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RF Shielding screens are designed for PCB assembly in order to prevent interference, and are most commonly produced from conductive metal foils ranging from 0.1 mm to 0.5 mm. Manufacturing RF Shielding screens requires dedicated equipment and technologies for processing thin gauge sheet metal, which are significantly more problematic then production technologies used by manufacturers of metal enclosures.    Read more...

Considering a PCB Shield in a mass assembly line, resembles the treatment of other components being assembled onto the PCB. Nevertheless, in order to perform automatic assembly of a PCB shield, several conditions must be obtained during production, as well as suitable packaging of the PCB Shield. There are two common ways of packaging a PCB Shield for automatic assembly, using pick and place plastic trays, and packing the PCB Shield into tape and reel.    Read more...

Multi compartment RF Shielding cans, are mainly used to cover different areas on the PCB, and generally chosen in order to reduce the shielding costs as an alternative to the production of several shields. There are two main methods of producing multi compartment RF Shielding cans, based on the technique of assembling the internal partitions to the RF shielding can.    Read more...

Once a requirement for PCB Shielding arise, either when it is discovered after the PCB is designed and manufactured, or during the PCB design stage, RF engineers start a process of pricing PCB Shielding to their requirement. The preferred way, is of course to predict the need prior to the design of the PCB, then there is a possibility to use standard PCB Shielding, and design the PCB according to the selected standard shield, yet there is a possibility to design and manufacture a custom PCB Shield, which at least at the sample stage, cost more.    Read more...

PCB Shielding manufacturing is a process which starts during the PCB design stage,
or while testing product's application after reaching the conclusion that a PCB Shield is needed
due to EMI issues that are preventing the product to work properly.    Read more...