Avoiding Common FPC Punching Errors: Lessons from Southeast Asian SMT Lines

Avoiding Common FPC Punching Errors

Avoiding Common FPC Punching Errors is becoming a critical topic as Southeast Asian SMT factories continue to scale volume while facing rising quality expectations from European and global customers. With FPC substrates becoming thinner, softer, and more complex, even minor deviations in the punching process can lead to yield loss, dimensional inaccuracies, or damage to fragile copper traces.This article summarizes real issues observed in Vietnam, Malaysia, and Thailand SMT lines and provides engineering-driven guidance in a tone aligned with German and French industrial expectations: precise, durable, and experience-based. 🔧 H1 — Why FPC Punching Is More Challenging Than Rigid PCB Cutting FPC materials behave differently from FR4. They stretch, bend, […]

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