Problems and faults in high speed pick and place assembly machines, as used in the circuit board manufacturing industry, have traditionally been difficult to solve due to their high speed.
With pick and place rates in excess of 10 per second now commonplace, it has become increasingly difficult to diagnose machine faults and alignment issues, simply because the motion is too fast to see.
Combine this problem with the decreasing tolerances required by modern circuit board design, and it is obvious that solving problems on these machines is becoming increasingly difficult without specialised and expensive tools.
Australian manufacturing service company, Process Vision , offers a professional high speed camera service on an hourly basis, to take the guesswork out of pick and place fault finding.
Using the recent ultra slow-motion imaging equipment, Process Vision takes high-definition, full colour footage of the pick and place motion at up to 2000 frames per second. This footage is then replayed much more slowly, frame by frame if necessary, to reveal process detail that is too fast for the eye to see.
Using this information, the root cause of many process problems is quickly and accurately found without wasting costly process time using the change something and see if it gets better approach that is sometimes used when machine speeds exceed the ability of the human eye.
Process Vision has combined the recent high speed camera equipment with vastly experienced manufacturing engineers to provide a potent and cost effective solution to circuit board assembly problems.
Process Vision engineers are available 24hrs, 7 days a week to service demanding manufacturing companies.