YSoft Hardware now offers X-ray inspection services
X-ray inspection at Y Soft: What is it and how can it help?
Our manufacturing team uses an industrial X-ray system (Nordson Quadra 5 Pro) to build and check our own hardware. Now you can use it for your products too, as a stand-alone inspection service. You don’t need to manufacture with us to use it.
What can X-ray see that cameras can’t?
Many solder joints on a circuit board sit hidden underneath components. This is typical of chips such as BGAs (ball grid arrays) and QFNs (quad flat no-lead packages), which can have dozens or hundreds of connections on their underside. A board can look perfect from the outside and still hide a short circuit, too little solder, or an air pocket (void) beneath a chip. Optical inspection can’t see these defects. X-ray can, without opening or damaging the product.
Think of it as a CT scan for electronics
The system’s X-Plane software goes beyond standard 2D and angled images. It creates virtual cross-sections and 3D views of selected areas, so engineers can examine a board layer by layer and separate details that overlap in a normal X-ray image.
How do we use it ourselves?
We inspect the products we build at every stage: prototypes, first articles, production batches and repaired units. Because we also manufacture them, our engineers can link what they see in an image to the materials, process settings and conditions that caused it. That lets us fix the cause of a defect, not just detect it.
Could this help you?
If you build your own electronics, have a defect you can’t explain, or need proof of build quality for a new product, we’re happy to talk.
What do we offer?
We can check an assembly, investigate a defect or verify a prototype, from a single sample to production batches.
You receive X-ray images to your requirements, plus expert interpretation and measurements on request. We confirm suitability case by case, so just tell us about your product.
Get in touch
You don’t need to manufacture with us to use the service. Tell Dan Murphy about your product and what you need to check: dan.murphy@ysoft.com
If you’re also looking for a manufacturing partner for complex circuit board assemblies or complete devices, we can help with that too.