Stencil Prinitng SMT Adhesives: A Technology Review
While many board manufacturers have already been printing adhesives for SMT applications, much of the technology is not well understood.
For high-volume manufacturing applications such as automotive and consumer electronics where SMT adhesives are required for the assembly process, stencil printing of the adhesives offers the most cost effective method of manufacture. Since print cycle time is short and the board design does not change, the cost of the stencil is absorbed over the life of the product - usually one or two years.