No need to place wrong parts ever again?
No need to place wrong parts ever again?
Keywords SurPass Technologies, Pick and place
SurPass Technologies has announced the release of the PVS 901 series. This series will complement the PVS 801 series released earlier and is designed to stop the placement of wrong parts on printed circuit boards by pick and place equipment.
PVS 801 was designed to eliminate the placement of wrong parts on Pick and Place systems with moving feeder reel assemblies. The PVS 901 offers the alternative of verifying component placement of pick and place systems with fixed feeder locations. This is achieved through the use of unique feeder ID codes to identify specific feeders and IR tag technology to identify the feeder location.
An IR tag is a small electronic tag that stores a unique code. The code can be read from the tag via infrared (IR) transmitter and receiver circuits. The tag is mounted at a suitable position on a component feeder and a corresponding IR reader array is mounted on the machine. The reader array can interrogate the tag on every feeder on the machine without the need for any moving parts.
PVS901 consists of two main parts: a PC based loading station, similar to PVS801 and the machine mounted IR reader array and machine interface controller. The loading station PC runs the familiar PVS core software there is virtually no difference in the user interface between PVS801 and PVS901. The loading station block is fitted with an IR tag reader that automatically reads the IR tag on a feeder when it is placed on the feeder block.
Both the PVS 801 and the PVS 901 are closed loop verification systems intended to make the set up and production using Pick and Place technology faster and more efficient. Verification takes place in real time and has zero impact on machine cycle time, while giving the production control staff the ability to track operators who make changes on the system.
Further information: Declan Kennedy, SurPass Technologies. WWW: www.surpass-tech.com; E-mail: Info@surpass-tech.co
