S.T.I. is the leader in high quality printed circuit board repairs.

Over the years some of the elite clientele has included such giants as: INTEL, Fairchild, Raycal Dana, Hewlett Packard, Varian, Seagate, NASA- AMES Research Center (the outside acting company for NASA). Scot Thompson, owner and technician of S.T.I. has had over thirty years experience in the industry. At a young age, he started repairing circuit boards at his father's company Diceon Electronics in Irvine, California. Diceon was a pioneer in the PCB manufacturing industry. During this time, eyelets were used to make thru whole connections for double-sided PCBs. Scot spent many years in final inspection creating new ways to repair rejected boards to make orders ship their full quantities. Diceon, the world's leader in PCB manufacturing, advanced into the new era of multilayered PCBs. In the early seventies, his father's sales reps would bring in fully assembled/damaged boards in need of repair from vendors. Scot met the challenge to perfectly repair boards both functionally and cosmetically. Boards repaired by Scot were both perfect to the naked eye and under the microscope as well.

In Silicon Valley in the late seventies and early eighties, Scot formed S.T.I. During this time S.T.I. repaired boards for a dozen PCB manufacturers and large assembly companies. One of S.T.I.'s most notable solutions was for NASA-Ames Research Center. They had a problem with then the world's largest computer, the Iliac-4. It had been failing for some time, due to undersized board thickness thru the gold contact tab area. This was not allowing the contacts to make good connection due to undersized board thickness. The boards were 10 thousandths undersized. Ames put the project up for bid to replate both sides of the gold contact areas. Scot proposed an alternate solution to their problem, and submitted his sample. He showed them that plating up that amount to increase the thickness would cause problems. By pushing down with a burnishing tool on the gold contacts, this would make the plating pop off resulting in the computer short circuiting. He then showed them his sample board, that he milled thru the center of the tab region and epoxied in a strip of base material that was the right thickness when pressed and allowed to cure. This created a thicker and cosmetically perfect repair. AMES qualified S.T.I.'s solution for the repair and awarded the contract for all 5000 boards.

Through the years, S.T.I. has been committed to a handful of large companies; we are the only approved repair service company for these. S.T.I. is known for its same day turn around, seven days a week. It boasts of never having had a late shipment, even during ramped up times with high volume.

Recently, a new customer sent S.T.I. a dozen assemblies that had been repaired at a different repair facility. Their problem, besides these assemblies being over two weeks late on return, was that when new components were installed at the repaired sites the pads when heated were coming loose and lifting. The boards were then sent to S.T.I. for proper repair, so beware of any company claiming to have used adhesive -backed pads. The competition's methods for replacing pads is ineffective. S.T.I. is the only company with an effective solution using higher-bonding peel strength, and heat resistance for repair.

S.T.I. has continued with the ever-changing advances and innovations in PCB manufacturing, and has met the challenges to create new techniques in PCB repair. S.T.I. is known for their cutting edge technology in repairing micro blind vias making connection from under the SMT pads. These repairs are trouble-free for S.T.I.

S.T.I. is known in the market for its dependability and same day turn around time.