PCB Manufacturer, Domestic Circuit Board Production and Prototype

GROWTH & FINANCIAL STRENGTH Production & Prototype Saturn Electronics Corporation, is a Top 30 domestic PWB Fabricator managing the nuances between Quick-Turn Prototype Boards and High-Volume PCB Production while offering industry-leading Lead Free circuit boards that meet RoHS compliance. Financial Strength Saturn Electronics Corporation keeps bank debt at a zero balance. Our building and equipment are fully paid. Our financial strength has resulted in relationships with the largest suppliers in our industry- - as we are able to meet their latest demands through the continuous reinvestment of technologically- advanced equipment. Growth Saturn Electronics Corporation owns controlling interests in three PCB facilities (Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Atlanta), which enhances purchasing power and safeguards production. Industries Served We service a wide variety of customers with needs that vary from 5 pieces to tens of thousands of pieces. Our customers’ needs range from medium to fine line technology with delivery requirements from one day to three weeks. We have provided solutions for the following industries: l Aerospace l Automotive l Defense l Gaming l High-Precision Scales l Gaming l Membrane Switches l Medical l RF-Microwave l Telecommunications Company Contacts Nagji Sutariya President/QC Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . Nsutariya@saturnelectronics.com Ishvar Sutariya VP Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ishvar@saturnelectronics.com Perry Sutariya VP Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Perry@saturnelectronics.com Yash Sutariya VP Corporate Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . Ysutariya@saturnelectronics.com Syed Salam Customer Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Syed@saturnelectronics.com

C E R T I F I C AT I O N AS9100 Saturn was one of the first PCB Fabricators to attain AS9100 Certification. ITAR Saturn recently became a registered ITAR PCB Manufacturer ensuring that documentation, training and proper procedures are employed in the handling, use, and transfer of sensitive information complies with the Arms Export Control Act (AECA). ISO9000 & TS16949 Saturn was the first printed circuit board manufacturer in North America to achieve TS16949, which is a world-wide quality standard that replaced QS9000 in 2006. ISO 14001:Environmental This Certification states that Saturn Electronics Corporation complies with the requirements of BS EN ISO 14001:2004 for the scope of Manufacturer of PC Boards for Automotive, Commercial, and Heavy Equipment Industry. MBE Saturn is a Minority Business Enterprise certified with the Michigan Minority Business Development Council as defined by the National Minority Business Development Council for NAICS Code 334412, bare printed circuit board manufacturing.

OFFSHORE SOURCING Supply Chain Management In order to be a full service supplier to our customers, we also offer offshore sourcing for higher volume projects where cost constraints prevent domestic manufacture. We take pride in that we offer a great deal more value add than traditional overseas brokers, and even other domestic PCB fabricators offering the same services. Below is a table outlining just a few of these benefits. Materials Saturn Competitors Production/TS16949 Certified Domestic Facility as Many don’t even have a facility, just an office and/or backup. warehouse. Those with facilities are not production/ TS16949 certified. We audit and approve our suppliers in person per Many have not even visited their suppliers. Those that TS16949 audit procedures. have aren’t certified themselves to audit to particular standards. Offshore product is shipped out to customers under our The vast majority of our competitors lack this certification. TS16949 flag. All product is automotive certified, regardless of end use. ??? Saturn guarantees all offshore product with our No published guarantee matches Saturn’s. unmatched 5x guarantee. Saturn has personnel on-site in Asia to oversee our and Majority do not have any staff whatsoever in Asia. our customers’ interests. Saturn performs all engineering work domestically prior to sending files for offshore manufacture. This ensures ??? customers’ requirements are properly communicated. Saturn will keep inventory at Romulus, MI and ship to Customer is required to purchase and take delivery on releases. entire quoted quantity.

P R O D U C T I O N C A PA B I L I T I E S Technology Roadmap Our technological capability is totally customer driven. The following roadmap does not project bryond 2008 because it can change at any time. Materials Features Current Capability Future Capability Today’s Products Laminate Nominal Tg 260° C 260° C CEM-1 Laminate Nominal Td N/A 350° C CEM-3 Maximum Layer Count 24 24 .FR-4 Min. Finished Thickness .014” .014” 170Tg FR4 Min. Core Thickness .005” .004” - .002” Lead Free Maximum Panel Size 18” X 24” 20” X 24” Fabrication Features Current Capability Future Capability Today’s Products Minimum finished hole size .006” .006” Drilling Blind/Buried Vias .006” .003” - .002” Routing Routed Part Tolerance +/-.005” +/-.005” Scoring Scoring Tolerances +/-.003” +/-.003” Punching Imaging Features Current Capability Future Capability Today’s Products Minimum Lines/Spaces .004” .003”-.002” Photo Print Min. Quad Flat Pack Pitch .016” .016”-.012” Plugged Hole Minimum Pad Size .005”/side .005”/side-.004”/side Peelable Mask Soldermask Registration .003” .002” Soldermask Tolerance .002” 002” Plating & Surface Finishes Features Current Capability Future Capability Today’s Products Finished Copper Thickness 20 OUNCE Selective Finishes Hot Air Solder Leveling YES RoHS Compliant Lead-Free Solder (HAL) YES Heavy CU Full Body Hard Ni/AU YES Multilayer Immersion Gold/Silver YES

Industry Standard Saturn Electronics Saturn Electronics Corporation 28450 Northline Rd., Romulus, MI 48174 (734) 941-8100 Fax (734) 941-3707 Process Description BUYERS GUIDE 1 Copper Laminate (base Standard sheet sizes that are Standard panel sizes with saw-cut edges. material) sheared to size in-house. This significantly reduces contamination in subsequent processes (e.g., imaging, testing, etc.) 2 Drilling Drilling machine that requires tools Saturn’s lowest-end drilling machines are Excellon System 2000 and Century to be changed manually. Maximum 2001 CNC drillers. All of these machines are equipped with automatic mea- panel sizes are typically 18” x 24”. surement systems that measure drill bit length, diameter, spindle runout, and No control in Z-axis, +/- 0.002” hole broken drill bit detection. Essentially, these capabilities remove the human position accuracy/ element from these drilling issues, thereby minimizing the chance of operator error. Saturn also has three Mania Micronics 86 drilling machines. These machines incorporate the industry’s latest linear motion technology and 180k RPM high speed spindles. The use of linear motion increasing hole position accuracy from an industry standard of +/- 0.002” down to +/- 0.0005”, including in the Z-axis, which makes these ideal for controlled depth blind via drilling. 3 Image Room Enclosed room. Saturn has a Class 10,000 Clean Room. The environment in this room minimizes foreign material from creating com- mon shorts in the imaging process. Also, strict temperature and humidity controls prevent distortion in the customer artwork. 4 Imaging / Exposure Customer artwork is aligned manu- Standard: Saturn uses MultiLine equipped drawers for imaging. MultiLine ally by eyeballing the registration of tooling removes the human factor involved in lining up the bottom film to the the film to the drilled panel. top film. This results in significantly reduced off-registration issues. Light source is a single point light Advanced (inner layers): Saturn also employs the use of an Olec AX-28 source, making it not possible to use automatic exposure unit that uses two cameras to align the top and bottom on fine line images run on production artwork. This machine can hold registration as tight as +/- .0005 mils front to panel sizes. back for inner layers. Industry-Leading (inner and outer layers): Saturn has purchased and installed three Olec AT-30 automatic alignment exposure units. These units use four cameras to align artwork top to bottom, and then use panel motion systems to automatically adjust the panel position to a best fit to the artwork. Furthermore, these units have hybrid-collimated light units that ensure exposure light attacks the panel at 90 degree angles to the artwork, which is critical for fine line resolutions. 5 Plating Through Holes Manual dip tanks. Saturn employs two automatic electroplating lines and, as such, PTH is a two- (PTH) step process. Saturn has built a custom automatic plating line that has been designed and constructed primarily in-house. The intent was to minimize plating variation, which is the main goal of production plating. This was accom- plished by including the following: 1. It houses racks that only allow panels to be plated one-high. 2. Anode-to-anode distance is 28 inches (maximum allowable distance for plating). 3. Water-submerged positive cathode contact. 4. Chemical-submerged anode bars for positive contact. 5. Eductor system. This utilizes a highvolume chemical flow parallel to the panels instead of air to accomplish chemical agitation. 6. Mechanical agitation to allow chemical to flow through holes. 7. Vibration to remove air from microvias and blind microvias. 8. Dual-sided rectification to equalize copper plating from one side of the rack to the other. 9.State-of-the-art rectifiers (two per rack) with 0.5% maximum ripple effect. 10. Panels are now being plated at 15 amps per square feet (ASF), versus an industry standard of 45 ASF. This will result in more uniform plating, albeit lowered production. 11. High ductile plating process that meets C7000 specs for 1,000 hour cycle tests. 12. Chemistry has been revised so that high-aspect ratio plating can be per- formed. Both lines are calibrated to plate 10:1 aspect ratio as a standard. 6 Strip-Etch-Strip Conveyorized line that is capable of In 2008, Saturn installed a new Hollmuller SES line. This line incorporates producing 7 mil line/spacing. the latest in spray technology that minimizes chemical puddling. This is line capable to accurately and uniformly etch down to 2 mil lines and spaces. 7 Cleaning prior to LPI Manual dip tanks or small conveyor- Instead of using a chemical cleaning process that may increase ionic contami- ized chemical cleaning line. nation and compromise the surface finish, Saturn utilizes an Aluminum Oxide Jet Scrubber. This process uses an aluminum oxide slurry that is sprayed on the panels to remove copper oxidation. 8 Liquid Photo-Imageable Manual tables or AutoRoll machines. Saturn uses 2 DP- model LPI applicators to be used in lieu of AutoRoll solder- Soldermask mask applicators. For standard colors, Saturn also employs the use of two Argus spray coating lines. This will result in less soldermask within holes and eliminates dimple marks on the board surface. Furthermore, they will result in a much more uniform soldermask thickness across the product surface area. www.saturnelectronics.com

Process Description Industry Standard Saturn Electronics 9 LPI Image Customer artwork is aligned manu- Standard: Saturn uses MultiLine equipped drawers for imaging. MultiLine tool- ally by eyeballing the registration of ing removes the human factor involved in lining up the bottom film to the top the film to the drilled panel. film. This results in significantly reduced off-registration issues. Industry-Leading (inner and outer layers): Saturn has purchased and installed three Olec AT-30 automatic alignment exposure units. These units use four cameras to align artwork top to bottom, and then use panel motion systems to automatically adjust the panel position to a best fit to the artwork. Further- more, these units have hybrid-collimated light units that ensure exposure light attacks the panel at 90 degree angles to the artwork, which is critical for fine line resolutions. BUYERS GUIDE 10 LPI Developing Standard conveyor that is separated Saturn has conveyorized the developing, final baking, and cleaning processes from baking and cleaning lines. into a single production line. This should improve quality through reduced handling and utilizing higher-end machinery. Our developing line is constructed of a single-chamber, stainless steel developing line. 11 Final Baking Manual convection box ovens Saturn has installed a Bassi Tunnel oven to perform final baking. Since heat is uniformly applied to the boards and the machine controls the cycle time, quality is improved dramatically. 12 Cleaning Manual dip tanks. Saturn installed a Hollmuller conveyorized cleaning line in 2009, in line with the other major wet process upgrades we have made since 2007. 13 Hot Air Solder Leveling Vertical SnPb HASL. Pb-Free HASL Saturn has installed three Lantronics TT-30 vertical hot air levelers. These ma- (HASL) typically outsourced. chines were designed with the intent of using this finish on finer pitch devices than in the past. They hold the panels at 45° angles so that SMT pads are not at 90° or 180° angles to the air knives. Saturn uses two of these units for SnPb HASL, and the third for Nihon Superi- or’s SN100CL lead-free solder finish process. 14 HASL Post-cleaner LPI Cleaning line is also used as a Saturn has custom fabricated a high-pressure, high-temperature post-cleaner post-cleaner. for use after the HASL process. This is a stainless steel post-cleaner unit that runs at 150°F, sprays regular and D.I. water at 1 to 1.5 gallons per minute at 50 psi using 7.5 HP pumps (1/2 gallon per minute, 20-30 psi, 1.5 HP is the best available on the market). Fur- thermore, the cleaner uses 8-1” wide toothbrush-type agitating brushes versus an industry best of 4-0.5” brushes. This custom process has been proven to remove ionic contamination from the surface of PCBs to well below industry standards. 15 Inspection Visual inspection by personnel using Saturn augments its visual inspection process by utilizing automated optical a light table. inspection equipment. This equipment (hole checker) checks for holes that have been plugged by the HASL and LPI processes, incorrectly plated or non-plated holes, and drilled with incorrect drill bit sizes. 16 Electrical Testing Either clam shell tester or single fly- Saturn offers a variety of testing alternatives. First, Saturn has 5 Mania double- ing probe. sided, double-density grid testing machines. The fixture cost for these testers is half the cost or less than those used in more traditional clam shell testers since we build everything in-house. Also, Saturn utilizes six flying probe testers for smaller and prototype orders. This allows the customer to forego the cost of a hard testing fixture and, instead, pay a modest testing fee. Saturn Electronics Corporation 28450 Northline Rd., Romulus, MI 48174 (734) 941-8100 Fax (734) 941-3707 17 Cleaning after Routing Washer using city water. Saturn has installed a washer in its shipping department that uses de-ionized (D.I.) water to clean the boards. D.I. water results in a cleaner board, but more importantly it further removes ionic contamination that may have occurred after HASL. 18 Duplicate Processes Due to cost constraints, many PCB All of Saturn’s processes incorporate duplicate equipment so that in the case shops will not have duplicate pro- of an equipment failure, Saturn’s production capabilities will not be compro- cesses. mised. Furthermore, Saturn has controlling interests in three other domestic PCB fabrication facilities so that in the event of a catastrophic event, the supply chain will not be compromised. 19 Advanced Capabilities Minimal / Outsourced Saturn has grown from a technology standpoint exponentially since 2003. In-house capabilities include laser drilling, laser routing, PTFE plasma prepa- ration, Plasma treatment and etchback, and special project groups to assist customers with critical and technologically demanding products. 20 Minimum Hole Size .015” .002” 21 Minimum Line/Spacing .007” / .007” .003” / .003” 22 Surface Finishes HASL HASL; Lead-Free HASL; Immersion Silver, Immersion Gold 23 Quality Certification No certification is viewed as stan- ISO 9000, TS16949, Delphi C7000, ISO14000; AS9100 dard. 24 Financial Liabilities No standards available. $ 0 Bank Debt $ 0 Accounts Payable $ 0 Lease obligations www.saturnelectronics.com

HOW SATURN DISTINGUISHES ITSELF FROM COMPETITORS Our commitment to quality allows us to offer our unmatched product guarantee of up to 5 times the cost of the PCB to cover components and labor applied to products with opens or shorts! CORPORATE PCB CERTIFICATIONS $ 26 Million Annual Sales TS16949 Debt-Free PCB Manufacturer ISO9001:2000 Board Manufacturing History AS9100 PWB Technology Roadmap ISO14001 IPC-1710-A Minority Business Certification PCB Fabrication Flowchart ITAR Certification Corporate Presentation UL USA Certification UL Canada Certification PRODUCTS / CAPABILITIES PCB FAB SERVICES Up to 24 Layers Quick-Turn Prototype PCB 3 mil line / space Quick-Turn PCB Production Heavy Copper PCB Small-High Volume PCB Production Thermal Management Board Certified Offshore PCB Sourcing Blind / Buried Vias Open Cavity PCB Internal Cavity Board PTFE / RF-Microwave Board 28450 Northline Rd., Romulus, MI 48174 Phone: (734) 941-8100 Fax: (734) 941-3707 www.saturnelectronics.com Certified MBE (Minority Business Enterprise)

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