SAN DIEGO, CA – Intraratio, a provider of enterprise software solutions, is pleased to announce its participation in productronica 2023. The exhibition is scheduled to take place Nov. 14-17, 2023 at the Messe München in Munich, Germany. Intraratio invites all attendees to explore their innovative solutions at Hall A3, Stand 409.

Intraratio is at the forefront of providing advanced manufacturing software solutions that offer real-time visibility and control for Semiconductor and Surface Mount Technology (SMT) electronics manufacturing operations. Their comprehensive suite of smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0 solutions encompasses:

Seamless Factory and Equipment Integration (Data Automation/IoT): Intraratio ensures that your factory and equipment are interconnected, with no third-party software or middleware required, providing a cost effective and robust foundation for data-driven decision-making.

Full-Featured Manufacturing Execution System (MES / RunCard): Intraratio’s MES solution, RunCard, optimizes manufacturing processes, streamlining operations and enhancing efficiency.

Serialized Product Traceability: Intraratio empowers manufacturers with end-to-end product traceability, ensuring quality and compliance throughout the production lifecycle.

Real-Time Yield and Quality (DataCard): With DataCard, Intraratio offers real-time visibility into yield and quality, enabling proactive measures to enhance product quality and reduce waste.

Global Supplier Data Management (ServiceCard): ServiceCard simplifies global supplier data management, fostering collaboration and efficiency in the supply chain. These solutions are enriched by cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) based analytics, which facilitate outlier detection and predictive maintenance. Intraratio's offerings are designed to accelerate the digital transformation journey of customers in the electronics manufacturing industry.

“We are excited to participate in productronica 2023 and showcase our innovative smart manufacturing solutions,” stated Ryan Gamble, CEO & Founder at Intraratio. “With our ability to service today’s most innovative and complex electronics manufacturing companies, from Silicon Photonics to advanced SMT, our real-time visibility, control and data-driven decision-making aligns perfectly with the theme of the event. We invite all attendees to visit us at Hall A3, Booth 409, to explore how our solutions can empower their manufacturing operations."

Discover the future of smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0 with Intraratio at productronica 2023.

For more information about Intraratio, visit www.Intraratio.com 

REDDITCH, UK – Altus Group, a leading distributor of capital equipment in the UK and Ireland, is pleased to announce the addition of the Quins Flex Series to their portfolio of optical inspection solutions for electronics manufacturing. With high-resolution imaging and flexible configurations, the Flex systems streamline quick setup inspections, first article examinations, and spot checks for enhanced efficiency.

The Quins Flex Series offers a range of advantages tailored to electronics manufacturing. It accelerates image acquisition, simplifying assembly verification and quality control procedures to enhance operational efficiency. This ensures that errors can be quickly and easily corrected, and only tested boards proceed to the soldering process. This results in substantial time and cost savings, as well as minimised quality-related repairs.

Quins Flex features a substantial headroom of over 400 mm, facilitating thorough inspection and ensuring a comprehensive verification process. In its THT variant, Quins Flex allows manufacturers to perform immediate and efficient inspections following assembly, helping to minimise errors and optimise overall productivity.

Quin's Flex provides a versatile solution that caters to a diverse range of inspection requirements, making it an indispensable tool for a wide spectrum of quality control needs.

The Quins Flex Series comprises an illuminated THT assembly station with a real-time reference display. The inspection process is easily initiated and can be executed through various methods, including alternating image inspection, MOI in Quins Easy Plus, or the innovative Automatic Inspection Process (AIP).

Quins Flex features a high-performance 20-mega pixel camera that enables fast image capture, and has specially designed LED lighting, ensuring uniform and consistent illumination to deliver precise image quality.

The Quins Flex Series includes two configurations - a table-top workstation ideal for manual optical inspection, and a conveyor belt-mounted version that seamlessly integrates with automated production lines. The conveyor belt model uses an external stopping mechanism to hold boards in a fixed position, enabling automated inspections triggered by product entry and exit. Both versions are available in THT and SMD configurations, offering varying resolution and image size options tailored to specific needs.

Joe Booth, CEO of Altus Group, shared his thoughts: "Our experience with Quins systems in the UK and Ireland has been highly positive, with numerous implementations across our CEM accounts. With the addition of Quin's Flex to our portfolio, addressing a new use case, I'm confident it will align well with our customers' needs. It's a sophisticated yet user-friendly tool, and I'm certain that our commitment to developing solutions tailored to customer needs will lead to even more successes in the future."

Klaus Kornhaas, CEO of Quins, added: "At Quins, we are dedicated to listening to our customers' needs and developing solutions, whether they involve software or hardware. The Quin's Flex embodies our commitment to innovation and precision. We are pleased to introduce this product ahead of Productronica, where it will be showcased, and we believe it will set new standards in electronics inspection."

Electronics manufacturers can leverage the specialised LED lighting integrated into the Quins Flex Series for optimum, uniform illumination without shadows. The SMD version features two oblique-light units, while the THT version includes two additional indirect top-light units, ensuring even illumination across the entire area, to enhance image quality.

For automated inspection, the Quins Flex Series can utilise Quins’ AIP software module. AIP automatically checks for correct component presence, position, and polarity by comparing assemblies to trained reference models, ensuring the highest level of quality control.

"The Quins Flex Series offers the configurability and performance for efficient manual or automated optical inspection," said Joe. "We are excited to add this innovative solution to our portfolio and believe it will strongly resonate with customers across our CEM accounts."

The Quins Flex Series will be officially launched at Productronica. If you would like to find out more about this innovative technology, or if you would like to see a demonstration during the exhibition, contact Altus Group, www.altusgroup.co.uk

SAN DIEGO – KIC, a renowned pioneer in thermal process and temperature measurement solutions for electronics manufacturing, is thrilled to announce its participation in the upcoming productronica 2023. The event will take place on November 14-17, 2023, at the esteemed Trade Fair Center Messe München. Miles Moreau, General Manager, will be on-site in Hall A4, Stand 214 along with the KIC Europe team to engage with industry experts and engineering professionals, and discuss the latest developments and innovations.

At the event, KIC will highlight its groundbreaking advancements in process optimization and recipe refinement strategies as well as their latest state-of-the-art sensing technologies. These innovative solutions are designed to address challenges related to defects reduction, improved Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), product quality, oven performance tracking, and innovative thermal profiling methodologies.

The dynamic landscape of electronics manufacturing, especially within the automotive, medical, and aerospace sector in Europe, demands intelligent utilization of extensive data to foster flexible, efficient, and successful manufacturing operations. KIC’s acclaimed "Heat to Data™" approach presents a comprehensive ecosystem encompassing all facets of electronics assembly and semiconductor packaging thermal processes. The company's solutions effectively tackle the challenges of temperature profiling, process setup, and inspection/monitoring, while also facilitating automation, traceability, and connectivity across diverse sectors including automotive, medical, aerospace, network, and military markets.

For inquiries, please contact: eu.sales@kicmail.com 

For more information about KIC and its revolutionary solutions, please visit www.kicthermal.com 

ATLANTA – Koh Young Technology, the industry leader in True 3D measurement-based inspection solutions, will deliver live demonstrations of its award-winning inspection machines and smart factory software during the SMTA Guadalajara Expo and Tech Forum in Jalisco, Mexico on October 25-26, 2023. Additionally, Heriberto Cuevas, Regional Sales Manager for Mexico will take part in a roundtable about the application of artificial intelligence for automated optical inspection. The following previews what Koh Young will demonstrate at the show:

Solder Paste Inspection (SPI)

We introduced the concept of 3D measurement-based solder paste inspection – and it revolutionized the inspection industry. Today, manufacturers recognize the value of the 3D measurement data and use the data to improve the print process, in turn, improving production yield and quality. Today, 3D SPI has become a standard requirement for SMT lines – it is no longer optional. The KY8030-3 is our SPI workhorse, and the most popular SPI solution in the electronics manufacturing market. With patented dual-projection technology, we deliver trustworthy and repeatable measurement data, which manufacturers can use to reliably optimize the print process.
KY8030-3 Industry’s Fastest True 3D SPI Solution with Integrated Auto-Repair Dispenser

Printing Process Optimization

The Koh Young Process Optimizer (KPO) solution is an AI-based automatic print process optimizer. This system improves the printer offset, as well as critical printer parameters like squeegee speed, print pressure, and separation speed. KPO performs an automated DOE to determine the optimum printing parameters for the best print quality. As a result, manufacturers can optimize the print process, without the need for a dedicated print process expert. Furthermore, KPO monitors and perfects parameters in real-time to guarantee quality despite environmental changes.
KPO Printer Award-winning AI-powered print process control software

Automated Optical Inspection (AOI)

The Koh Young AOI Zenith Series delivers perfect inspection performance with True 3D measurement technology. In the 2D inspection world, false calls and escapes are unavoidable. To solve this problem, we took a different approach. We based our solution on full 3D measurement technology, not 2D technology and its inherent shortcomings or 2D with some 3D capabilities bolted-on to help. At Koh Young, the Zenith measures all components in True 3D. We find the component body based on true 3D profilometric information. Using this approach, we provide trustworthy inspection results, regardless of component or board color variations. When our 3D measurement data meets artificial intelligence, we can deliver even more advantages to manufacturers.
Zenith Alpha Best Value True 3D Automated Optical Inspection Solution

Dispense Process Inspection (DPI)

The award-winning Neptune is the industry’s first 3D optical measurement solution for transparent material inspection. Using Koh Young LIFT technology (Laser Interferometry for Fluid Tomography), the Neptune delivers non-destructive 3D inspection to precisely measure and inspect fluids – wet or dry. With its Machine-Learning algorithm, the Neptune accurately measures materials for coverage, thickness, and consistency with a user-defined threshold setting. It also identifies bubbles, cracks, and other defects in coating. It also measures underfill, epoxy, bonding, glue, potting, flux, and more to deliver an exact measurement of transparent and translucent materials.
Neptune C+ Award-winning True 3D In-Line Dispensing Process Inspection (DPI) Solution

Automated Pin Inspection (API)

Incomparable 3D Inspection Capability. The KY-P3 quickly and accurately measures pin height for presence, absence, offset, coplanarity, tip and shoulder height, absolute/relative critical distance measurement, fork pin separation, and spacing pitch. Built on its world-class True3D inspection technology, the KY-P3 Series breaks through barriers associated with inspecting products containing a mix of both SMDs and pins.
KY-P3 Best-in-class Measurement Accuracy and Inspection Reliability

Process Control Software

AI-powered KSMART solutions help automate process control, while focusing on data management, analysis, and optimization. It collects data from across the factory for defect detection, real-time optimization, enhanced decisions, and traceability to improve production, increase quality, and lower costs by eliminating variances, false calls, and escapes.

KSMART Seamless Smart Factory Software Suite Turning Data into Insights

To learn more about how our solutions boost your quality, visit us at the SMTA Guadalajara Expo & Tech Forum during 25-26 October 2023 at the EXPO Guadalajara in Jalisco, Mexico. You can register to attend the in-person conference and exposition at www.smta.org/events. If you cannot attend the show, you can still learn more about our best-in-class inspection solutions at our regional website www.kohyoungamerica.com