Features like SIPLACE Alternative Components, SIPLACE LED Pairing, the new SIPLACE SmartGUI with video support and the company’s flexible setup strategies deliver more stable production processes, less downtime and more productivity. One year after the acquisition of SIPLACE by the ASMPT Group, electronics manufacturers can see "live" at the Nepcon Shanghai how they, too, can benefit from the pairing of German engineering and Asian efficiency (SIPLACE booth: Hall 1 F30).
A little over one year ago, the Singapore-based ASMPT Group, the market leader for backend solutions in electronics production, acquired the SIPLACE team and turned it into an integrated business unit operating as ASM Assembly Systems. To benefit from this strategically advantageous positioning, the company has raised its strategic objectives, says Günter Lauber, CEO of ASM Assembly Systems, about the Nepcon 2012: "It is our declared goal to make ASM Assembly Systems the world’s No. 1 supplier of SMT equipment. In our company we combine in a unique manner the best traditions of German engineering with its innovative strength and quality with the efficiency, the dynamism and the flexibility of Asian companies."
The SIPLACE DX placement platform: Optimum performance for the price
The new SIPLACE DX is a prime example of how customers will be able to benefit from the pairing of German engineering and Asian efficiency in the future. It was designed especially to meet the needs of Asian electronics plants. While its compact design with component tables reduce the purchase price and the cost of ownership, the superior pickup concepts of the SIPLACE high-performance heads, intelligent SIPLACE X-feeder, high-precision linear drives on all axes and state-of-the-art software ensure the highest placement performance.
As a result, the SIPLACE DX4 delivers a maximum speed of 135,000 cph. Even based on the IPC standard, the SIPLACE DX4’s derating is very low with its top speed of 110,000 cph – including for the high-volume placement of 01005 components. And with a real placement speed of 56,000 cph on a footprint of only 1.5 x 2.5 meters, the SIPLACE DX2 is tops in performance per floor space unit. ASM Assembly Systems designed its new SIPLACE DX platform to appeal to the growing number of medium-sized electronics manufacturers in Asia who want to offer their customers a high level of quality without losing their cost advantage in a highly competitive market.
SIPLACE software optimizes the productivity of lines and processes
The software provided by equipment manufacturers is becoming an increasingly critical factor for productivity improvements. To demonstrate their technological leadership in this field, the SIPLACE technicians will also demonstrate many new software features in the SIPLACE Challenge Arena at the 2012 Nepcon show as well.
With the SIPLACE Alternative Components function, for example, users can now define multiple component versions for the same placement position. When the production switches to such second-source components, the machine recognizes this automatically and adapts instantly. With SIPLACE LED Pairing, users can efficiently automate their brightness class management, because the multitude of approved LED-resistor components can now be easily entered and administered in the placement program in the form of a list. The system reliably recognizes any permitted combination and places the appropriate components with no need for manual interference.
The SIPLACE SmartGUI provides a simple, easy-to-use operating interface that quickly localizes and identifies malfunctions on the line. Based on this data, it then plays step-by-step troubleshooting steps in the form of user-friendly videos. As a result, problems can be fixed much more quickly and reliably – even with less experienced personnel.
More information about these and other innovations and everything else the SIPLACE team has to offer at the Nepcon 2012 show is available at
www.siplace.com/Nepcon2012.
