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To the data check →Industrial equipment is bought once and run for a decade. The technical requirements are usually modest; the requirement that actually bites is being able to build the same board, to the same specification, eight years after the first order.
The failure mode that hurts industrial customers is not a board that breaks. It is a board that cannot be re-ordered: a laminate discontinued, a plant that moved on, a build-up nobody wrote down properly, and a repeat order that comes back subtly different and fails a qualification that passed six years ago.
We treat that as the primary requirement. Build-ups are documented in full — not just layer count but material grade, prepreg construction, copper weights and finish — and we favour materials with multiple qualified sources over exotic ones with a single supplier. Where a material does go obsolete, you get a notification and a proposed equivalent with the data to support re-qualification, rather than a quiet substitution.
Material grade, prepreg construction, copper weights and finish recorded in full — so a repeat order eight years later is the same board, not a similar one.
We favour laminates with several qualified suppliers over exotic single-source grades. Availability risk is the risk that actually materialises.
Drive, power distribution and inverter boards need current-carrying copper. Up to 140 µm finished copper as a published build — heavier after a feasibility review — with the design rules that go with it.
What an industrial series build usually specifies, and what it means in practice.
| Requirement | Typical | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Acceptance class | IPC-A-600 Class 2 | Class 3 where safety-related |
| Layer count | 2 – 16 | Multilayer covers the large majority |
| Copper weight | 35 – 200 µm | Heavy copper on power planes |
| Material | FR-4 / High-Tg | Multi-source grades preferred |
| Surface finish | ENIG / HASL | HASL where pitch allows and cost drives |
| Conformal coating | customer process | Via plugging specified accordingly |
| UL marking | on request | Logo and type designation on the board |
| Build documentation | full | Retained for re-order and re-qualification |
Guide values for pre-selection. Binding values are confirmed per project against your data.
The points below are what most often comes back as a query after data review. Settling them before layout freeze saves a loop.
A stack-up recorded as "8 layers FR-4" is not reproducible. Material grade, prepreg construction and copper weights per layer are what make a re-order identical rather than similar.
An exotic laminate with one supplier is an obsolescence event waiting for a date. For a ten-year product, availability beats a marginal performance gain almost every time.
Open vias wick coating and trap solvent. If the assembly is coated, decide the via treatment at design stage rather than discovering it during process qualification.
Materials do go obsolete over a decade. Having the notification and re-qualification route agreed in advance turns an emergency into a scheduled task.
That is the intent, and it is why we document build-ups in full and prefer multi-source materials. What we cannot promise is that no laminate in the world will be discontinued — what we can promise is that you find out from us, with a proposed equivalent, rather than from a failed qualification.
Yes, with the plant's UL type designation and logo on the board where required. Tell us at enquiry stage — it affects the silkscreen and occasionally the material selection.
Class 2 covers most industrial work. Class 3 is appropriate where the equipment is safety-related or where field access for repair is genuinely impractical. It tightens annular ring and barrel copper acceptance, which costs a little in yield.
Up to 140 µm finished copper as a published build, on outer and inner layers, with mixed weights across the stack; anything heavier goes through a separate feasibility review. Remember that track and gap have to scale with thickness.
Send us your data or a rough sketch. We check feasibility, name the cost drivers and answer within one working day.