Surface mount technology is designed to make mounting of electrical components on PCBs easy and fast. To produce the high quality printed circuit boards at reduced costs, surface mount technology needs Surface Mount Components (SMC), advanced component connecting methods, new mounting techniques, testing methods, and set of new design rules. The electronic products that are made with SMT based printed circuit boards are known as Surface Mount Devices (SMD).

Here is the list of some benefits of PCB surface mount manufacturing over through-the-hole technique of constructing PCBs: