The option allows for leads to be inspected during the insertion process and has been adapted to the company’s odd form assembly systems.
 
A camera has been mounted to a programmable X-Y stage below the board and inspects the leads once they have been inserted. The programmable stage allows the camera to move with the robot to each new location on the board as well as to multiple locations on the board for each insertion required for large parts.
 
"Driven by our customer demands to trap defects of Odd Form thru-hole components during the board assembly and not at a distant test station, Chad Industries developed a new vision tool and process to meet these needs," said Scott Klimczak, president of Chad Industries. "With this new design we are inspecting the component leads where it matters, after the part has been inserted."
 
The tool uses Adept Vision sAVI.
 
Chad Industries, chadindustries.net

 

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Neither an operator nor a maintenance technician is required to scrape solder paste from the bottom of a wash tank. Prevents solder paste from entering a waste stream, eliminates direct contact between an operator and the paste. 

Available in SonicOne G3 automatic stencil cleaning systems and will be introduced on semi-automatic models throughout 2006.

Aqueous Technologies Corp., aqueoustech.com

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2-D vision inspection option on the 4710 detects lead defects. Is compatible with a high-speed camera, verifies all leads are within some tolerance before the chips are shipped to the customer. Detects edge pitch, which identifies skewed leads at 0.02 mm and trend edge position, which identifies lifted leads at 0.04 mm.

Used on automated programming systems, the vision system mounts onto a tape loader and integrates with BP Win and Jobmaster.