Wilson Process Systems

WPS offers specialist PCB assembly, providing agile, responsive manufacturing services, that supports customers across the country. Backed by over 40 years' experience, the company currently employs approximately 75 personnel and specializes in sub-contract printed circuit board assembly. We deliver anything from bare PCBs to fully tested, electro-mechanical assemblies from our 30,000ft2 production facilities and supply a range of industries. These include consumer, industrial, entertainment, medical, rail, defence, highway and urban signage, lighting and power generation. 2016 was a record year for the company, with growth of 28 per cent, taking annual turnover to in excess of £12 million. A key policy of continual investment in new equipment helps us keep pace with customer demand and maintain competitiveness. This has seen further additions to the plant in 2016, with additional optical inspection and selective soldering equipment, as well as increased surface mount capacity. The latest addition to Wilson's equipment inventory is a Synchrodex Orissa 460 high-speed, flexible, in-line, modular selective soldering system configured with a drop-jet fluxer module and an infra-red pre-heat and soldering module. This greatly increases the repeatability and quality of the conventional soldering process through automation, while also maintaining competitive production costs. In total, the surface mount department has a capacity of over 300,000 component placements per hour with two Universal AdVantis AC 30 Lightning high-speed chip placement platforms, a Universal AdVantis AC 72, a Quad QSA-30 and a Quad QSP-2 pick and place machine, together with reflow ovens form Soltec, BTU and Speedline Electrovert. The company claims a position as the first UK contract electronics manufacturer to offer automated assembly of PCBs up to 1,200 by 500mm, including the vital solder paste printing process.