The use of conformal coating has provided benefits to industry for many years, either in the high reliability market sector or where products have to deal with extreme environmental conditions. In recent years, due to changes in technology and miniaturisation, coatings are being used in different industries like telecommunications, automotive and consumer products. Mobile phones and other professional handheld products have benefited from the use of selective coating for environmental and robustness.

This CD-ROM provides a simple guide to the use of coatings, their application processes, product benefits, inspection and quality control. A practical interactive defect guide also allows users to see defect coating application and user defects. A unique feature of the interactive disk is engineers answering the most common questions on coating processes, process defects and quality control in manufacture. This section features six experts on coating from around the world and also contributors to national and international standards on coating with IEC and IPC.

A video introduction to the Coating CD-ROM can be viewed at http://ipc.electronics.ca/bw_ccoating.wmv The first 20 companies ordering the interactive CD-ROM also receive a set of inspection and quality control wall charts on conformal coating for shop floor display.

This is one of the 30 CD-ROMs produced by Bob Willis as a practical training and educational resource on all aspects of electronic manufacture. For further details on training products and services go to Electronics.ca Training Center.