MATRIX ELECTRONICS

Matrix electronics was an idea that started because of 4 friends that wanted to work together again, we all met back in the 1980's, we worked on the shop floor for one of the biggest electronic companies in warrington and all did our training together, the training at this company was brilliant, we started at the begining learning basic soldering skills then movied onto assembly.

 Pre-forming was the first thing to be learned as this is the first stage of PCB assembly, also at this stage the PCB is usually masked off, then we all learned the skills needed to populate a PCB, such as our colour code to be able to identify resistors, we learned that certain components have a cathode and an anode so have to be inserted with the correct orientation, we learned how to inspect a PCB after it had been soldered looking out for dry joints, blow holes and shorts.

Sometimes a PCB would need modifications to bring it up to the latest revision so we learned how to do track cuts and wire links. Once a PCB was complete it would move onto the mechanical section where it would go into the finished product, this was either a plastic or metal box with a front and rear panel, so electro-mechanical assembly skills where also learned, this consisted of crimping and wiring usually switches and transformers, cable assembly skills would also be learned.

We all worked together for over ten years and really enjoyed all aspects of electronic assembly, it was because of our combined knowledge and experience that we decided to start Matrix electronics a PCB assembly and cable assembly sub-contractor for the electronics industry.