are a full service contract manufacturer specializing in all areas of material handling and printed circuit board assembly including both rigid and flex circuits.

• Deliver consistent quality
• Provide timely and responsive services
• Offer extensive manufacturing support and experience
• Provide exceptional value

Engineering and developing new products to meet new challenges means your electronics manufacturing is more complex today than ever before. PWA understands these challenges and is ready to help your engineering team achieve success at every level!

Engineering and Design

What influential factors determine the success of your product in the marketplace? Getting to market faster, at a lower cost and with higher quality standards? The ability to answer this correctly is the difference between what could be tremendous success and low growth or even failure in today's markets. Pacific West can offer the advantage that makes you or keeps you a world class competitor.

The Engineering and Design process determines a big percentage of a product's price, and supply chain performance. We are an EMS partner that can help you compete in the marketplace. Pacific West America's reputation for leadership in technology and quality can help you achieve success.

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Surface Mount:

• DEK Automated Paste Printing
• Assembleon SMT Placement lines
• BTU Lead Free Reflow Ovens
• PDR Infrared re-work stations
• Air-Vac Hot Air re-work stations

Through Hole:

• Manual Assembly Lines
• Amistar Automated Axial Assembly
• Technical Devices wave solder
• PillarHouse Jade selective solder
• Tolo Wave solder
• Tolo Wave (PB-Free)

Quality:

• Yestech AOI's
• Dage X-ray
• Glenbrook X-ray
• KIC Profile Verification
• Vision Engineering Inspection Scopes
• Hakko Solder stations
• Functional Testing & Data Tracking S/W

Put Pacific West's experience to work for you!

PWA's team strives for excellence 100% of the time and has extensive experience in all areas of electronics production. The engineering, production and documentation review processes are highly integrated and automated.

The feedback to your production team is accurate, timely and highly coordinated. State of the art tools combined with unparalleled expertise ensure even the most demanding projects and schedules can be completed with confidence.

Component Specification, Sourcing & Qualification

PCB design for Manufacturability Reviews

Component pad geometry analysis

Full CAD editing - CAM350 by Downstream Technologies

Integrated CAM system – Circuit CAM by Aegis:

• Integration with our custom Production/Inventory control system
• Automates integration of Gerber files/BOM’s
• Automates Review of BOM to Layout
• Generates Graphical Documentation
• Generates machine programs for:
  • SMT Assembly
  • AOI Inspection

Stencil design & procurement

Design and procurement of custom reflow & wave plates

Design and fabrication of custom tooling

Rigorous ESD prevention and audit programs conform to:

Inspection Points:

To ensure consistently high levels of quality processes include the following inspection points:

• New product documentation
• Incoming receiving – sampling to 100%
• Component preparation – sampling to 100%
• SMT component placement – 100%
• SMT solder quality – 100%
• Automated Optical Inspection – Sampling and 100%
• Pre-wave solder component verification – 100%
• Post wave solder quality – 100%
• Second assembly – 100%
• Final Inspection – 100%

Trained technicians combined with state of the art facilities can handle all of your needs from Prototypes through Production.

We drive customer success through:

• Relentless attention to customer requirements
• Commitment to satisfaction of our customers