Automated Optical Inspection • AOI

AOI addresses the challenges of ever-increasing PCB density and diversity by introducing a repeatable, objective, precise, high-resolution inspection stage to identify a huge range of potential problems in your boards before they arise, or are released to your customers. Using AOI, Gardien can help you to detect problems that could otherwise slip through the manufacturing process. Problems that could compromise the functionality of your PCBs:

Using its industry-beating AOI technologies, Gardien can detect issues in seconds, helping you to catch them early enough to eliminate them from your processes.

With Gardien's early AOI coverage, you can catch and eliminate production problems before they develop, improving imaging and etching processes as well as other.

As board features have become finer and more densely packed, the AOI process has become critical as a method for checking the inner layers of a PCB before they are stacked and pressed together.

By conducting AOI on your inner layers, Gardien can help you catch problems in your imaging and etching processes before they develop into serious production issues. By finding and fixing your problems early on, we reduce your inner layer scrap by up to 90% and help you save up to 80% more than the costs of our service.

The benefits of conducting AOI on outer layers cannot be overstated. As many as 55% of all of a PCB's shorts are typically to be found on its outer layers. If these are detected before soldermask is applied, they can be repaired, with significant savings to you, in materials, overheads, human and other resources, not to mention your company's reputation as a quality supplier of PCBs.