SMT equipment vendors use the terms "board" and "panel" in different ways, which can cause confusion.
In Arch product user interfaces:
- "board" means a single electronic circuit board that will ultimately be used within some product
- "panel" means a set of electronic circuit boards that are passing through the SMT line at the same time as a group
Here is a comparison of the terms some SMT equipment vendors use for what Arch calls a "board" and "panel."
| Arch Systems | board | panel |
| ASM | panel | board |
| Fuji | block | panel |
| Keysight | board | panel |
Because ASM and Keysight (for example) use the terms with opposite meanings, there's no way to pick a single naming convention that is consistent with all vendors.
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