Production Systems and Processes for the Specific Requirements of Automotive Electronics

In today's automobiles, trucks and motorcycles electronic components are essential to control its movements and the entire range of chemical, mechanical, and electrical processes involved. These electronic systems ensure safety, provide communication and are imperative for the on-board entertainment. Automotive applications like systems for driver assistance, occupant protection and transmission control are key growth areas in this market. A strong increase of the electronic components' contribution to the total manufacturing expense is forecasted. Functional Electronics Coatings:

• High Speed Cu / Ni Plating
• Sn and SN / Pb Alloys
• Ag and Pd / Ni Alloys
• Au and Au Alloys

Functional coatings for high-tech applications

Our reliable functional coatings meet the specific needs of the automotive industry for high-tech electronics. The whole range includes products and processes for precious and non-precious metal plating as well as for pre-and post-treatment. These do not only comply with the most stringent quality standards, but are also in accordance with modern environmental regulations.

Meeting the challenges of automotive electronics

With the growing number of electronically supported functions, vehicles are becoming far more complex. Ensuring the functional reliability of electronic components has always been the major challenge for vehicle developers. From the manufacturing side, the challenge is quality and yield. Meeting the tough requirements of automotive applications in terms of temperature, humidity, endurance (life-cycle) and mechanical shocks calls for highly advanced electronic components. Atotech provides tailor-made solutions and plating systems for a variety of production demands ranging from connector, through PCB to IC plating technology.

Supplying solutions for the future

Because of its thermal and dimensional stability, ceramic substrates are ideally suited for various automotive applications. Atotech offers a selective finishing system with higher resolution and superior bondability/solderability properties compared to conventional technologies. With new processes and systems for the specific requirements of automotive applications Atotech is committed to supply solutions that will further improve the way in which we engineer and use our vehicles.