Welcome to SMT Plus' training and publishing website. SMT Plus was founded by our President, James C. Blankenhorn, in 1985 in San Jose, CA. The company was noted in its early history as a major design and prototype assembly company specializing in SMT. As well, SMT Plus provided training, primarily for CAD designers.

In 1988 the design and assembly portions of the company were sold to Jabil Circuit Inc., one of the largest subcontract design and assembly firms in the U.S. During the period 1988-1991 Mr. Blankenhorn was an employee of Jabil Circuit Inc. while still conducting some training courses. In 1991 Mr. Blankenhorn returned to work full-time at SMT Plus. Since that time the course offerings and the number of publications have expanded.

It is the intent of SMT Plus to be able to provide users of SMT, or in related technologies, reference materials and courses that will enhance their success. Starting in 1996 SMT Plus pioneered efforts to develop and bring online technical courses that were of great value to our worldwide customer base. In the future you can expect more multimedia products to be offered by SMT Plus to meet the needs of our clients and take full advantage of advancements in technology using the Internet.

We are pleased to bring this website to you. As many in this area we are learning a lot about websites and formatting and will continually be upgrading and adding to the information on our web page. So visit us once in a while and see what is new.