GenRad's new Summit 750 improves productivity
GenRad's new Summit 750 improves productivity
Keywords: GenRad, Rework
GenRad, Inc. has announced the Summit 750 entry-level rework system, designed to improve productivity and reduce production line failures for contract and original equipment manufacturers of electronic circuit boards.
Faced with tight margins and increasingly more complex circuit board designs,electronic manufacturers are moving to ball grid array technology and placing greater emphasis on reducing "negative yield" due to production line failures. The Summit 750 allows circuit board manufacturers to "rework"circuit boards, so they meet exacting product performance specifications, reduce failure-related losses, thus increasing production line productivity.
The Summit 750's worldwide market embraces electronic manufacturers from such divergent product areas as implantable cardiac pacemakers to handheld communications devices to broadband switches and Internet routers.
As a low-cost, fully integrated "rework station", the Summit 750 is ideally suited for electronic manufacturers adopting ball grid array technology in a surface mount environment, a market expected to grow by about 35 percent per year.
The Summit 750 enables manufacturers to transition from traditional leaded devices to ball grid array technology, where there is a need for high-yield,automated rework systems.
Built on GenRad's Summit 1100 platform, the 750 offers contract manufacturers and OEMs a cost-effective solution with the same robust industrial design and renowned ease-of-use of the Summit series.
The Summit 750's industrial design ensures reliable and repeatable performance that meets the rigorous demands of high-speed and high-volume manufacturing environments. The Summit 750 is part of GenRad's family of rework systems developed by Sierra Research & Technology (SRT), which was acquired in 2000.
Technical reference
For technical reference, the new GR-X 4005™ and GR-X 4010™transmissive X-ray systems are manufactured under patents 5,535,423 and 5,541,856. The 3D images are created using GenRad's Digital Tomosynthesis technique under patents 5,594,770 and 5,500,886.
Further details: www.genrad.com
