The flexibility of an electronics manufacturing plant is determined by the processes around the SMT line such as materials management, production scheduling, and especially setup techniques. In the latest edition of its series of SMT Insights brochures, the SIPLACE team presents a compact overview of new, progressive setup concepts. Interested readers will learn how to implement efficient, fast and even non-stop setup changeovers for small lot si...

Four months after acquiring the placement machine business from Siemens, ASM Pacific Technology (ASMPT) is highly satisfied with the progress of the integration. The former Siemens Electronics Assembly Systems was purchased by ASMPT, Singapore, at the beginning of 2011 and now operates as a business unit within the ASM Group under the name ASM Assembly Systems. During a recent visit in Munich, WK Lee, CEO of ASMPT, commented that the strategic, g...

SIPLUS extreme has been designed to protect automation systems from environmental hazards commonly found in the oil & gas, water & wastewater, pulp & paper, metals & mining, transportation, chemicals, cement & glass and the shipbuilding industries.

The new version of its SIPLACE OIB, Siemens Electronics Assembly System now offers an optimized multi-vendor integration platform for electronics production. With SIPLACE OIB, applications from different vendors can exchange data with each other in order to completely and transparently map the SMT process chains in heterogeneous IT infrastructures. SIPLACE OIB can link previously isolated applications both horizontally across different machines a...

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 wit...

With its technical innovations, its gantries that can be exchanged within minutes and the SIPLACE Multistar CPP placement head with its very large component spectrum, the SIPLACE SX placement platform sets new standards in electronics production. Beyond these more technical aspects, the capacity-on-demand concept of the SX Series uses Rent-a-Gantry to open the door to groundbreaking new business models, which are becoming increasingly important f...

According to the latest market analyses conducted by Siemens Electronics Assembly GmbH & Co. KG (SEAS), electronics manufacturers are heavily investing in SMT equipment again. The main growth engines continue to be plants in China and the rest of Asia, but orders from Europe are also on the rise for SIPLACE and other equipment suppliers. In the first five months of its current fiscal year from October 2009 through February 2010, the SIPLACE team ...

To help electronics manufacturers be more productive and successful, the high complexity of the various steps in the SMT process chain requires that all participants develop innovative solutions jointly and as early as possible so that workflows can be simplified and improved. This applies in particular to the placement of irregular BGA components. Until now the irregular ball distances have made them difficult and time-consuming to describe and ...

S-series tape feeders have been important components of Siplace placement machines for many years. With its new 3x8 mm shutterless S-feeder, Siemens Electronics Assembly Systems (SEAS) has introduced another improved version in the series. Fewer movable parts mean longer life and more reliability. The new feeder also handles a broader spectrum of components and makes the user’s job easier. As a special benefit, owners of classic 3x8 mm feede...

Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D) has acquired Opto-Control Elektronik Prüfsysteme GmbH of Bochum, Germany. The purchase adds high-precision automatic optical inspection (AOI) systems to Siemens’s Siplace surface mount technology business. Opto-Control’s technologically leading inspection systems are fully automated and use the latest 3-D sensor technology to detect any solder or placement flaws with exceptional speed.