Live demos of P&P equipment at APEX
Live demos of Assembléon Pick & Place equipment at APEX
Las Vegas (US), April 1, 2008
Assembléon will show live demonstrations of several of its advanced Pick & Place machines at this year’s Apex (April 1-3, Las Vegas, NV, booth #2512). The flagship AX-501 and AX-201 will star on the booth, both with single digit defects per million and low lifetime ownership costs. Assembléon is also showing the enhanced multi-functional MG-1R and MG-8R machines and the new MG-3 high speed chipshooter. Alongside these will be the cost effective Opal-XII, especially suitable for small to medium batch manufacturing where component versatility and feeder capacity are the main priorities.
A-Series machine: setting a benchmark for lowest defects
Assembléon’s A-Series Pick & Place range sets the industry benchmark with its single digit placement defects per million. According to Assembléon Americas’ president Leo van de Vall, at Apex the company is stressing its ‘Performance Guarantee’ over the whole equipment lifetime. “With 6-sigma design criteria, Assembléon offers board manufacturers best-in-class first pass yield over the whole Pick & Place machines’ lifetime”. With components as small as 01005 (0.4mm x 0.2mm), the AX-501 places up to 121,000 components per hour (IPC9850 reference speed) at a placement accuracy of 40 micron at 3 sigma.. The advanced AX-201 places complex, fine-pitch, odd-form, bare die products and other types of components with an accuracy as good as 20 microns at 3 sigma.
The A-Series shares a common user interface and has identical feeders, trolleys and placement heads. Modular equipment design makes it easy to scale production volumes up and down, even producing single prototypes. The machines work with high product mixes in automotive, industrial, telecom, consumer and related sectors.
Enhanced maintainability and reliability
Assembléon has also recently reduced the lifetime costs for its MG-1R and MG-8R Pick & Place machines, with design improvements in maintainability and reliability. These machines are for high-mix production, and place a wide range of components including chips and complex and odd-form components. That makes for effective stand-alone and in-line use in industrial, consumer, automotive and other industries. Another recent member of the family, the MG-3 chip shooter, aims at high speed and high accuracy environments. It can be used standalone, or in combination with the MG-1R and/or MG-8R.
Rounding off the display at Apex is Assembléon’s X-Series Opal-X-II machine, a fully featured and cost effective solution with up to 100 feeding positions. With its high-precision single-placement, handling components from 01005 to components up to 15mm tall, it places up to 17.7k components per hour with 40-micron accuracy.
