Assembléon celebrates partnership with Yamaha at APEX

Assembléon is showing Pick & Place equipment from Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. alongside its own to celebrate the broadening of its 20-year old trade partnership at this year’s Apex (Stand 459, Las Vegas, March 31 – April 2). The partnership – the industry’s longest running between a European and Japanese company – was recently extended to give Assembléon global dealership for Yamaha machines outside the Far East.

Alongside its own flagship A-Series, which sets the industry benchmark for lowest (single-digit) defects per million placements, Assembléon will be showing its new MC (Modular Compact) Pick & Place platform, the YS100 Pick & Place machine, and the YGP screen printer. It will also be demonstrating its manufacturing support software for medium- to high-volume, high-mix batch production through to ultra-high volume continuous production of electronic assemblies.

Modular Compact platform reduces manufacturing costs

After the successful introduction of the MC-12 at last year's APEX, Assembléon has added the MC-8 and MC-1 to form a complete Pick & Place platform. Multiple features across the MC Platform help reduce costs in high-quality high-mix production lines, and the platform also shares the same user interface as Assembléon’s new YGP screen printer. This printer has a unique servo-driven squeegee with variable attack angle to improve solder filling levels. It is the only machine on the market to vary the blade contact angle 'on-the-fly', in software, and so delivers the precise amount of solder paste needed by each component. That gives consistently flat and even solder deposits – even on boards mixing large and small components.