Component Management
Gemini Integrated Electronics announce the launch of its own solder fume extraction device to complement its range of bench top ESD equipment.
As a result of customer requests and ongoing in-house developments, Gemini Integrated Electronics has introduced a new solder fume extraction device to complement its range of bench-top ESD equipment. The extraction unit is ideally suited to areas where space is at a premium.
Essemtec Introduces New Cobra Feeder Cart
The new Cobra Feeder Cart from Essemtec holds up to 90 feeders and reels. The cart simplifies the set-up of SMD pick-and-place machines and facilitates feeder handling. Ninety fully loaded feeders are quite heavy but, with Essemtec’s Cobra Feeder Cart, they can be moved through production quickly. The cart also doubles as an easily accessible feeder storage platform.
High Demand For Scorpion, Essemtec’s New Dispensing System
Since the premier of the Scorpion at productronica 2011 in Munich, Essemtec has noted a record high in demand – and rightly so! Due to its outstanding price-performance ratio, the new dispensing machine is among the best dispensers in the world. Its accuracy of +/- 25 μm is extraordinary and it can dispense up to 100,000 dots per hour.
Professional Printing in a Tabletop Format - Essemtec Debuts Fino Programmable Precision Printer
Compact, precise and exceptionally easy to use: These are the characteristics of Fino, the new printer from Essemtec. The programmable precision printer can be placed on a table, making it is ideally suited for smaller, flexible production. Optionally, the printer is available mounted on a robust steel stand.
Kea: High-Precision Stencil Printer for Versatile Production
The new Kea from Essemtec is the preferred screen/stencil printer for versatile production processes that value high quality and process control. Its software controls all printing parameters, and it is converted quickly and setup easily.
Essemtec to Highlight New 3-D Dispense and Placement System
Essemtec has developed this fully automatic 3-D dispensing and SMD placement machine Hydra in a close collaboration with a producer of 3D-MID products. The system operation of Hydra is similar to a standard SMD pick-and-place machine. Therefore, it can be integrated easily into a typical electronics production.
Essemtec’s Cobra Picks Four Components at Once
Essemtec’s Cobra is the world’s first machine that features the Quattro-Pick feature, allowing it to pick four components from four different feeders simultaneously. It is therefore faster than other pick-and-place machines with multi-nozzle pickup head.
Manncorp debuts 2-pot dual-wave solder machine for easy lead-free/Pb switchover
PCB assemblers -- particularly contractors -- faced with the need to go lead-free while maintaining a tin/lead soldering presence, will welcome Manncorp's 16.350 wave solder machine. In place of the usual single pot, the 16.350 can now be configured with two pots on roll-out carts to provide lead-free-to-Pb switching with ease.
Essemtec’s Cobra Feeder Threads Tapes Quickly
Essemtec’s Cobra Feeders simplify and hasten setup of component reels to SMD pick-and-place machines. Regarding speed, accuracy and reliability, these feeders rank in the world’s top class. They integrate an active tape pull-back system as well as a cutter. Cobra Feeders now are available for both 8 and 12mm tapes.
Essemtec Introduces Fast Tray Changer for Cobra and Paraquda
The new TCQ automatic Tray Changer can replace a component tray in less than five seconds and align it with accuracy better than 50µm. The 18-bin changer is available for Cobra and Paraquda pick-and-place machines. Essemtec will highlight the new module at the upcoming productronica 2011 exhibition in Munich, Germany.