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Product of the week

Dispensing solder paste of 100µm diameter
Flexible SMT production has reached new dimensions. Pick-and-place machines have now expanded their applications to include complex dispensing tasks. Indeed, such combined placement/dispensing machines can produce products at lower costs than... ...FULL STORY

26 July 2010

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This weeks releases...

Optical inspection system for automated conformal coat inspection  (26 July 2010)
GOEPEL electronic now offers a system for the automated optical inspection of fluorescing conformal coating. The TOM system (Teachable Optical Measurement) can be used for the inspection of PCB coatings as well as PCB areas, which must not be......FULL STORY

Fluxer spray head reduces flux consumption  (26 July 2010)
SEHO Systems has completely redesigned the fluxer area of its wave soldering systems, and as a result, both the flux consumption and maintenance times are remarkably reduced, decreasing manufacturing costs in electronics production. The ATS Spray......FULL STORY

A Valid VIP  (26 July 2010)
Supplier in test and production solutions, Seica, will be demonstrating their latest printed circuit board test and assembly solutions at this year's Autotestcon show. Taking place in Orlando during September, Autotestcon will be the platform for......FULL STORY

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Also this month...

Providing the Ultimus  (19 July 2010)
Medical device assembly is a demanding task that requires very precise control of every step in the process - including the way adhesives, RTV silicones, epoxies and other fluids are applied to join, seal and fill components. Applying the correct......FULL STORY

Custom equipment  (19 July 2010)
Blakell Europlacer has announced that conveyors, buffers, loaders and unloaders, gates, turn units and workstations are features that are available as standard and customised products and can be developed on request in order to fit special......FULL STORY

Industry’s first single source SuperSpeed USB test suite  (19 July 2010)
LeCroy has launched the industry’s first single-source line-up of test instruments to comprehensively support the USB 3.0 standard; also known as SuperSpeed USB. The USB 3.0 Test Suite is an integrated selection of test instruments that addresses......FULL STORY

REVEAL all  (19 July 2010)
The REVEAL Imager Series is an AOI system for the semiconductor industry which aims to decrease assembly costs and improve the quality levels of image sensors and camera modules. This versatile AOI from Vi Technology provides automated inspection......FULL STORY

Shop floor tracking  (12 July 2010)
Contract electronics manufacturer Inovar has introduced its Shop Floor Tracking System; an all new system developed in-house to improve the monitoring and management of products throughout production. With Shop Floor Tracking, products are tracked......FULL STORY

World's first signal and real-time spectrum analysers up to 30GHz  (12 July 2010)
Rohde & Schwarz launches the R&S FSVR family; the first to combine the functions of an all-purpose signal and spectrum analyser with a real-time spectrum analyser. In real-time mode, the R&S FSVR detects everything from sporadic events to......FULL STORY

New performance per square metre record  (12 July 2010)
Siemens Electronics Assembly Systems (SEAS) has unveiled its latest placement machine, the SIPLACE SX4. As a high-speed addition to the SIPLACE SX platform, the four-gantry machine boasts placement speed of up to 120,000cph on a footprint of only......FULL STORY

Dispensing two-component abrasive fluids  (12 July 2010)
Techcon Systems, a product group of OK International, has released a data sheet for its TS5000DMP Series Rotary Valve. The TS5000DMP series takes a revolutionary approach to solving some of the most difficult applications, including dispensing......FULL STORY

LED placements in SMT assembly  (05 July 2010)
APS Novastar has released its LS60V-LED Automated SMT Pick and Place machine to specifically address customers' requirements for longer LED panel lengths, LED package nozzle dimensions and material selection. It uses the company’s touchless......FULL STORY

Boundary Scan integration solution  (05 July 2010)
Goepel electronic and Agilent Technologies have jointly announced the UCM3070 Boundary Scan plug-on Module for the Agilent Utility Card. The two companies have released the UCM3070 Boundary Scan plug-on module for the Agilent Utility Card of the......FULL STORY

Terminal and wire training kit  (05 July 2010)
Practical Components’ WTK-1 terminal and wire training kit includes everything needed to train and practice wire-soldering skills. The kit contains three different gauges of wire and five styles of terminals, and comes complete with a Terminal......FULL STORY

Desoldering and soldering through-hole components  (05 July 2010)
Seho Systems’ PowerRepair soldering system has been designed for professional desoldering and soldering of through-hole components. The system features the well-known wave soldering technology to enable desoldering and soldering of......FULL STORY

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