The old ways of inspecting PCB assemblies are fading into history. Manual visual inspection, once the backbone of quality control in electronics manufacturing, cannot keep pace with the density and complexity of modern surface mount technology. Hum...

If you've ever shipped a batch of PCBs only to have a customer call back about a short circuit you could have caught at the factory, you know exactly why inspection matters. Manual visual inspection works up to a point, but once production volumes ...