AMI is a required inspection step for these and other devices. Applications Laboratories Sonoscan serves its customers not only by developing and selling the most advanced acoustic imaging equipment, but also by maintaining four Applications Laboratories where lots of parts ranging in size from a single part to more than 100,000 parts are imaged and analyzed. Staffed by highly trained engineers who specialize in providing AMI solutions to customer problems, the applications laboratories are in Elk Grove Village IL, Scottsdale AZ, San Jose CA, and Dorset, England. In addition, Sonoscan maintains an affiliation with numerous other laboratories throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. The Elk Grove Village lab alone has imaged over 5,000,000 ceramic chip capacitors for this purpose, along with countless IC packages of various designs.
Project objectives range from simple accept-reject decisions to detailed material characterization.
Or a company may submit field failures or parts which have failed electrical tests. One of the ongoing activities of the laboratories is to design specific programs which meet the varied needs of customers. The depth and diversity of acoustic micro imaging is also reflected in the organization of Sonoscan. Essentially all advances in acoustic micro imaging have occurred within Sonoscan, partly as a result of the company s vertical integration. Continuing education classes are taught each quarter at Sonoscan facilities, and by request at customer facilities.