PCB industry calls for industry standards
Sadie.com in recent years, China’s printed circuit industry in the rapid development of the electronic information industry, driven by the momentum of the breakthrough. According to the China Printed Circuit Association (CPCA) statistics, in 2005, China’s PCB production of 110.57 million square meters, the output value reached 86.8 billion yuan, the total value of production and import and export, respectively, more than 10 billion U.S. dollars, well deserved to become the world’s PCB production power, but also is moving toward the goal of a strong country. Once we become a PCB industry powerhouse, PCB industry standards with Chinese characteristics will play an increasingly important role. However, China’s standard-setting in the PCB industry is still in its infancy, how to promote the introduction of PCB standards and further improve the PCB standards, how to make standards to promote the development of China’s PCB industry, has become a topic of concern to the industry.
The development of PCB standards is imperative
The attractiveness of the Chinese market has made the global manufacturing center of gravity has shifted to China, we produce things not only to meet the domestic market, but also to the international market. PCB standards play a very important role in product design, production processing and inspection.
Senior engineer Gong Yonglin analysis to the current PCB market has tended to internationalization, the annual import and export volume is growing significantly, it is estimated that in 2005 PCB exports of about 5 billion U.S. dollars, imports of more than 6 billion U.S. dollars. In trade transactions, PCB companies need to use standards to understand what quality products to enter the market and accepted by customers, for different customers to master a variety of standards to develop the market; the use of standards to coordinate the supply and demand for product quality awareness of both sides in the standard regulation to achieve a smooth sale between the two sides; the use of standards in the market competition to protect the interests of the country or the enterprise; when the buyer and seller in product quality When the dispute between the buyer and the seller on product quality cannot be negotiated, the standard is the basis for arbitration
In fact, within the PCB industry, the call for the introduction of standards has been a long time. China Printed Circuit Industry Association Secretary-General Wang Longji told reporters that the standard is a symbol of national sovereignty, in China has become the world’s largest PCB production and manufacturing power, must pay attention to the development of China’s electronic circuit-related standards, and ultimately in China should use China’s own development of national standards, industry standards and CPCA standards, as a way to reflect, measure the level of development of China’s electronic circuit industry, to protect and promote the development of Chinese electronic circuit enterprises and international interaction.
By radium on the role of PCB standards for incisive analysis, he said that the development of PCB standards, not only to help mainland China’s PCB counterparts to participate in the international PCB market competition, but also to help the PCB industry to innovate, so that mainland China’s counterparts to the international first-class PCB enterprises to move forward. In today’s internationalization and increasing globalization, the competition in the PCB industry, not only limited to price, delivery, technology, service, etc., but also to the trend of industry standards competition, especially the current industry-wide facing the “WEEE”, “RoHS “, “halogen-free material requirements” and other green barriers, so that the competition gradually evolved into the “rules of the game” competition.
A multi-pronged approach should be taken to promote the development of standards
At present, China’s printed circuit industry is in the domestic and foreign capital expansion at the same time, the domestic and foreign markets at the same time to develop the situation, China’s own standards lag or vacancy to foreign standards to take advantage of the opportunity to enter. Now the domestic PCB industry to use the standards of the United States, Japan’s standards as the mainstream, most enterprises, especially large enterprises are using the U.S. IPC standards, product export enterprises are strictly according to IPC standards for delivery. In addition more Japanese customers require the use of Japanese JIS standards or JPCA standards.
Domestic PCB industry compared with the United States and Japan and other developed countries, there is a relatively large gap in the accumulation of technology and basic research. In terms of standards alone, we are still in the “fetish” stage. How to shorten this gap? Ltd. said that on the one hand, we should actively cooperate and exchange with domestic and foreign counterparts, especially the cooperation between upstream and downstream industries; on the other hand, we should increase their own technological development and innovation, in the enterprise itself to strengthen R & D at the same time, the use of resources from all sides, increase the investment in basic science and technology research
He further explained that the domestic PCB industry should be integrated externally with the resources of the industry, such as Shennan Electric Road, ultrasonic electronics, Sheng Yi Electronics, etc. has become a supplier of top international companies, the product has the ability to compete with the top international PCB companies to these companies in the industry has been in the high-end as a leader, set up and organize the activities of the various standardization working groups. In the technical aspects of the reference to the applicable standards of international counterparts, the joint issuance of industry standards, while guiding each group to participate in the exchange and activities of foreign standardization working groups, participate in the development and revision of international industry standards, the development and revision of international standards to gain a greater say in the work, so that the world’s first major producer of PCB can truly “live up to its name “. Internally, we should promote technical exchanges among peer enterprises, follow the principle of “from simple to difficult”, and encourage enterprises with the conditions to take the lead in developing industry
Shantou ultrasonic printing board two factory quality manager Ma Zhibin said that so far, China’s PCB industry there are many materials, processes, equipment depend on imports, the world’s recognized good PCB materials, potions and equipment are not our own production. Therefore, we can not only rely on cheap labor, lenient resource supply and environmental requirements to become a PCB production power, we have to develop our own PCB materials, potions, equipment and process technology to develop into a PCB production powerhouse. In recent years, by the CPCA industry association old-timers and the industry and other knowledgeable people actively advocate, from the association members of the PCB manufacturers and upstream and downstream such as materials, chemicals and equipment manufacturers to actively participate in the operation of more than a year, the introduction, absorption, collation, integration, there have been a number of CPCA industry standards, which play a good role in promoting the technical reference and development of PCB enterprises.
The role of industry associations cannot be ignored
Throughout the United States and Japan and other developed countries in the PCB industry, are developed by industry associations to develop relevant standards, before gradually rising to national standards, and even world standards. Therefore, industry associations play an extremely important role in the development of standards. June 2004, CPCA established a standards committee, and has developed and reviewed and published nine association standards, to a certain extent to meet the needs of the development of China’s PCB industry. However, as the development of industry standards has just begun, so there is still a lot of work to be done.
The focus of the CPCA standard committee should be combined with the characteristics of China’s PCB industry, translation and collation of internationally recognized industry standards. Only on the basis of bringing and digesting, and then supplement or modify certain standards, in order to develop an industry standard with Chinese characteristics.
Guangzhou Xingsen Electronics Co., Ltd. production factory director Gong Lijun suggested that the CPCA standard committee should strive to achieve the convergence of PCB industry association standards and national standards, to establish an authoritative position, in order to make the industry standard has really become the implementation of China’s PCB industry-related enterprises norms, in order to play a key role in the process of business operations and development. He also pointed out that the development of industry standards must have more enterprises and units involved. Different from the research and development of technology, the development of industry standards can not be completed by a few enterprises, units, CPCA standard committee should be through their own efforts to attract more including PCB upstream suppliers, PCB manufacturers and PCB product users to participate in the essence of the practice of more participants to organize the collection, and ultimately form the industry standards and norms to enhance the level of China’s PCB industry faster. In addition, industry standards should form their own characteristics. PCB production and manufacturing technology is developing rapidly, many process methods, materials, tools and so on have not formed a standard standard, so CPCA standard committee should be organized as soon as possible to complete more new industry standards, the formation of their own characteristics, and continue to improve the status of industry standards.
