Getting Inside ECS:

   The first place we were directed was the drilling area. This is where all those hundreds or thousands of tiny holes in the PCB's are precision drilled. There was a whole floor of drilling machines with rows of rows of them. How they keep them organized and sorted is beyond me, but it's quite a sight when they're all plucking away at PCB's behind their safety doors.

Entering	Wide Shot	Copper Plate	Drilling Machine
Workers	Workers	The Drill	Completed

The Visual Inspection Process

   The next place we were directed is the Hot Press Room. This is where the boards are baked and pressed. This area was quite warm as you'd expect but it was also dark and a bit spooky with a large moving platform that the boards were loaded into and baked and pressed.

   The next area we passed through was, I believe, the plating line. This was a huge room with copper boards (plates) everywhere!

   The next area we passed was the Exposure Room. This is where they put in the trace designs for each motherboard.

   The next area we passed through was the Solder Mask Printing Area and then we breezed through the Printing Ink Blend Room.

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