Increased demand for automation solutions in electronics manufacturing
Sectors such as mechanical engineering, electronics and the automotive industry are facing significant digitization and automation solutions. Because Industry 4.0 is no longer a theory these days.
Automation solutions are on the agenda everywhere: From the small business with its own production to the medium-sized company or manufacturing service provider to the corporate group - successively the rapidly changing market requirements must be implemented in order to remain competitive. FUJI EUROPE CORPORATION GmbH, an internationally active specialist for electronic placement machines, is experiencing increased demand in the area of automation of placement assembly processes.
SMTconnect 2019 in Nuremberg
"At the SMTconnect 2019 trade fair in Nuremberg, we could clearly see a higher demand for automation and digitalization - in the direction of Industry 4.0 solutions. We generated three new customers during the trade fair and were already able to register another one before the trade fair. In particular, solutions that contribute to process automation are increasingly attracting the attention of companies from different industries," explains Klaus Gross, Managing Director of FUJI EUROPE CORPORATION GmbH.
Handling future component generations with scalable placement machines
Assmy & Böttger Electronic GmbH, for example, has decided to use the automatic placement machine from FUJI. The company sells electronic system solutions worldwide for the agricultural industry, automotive technology, shipping, renewable energies, mechanical engineering, aerospace and security technology. With a total of seven modules of the worldwide known FUJI NXT series in the third generation, Assmy & Böttger uses a scalable placement platform with which the company can also meet the requirements of future component generations.
NXT III/IIIc (c = compact version) is particularly suitable for the assembly of multifunctional and high-performance electronics with, for example, a high assembly density of tiny components and much more.
Anton Paar GmbH develops, produces and distributes analytical instruments as well as automation and robotics solutions. The Austrian company specializes in the manufacture of instruments for density and concentration measurement as well as rheometry and the determination of dissolved carbon dioxide. The company opted for four FUJI pick-and-place machines of the AIMEX series in the third generation because of the guarantee of flexible high-mix production. The all-in-one AIMEX III/IIIc (c = compact version) pick-and-place machine is the industry leader in loadable part count and is characterized by versatility, high quality and simplicity.
Also MEINBERG radio controlled clocks (www.meinberg.de) relies on the AIMEX solution. The company develops and manufactures electronic modules as well as systems for time and frequency synchronization. With two automatic machines of the AIMEX IIIc series, flexible production with a variable mix of high placement performance and versatile product mix with small batch sizes is supported with immediate effect.
The AIMEX placement machine also recently convinced an internationally active solution provider for industrial embedded electronics. The company, based in Switzerland, integrates the AIMEX IIIc four times.
"Short changeover times and flexibility as well as increasingly automated processes in electronics production are essential requirements today. The latest generations of our pick-and-place machines from the NXT and AIMEX series are designed precisely for these challenges. For example, they can be easily linked with machines from other companies via M2M communication. With various tools and interfaces, we support the automation of placement and printing processes as well as other production-relevant tasks," explains Klaus Gross.
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