First Chapter Bookstore
EPS now have CD-ROMs available on electronic manufacture at £99 each.  To order click here.
The defect and photo albums provide a collection of the most common process defects for use in inspection standards, posters, training manuals and technical articles. Each file is stored on the CD in a tiff file format. Just think of the process defects and they will be on the disks.
Soldering Standards Interactive Disks
Conventional Assembly Inspection
Surface Mount Assembly Inspection
The soldering standards interactive disks are based around the British Telecom, IEC and IPC assembly standards criteria. They also include a text file inspection criteria document and questioners to test operators understanding of the standards.
Guide to Surface Mount Components
SMT Component Recognition
This disk is designed to provide a guide to surface mount components, termination types and packaging and to test operators component knowledge.
Surface Mount Interactive Assessment
SMT Interactive assessment - click here to download the Demo Version (reflow.zip file 610k)
The disk provides sets of interactive question and answer tests for engineering, production and quality staff. It is designed to be used after any formal training courses to test a group or a single member of staff and their understanding of different surface mount topics. It may also be used to assist the selection of new staff members during company interviews where colour and component recognition is particularly important.

The CD ROM contains a series of questions on each of the following subjects:

Colour Coding, Printed Circuit Boards, Component Recognition, Solder Paste Printing, Component Placement, Reflow Soldering, Wave Soldering, Cleaning, Rework and Repair, Solder Joint Inspection

After working through the multi choice question and answer session a report of the correctly answered questions is produced for the instructor on each student. A copy of the questions and answers are also included as a .txt and .doc files on the hard disk for manual testing and for possible modification of the test questions.