A common source of defects in manufacturing miniature Printed Circuits Boards (PCB) is the attachment of silicon die or other wire bondable components on a Liquid Crystal Polymer (LCP) substrate. Typically, a conductive glue is dispensed prior to attachment with defects caused either by insufficient or excessive glue. The current practice in electronics industry is to examine the deposited glue by a human operator a process that is both time consuming and inefficient especially in preproduction runs where the error rate is high. In this paper we propose a system that automates fault diagnosis by accurately estimating the volume of glue deposits before and even after die attachment. Network (3DCNN). RNet outperforms other deep architectures and is able to estimate the volume either directly from the point cloud of a glue deposit or more interestingly after die attachment when only a small part of glue is visible around each die. The entire methodology is evaluated under operational conditions where the proposed system achieves accurate results without delaying the manufacturing process. To this end a modular scanning system is deployed that produces high resolution point clouds whereas the actual estimation of glue volume is performed by (R)egression-Net (RNet), a 3D Convolutional NeuralIndex Terms-3DCNN, deep learning, PCB, smart manufacturing.

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