What's the adhesive Sleeving and Boots inspection criteria in PC/WHMA-A-620?
Sleeving and boots are common in cable assembly manufacturing, it's a good way to protect the cable and connector and their joint area. For Top-cable, we always follow IPC/WHMA-A-620 standard if the connector manufacture or customer don't define the criteria.
Criteria applies to adhesive boots.
Acceptable - Class 1
Defect - Class 2,3
• Void or separation between the boot and connector.
• Non-parallelism of boot and connector face exceeds 10° in either axis.
Defect - Class 1,2,3
• Boot and adhesive build
Defect - Class 1,2,3
• Adhesive interferes with subsequent assembly steps.
