Palomar Technologies Partners with Vision Manufacturing, Inc. to add PWB and SMT Services for Palomar Microelectronics

Palomar Technologies, provider of precision automation equipment, process development, and assembly services for microelectronics, announces a partnership with Vision Manufacturing, Inc. (VMI), of Vista, California. Through VMI, Palomar Microelectronics can offer printed wiring board (PWB) and surface mount technology (SMT) services for its customers to supplement the process development, prototyping, and low volume assembly services Palomar Microelectronics provides.

Palomar Microelectronics customers can now forward their PWB drawing files. Palomar then coordinates with VMI to procure piece parts and perform SMT processes such as solder stencil, surface mount pick and place, solder reflow, cleaning, and inspection. The assembled parts are then returned to Palomar for microelectronic packaging assembly, test, and shipping. Palomar also offers other services through qualified vendors such as plating, sputtering, wafer dicing, and LED repackaging.

Palomar Microelectronics is Palomar Technologies’ high value-added microelectronic packaging service offered to Palomar customers throughout the world and facilitated through Palomar offices in the United States, Germany, and Singapore. This fast growing segment of the company was created by the demand for quick-turn product development, prototyping, test, and assembly services. Microelectronic assembly processes include advanced wire bonding, gold ball bumping, and precision component placement for semiconductor packages, high power LEDs, MEMS devices, microwave and RF components, optoelectronic packages, multichip modules, and hybrids. Palomar Microelectronics helps companies speed time-to-market, control costs, and reduce risks.

“Combining surface mount with chip and wire for prototyping and low volume, as both Palomar and VMI do, plays into a niche that currently has very little competition,” said Steve Truong, president and founder of VMI. “To get both services, today’s customer usually has to sub work out to two different shops. By partnering with VMI for these services, Palomar Microelectronics reduces risk and simplifies scheduling.”

“When customers come to Palomar Microelectronics with design ideas, they know they can rely on us to get their products to where they can be manufactured successfully and are ready for volume manufacturing by a contract manufacturer or themselves,” said Don Beck, operations manager of Palomar Microelectronics. “Our partnership with VMI adds an important piece to the process.”

About VMI

Established in 2000, VMI is one of the most technologically superior contract electronics manufacturers in the Southwestern region of the United States. VMI offers a full complement of design and manufacturing services in a total solution platform for new product development. For more information, please view http://www.vmimfg.com/

About Palomar Technologies

Palomar Technologies (formerly part of Hughes Aircraft Company) is one of the world’s principal suppliers of automated high-precision wire bonders and component placement systems along with process development and assembly services to increase yield and lower costs for manufacturers of optoelectronic, RF, and microelectronic packages in the wireless, photonic, LED, microwave, photovoltaic, computer, automotive, aerospace, and medical industries.

For more information on Palomar Technologies and Palomar Microelectronics, visit http://www.palomartechnologies.com or phone 760-931-3600.