SIPLACE X-Series: Maximum efficiency in LED placement

8th April 2010

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With new options and software functionalities, the SIPLACE team continues to expand its leadership in the rapidly growing market for LED placement technology. This kind of investment protection means that electronics manufacturers are able to populate current and future generations of large-area backlight units (BLUs) with LEDs in order to meet the rising demand for ever larger television sets, PC monitors and notebook screens. In combination with the powerful SIPLACE 20 segment Collect and Place heads and the vision systems of the SIPLACE X-Series, today’s SIPLACE machines are already able to place many different sizes of LEDs with dimensions of up to 6 x 6 mm from tapes and other feeder modules in high densities and with exceptionally high speeds. In addition, the conveyors of SIPLACE X-Series machines will be adjustable to handle PCBs with lengths of up to 800 mm in the future.

Using SIPLACE software, electronics manufacturers can respond to the rising diversity and frequent product changes in the BLU field by quickly switching placement programs, placement modes, transport modes and feeder modules.

With their superior performance in terms of durability, reliability and energy efficiency, LED backlighting has become a standard technology for displays, monitors and television sets. The market for LEDs is rising steadily at a rate of about 20 percent annually.

BLU size and efficiency are the major challenges

To enable electronics manufacturer to satisfy the rising demand for ever larger screens on the global market for displays and television sets, the SIPLACE team recently introduced a series of technological innovations. In the future, the company's SIPLACE X placement machines will be able to handle and populate boards with lengths of 800 millimeters and more for the new generations of television backlight units.

With the high number of LEDs that have to be placed (between 30 and 80 LEDs per BLU module and up to 17 BLU modules per board), SIPLACE’s Collect & Place heads easily demonstrate their superiority. While other placement heads must constantly travel back and forth to pick up the components from a track, the rotating SIPLACE Collect & Place heads can stay in their pickup position and merely move their nozzles, thus achieving significantly high pickup and placement rates. For example, a SIPLACE X4 equipped with four 20-nozzle SIPLACE SpeedStar placement heads achieves a real placement performance of up to 90,000 LEDs per hour while being able to handle all popular LED sizes – including the larger LEDs of the future with dimensions of 6 x 6 mm or 8 x 8 mm.