Advanced Rework Technology – The Winning Formula

Posted on May 28, 2025

With the uncertainty of the economy and the vast number of electronics manufacturing companies within each sector, companies are looking at ways to stay ahead of the game, streamline, save time and money and remove unnecessary links in your supply chain.

We believe the winning formula is Advanced Rework Technology for all of you training, product and process consultancy, audit preparation and inspection report requirements. Why use multiple companies when just one company can provide the necessary resources to increase quality and productivity and help to bring down your rework numbers?

Advanced Rework Technology have been established for over 30 years and progressed within the industry to becoming a world leader as an IPC and bespoke training provider.

Whether you require certified or bespoke training courses, ART have the knowledge and trainers to support your needs. Many companies often do not have the need for certified training but would like to provide evidence that their personal have received industry based training to support the needs of the product or process. ART specialise in preparing and presenting bespoke syllabuses working closely with each customer to ensure the content, duration and theory versus practical proportions meet their exact needs.

ART can offer bespoke courses based around many industry lead subjects that can include but not limited to:-

Introduction to hand soldering
Rework of surface mount devices
Rework and repair of printed circuit assemblies
Wire and terminal assembly and soldering
Cable and wire harness assemblies

Should you customer or internal quality plan require official IPC certification, ART, as an IPC Approved Training Provider, offer IPC certified courses to all three levels of instruction, Certified IPC Trainer-CIT, Certified IPC Specialist-CIS and Certified Standards Expert-CSE. Choosing the right level of certification for you is important. Becoming certified allows individuals to provide keen insight to your company on IPC standards and how they are applied within manufacturing.

CIS training and certification is appropriate for any individual that will benefit by having a consistent understanding of the criteria in a standard. Line operators, engineers, quality engineers will find this training and certification beneficial for their knowledge in the electronics industry.

The Certified Standards Expert (CSE) is a subject matter professional with a high level of knowledge and understanding of a specific IPC standard or group of standards and will allow the CSE to: –

Act as a subject matter expert for their organization, answering standard related questions, providing support to various levels of the organisation, and interpreting the standard for their organization.
Update the organization on the latest standards and best practices from industry.
Interface with designers and process engineers to develop assembly processes.
CITs are authorised to deliver and administer CIS training and certification examinations to individuals who wish to gain IPC Certification without the need for contracting external trainers.

ART is proud to announce they are one of the only a few training centres globally that can offer ALL of the IPC programmes to all level of training, this includes both of the Space and Military Addendums for Cable and Wire Harnessing-IPC/WHMA-A-620 and Space and Military Addendum for Requirements for Soldered Electrical and Electronic Assemblies-J-STD-001

ART can offer the following IPC certified training: –

IPC 6012, Qualification and Performance Specification for Rigid Printed Boards
IPC-A-600, Acceptability of (Bare) Printed Boards
IPC-A-610, Acceptability of Electronic Assemblies
IPC/WHMA-A-620, Requirements and Acceptance for Cable and Wire Harness Assemblies Revision E now available.
J-STD-001, Requirements for Soldered Electrical and Electronic Assemblies
IPC-7711/7721, Rework, Modification and Repair of Printed Boards and Electronic Assemblies.
Certified Interconnect Designer and Enhanced Interconnect Designer

Standardisation is a dynamic function of the electronics industry and is constantly evolving. ART Ltd work with IPC to continually move forward with improvements and best practices to support manufacturing.

Managing Director, Debbie McDade, who chairs many IPC committees including vice chair of IPC Technical Activities Executive Council and Chair of European Standards Development and European Training committees, to name a few, explained why Advanced Rework Technology should be your training provider.

‘ART training staff are highly experienced with every part of the industry from design, fabrication, through to assembly and quality and inspection so this will assist the trainer with every step of their teaching which makes our courses second to none. The staff here at ART also dedicate their time to sitting on numerous IPC standards Development and Training Committees. This gives us the added advantage and skills required to not just teach the latest requirements, but fully understand the changes to the technical standards and associated training courses. For our knowledge, skills and dedication, we are proud to be the recipients of many industry and IPC awards. In particular, recipients of the prestigious IPC Presidents Award.’

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