Ensure Quality and Standards
Compliance with Laboratory Testing
Customer Benefits
$5M Investment
Over 50 Modern Machines
6 Laboratories
in France, China, Sweden, Germany, South Africa, and the US
Bare and Assembled
Board Testing
30 Lab Technicians
With Decades of Experience
Laboratory Equipment
Between our three in-house labs, ICAPE Group has several new and modern machines that take the guesswork out of your PCB services. Below is a list of many of the machines you can find across our laboratories.
X-Ray
Fluorescence
Micro Pionner XRF 2000
To measure the thickness of multi-coating elements
Differential Scanning Calorimeter
Ta Instruments Q20 DSC
To measure the differential heat flow
Probe Bare
Board Test
MicroCraft EMX6151 Flying
To test connectivity isolation
Cross
Section
Struers Micro Section System
Stuers LaboPol-20
To test cross sections
Micro Section
Analysis
Keyence VHX 7000 Microscope
To analyse micro sections
IC Separation
Dionex ICS-2100
To perform isocratic and gradient IC separations
X-Ray
Inspection
Nordson Dage Quadra 3
To detect manufacturing defects
Thermal Shock
Chamber
Tenney Environmental
To test against various temperatures and humidity.
Dimensional Metrology
View Summit System
To measure large footprint parts
Impedance
Control
POLAR CITS880S
To check the line impedance
Weatting
Balance
METRONELEC ST88
To perform a solderability test
TG
Test
DICOVERY DSC25
To control the TG of the base raw material FR4
Ionic
Contamination
Metronelec
To verify the ionic contamination level
Surface
Roughness
Mitutoyo
To verify surface roughness of diverse coatings (copper, gold…)
Mechanical Measurement
Keyence
To verify all geometric dimensioning
2D Semi Automatic
Measurement
Asida
To verify all geometric dimensions
Thermal Shock
Chamber
ESPEC
To test reliability by thermal shock
Temperature &
Humidity Chamber
GWS
To control temperature and humidity with aging test
Solder
Pot
Asida
To perform thermal stress and solder float tests
Mechanic
Measurement
Mitutoyo
To allow quality inspection
V-cut Tester
Asida
To measure the depth of V-cut
Marble
Saben
To check bow and twist
Sample Cutter
Asida
To cut various size of microsection coupon
Precision
Balance
Sartotius
To measure sample weight
Lab Assurance
Our laboratory reports provide an “approval for use” report with the results. Our laboratory is used by customers from all industries to validate bare or assembled boards, troubleshoot problems, or verify their boards.
Industry Expertise
Laboratory Tests
Risk-free
The surface mount technology (SMT) process utilizes barcode component verification at placement for passive component validation and AOI (Automated optical inspection) to enable a fast and accurate review of your PCB/A.