Electronics Assembly Technology 2nd Edition

Wolfgang Scheel
Electrochemical Publications Ltd, IOM
939+xvii pp. Figures: 611 (40 colour plates)
Tables: 158 References: 1,408
GBP 109.00, USD 218.00 plus p&p

Keywords Assembly, Electronics technology, Books

Let me start by making it quite clear that this book is a translation from the German, Baugruppen-technologie der Elektronik Montage , which is in its second edition. It has never been published before in the English language. It is a peculiar book, written by a group of very eminent Germans, each specialising in a fairly narrow field of activity. They have a very great in-depth knowledge of each subject, but it would appear that none of them has a wide knowledge base covering the whole theme of the book, because there are a number of subjects that one might expect in a tome of this size but which are glossed over or simply omitted. This does not mean that the book is worthless far from it but it does mean that a beginner would need some other sources of information to gain a whole picture.

It seems strange that a book of over 950 pages should have only nine chapters, although the first one is numbered zero! I feel that the authors of the Guinness Book of Records would be interested in chapter 4, which starts on page 130 and ends on page 501. I have known many technical books with fewer pages than this chapter!

Although the book has been translated from German, the standard of English...