A high-speed component placement machine is placing chips from 1206 down to 0402 used in a company’s central heating electronic programmer and timer products.
Kaisertech has supplied an Assembleon Topaz XII high-speed component placement machine to Danfoss Randall, the domestic heating controls specialist. The new machine, part of Assembleon’s Gem range, is being added to an earlier version of Topaz which has been in use at Danfoss for several years, the company also has other similar units on a separate line, making a total of four Topaz placers at the company’s Bedford plant. Kevin Hannah, engineering manager at Danfoss says that the new Topaz unit was chosen because of the existing machines’ good track record, commenting ‘exceptional reliability and service back-up coupled with the fact that there have been no major breakdowns gave us every confidence to purchase more Assembleon machines’.

At Danfoss the Topaz units are placing chips from 1206 down to 0402 used in the company’s central heating electronic programmer and timer products.

In addition the Topaz can place a wide range of SMDs including PLCC, QFP, BGA and GSP at placement rates of up to 19,500 components per hour.

Board sizes up to 460mm x 440mm and components up to 6.5mm high can be handled.