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SMT Engineer - Dimitri:
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 | High rate of throughput with in-line processing |
| Oxidations-free pre-heating and soldering process |
| Homogeneous temperature distribution over the whole assembly |
| Overheating the solder product is impossible |
| No shadowing or colour selectivity |
| Reproducible process conditions |
| No time-absorbing generation of temperature profiles |
| Low production costs |
2005-Quarter 3
Millison can provide you with Lead-Free and ROHS compliant assembly services. Our first Lead-Free boards were produced around May 2005, and Lead-Free is now a regular production item in the Millison factory.
A Typical Lead-Free soldering profile can be viewed here.
2005-Quarter 1
The addition of the new generation X Series Yamaha placement machines has generated the requirement to significantly update our line programming software.
After looking at several options, we chose the Tecnomatics Assembly Expert software.
This software allows us to take a customers CAD file, and generate our Pick and Place machine programming including line balancing and optimisation.
Some of the benefits provided are:
| Multi Vendor Machine/Series Support. |
| Line Optimisation and Balancing. |
| Multi vendor CAD Import (currently we have Protel and mentor Expedition). |
| Faster conversion / tooling times. |
2005-Quarter 1
Millison now has the ability to X-ray our BGA solder joints. We are now placing thousands of BGAs per annum and felt the need to improve our inspection of the underlying solder joints.
Millison has chosen the Glenbrook RTX-113 X-Ray system to provide our BGA Inspection.
From the Glenbrook web site:
The RTX-113 is designed for heavy production environments where X-ray is used to
inspect PCBs and assembled PCBs containing advanced components such as BGAs,
uBGAs and Flip Chips. The system is very versatile and features Glenbrook's
patented, award-winning X-ray camera technology that generates high-resolution,
high-sensitivity images, revealing defects as small as 0.001 inch with a full
one inch diameter field of view. The RTX-113 provides affordable real-time X-ray
imaging, reliable operation and easy servicing.
Applications:
| Multi-layer PCBs |
| Small Hole Drilling |
| BGA Inspection |
| Backplane Boards |
Specifications:
| 42"H x 42"W x 24"D |
| Contrast Resolution: Can resolve .001 gold wire |
| Spatial Resolution: 20lp/mm (with MicroTechTM option, up to 100lp/mm) |
| Anode Voltage: 35-52kV |
| Anode Current: 20-50 microamps (internal adjustment) |
| Focal Spot Size: 0.2mm |
| Focal Spot to Image Plane Distance: 4-6 inches |
| X-ray Activation Mode: foot pedal or timer switch |
Options:
| Image Processing/Advanced transfer capabilities |
| Video Printer |
| XRTV Zoom Camera (4X-50X magnification) |
| Micro-TechTM 10-micron X-ray Source (225X) |
| Dual-Vu™ package for simultaneous x-ray and visual inspection. |
| BGA and Void Measurement software |
| Manual/Motorized X-Y positioner |
| Variable Angle Viewing allows 45 degree viewing |
2005-Quarter 1
Over the Christmas 2004 period, we have significantly upgraded our SMT lines through the addition of a Yamaha YV88X Full Vision placement machine with two W-ATS auto tray stackers, and the reconfiguring of our SMT production lines.
The X series Yamahas are current generation high performance full vision placement machines.
Some of the benefits to our customers are:
| Almost all SMT components can now be machine placed by our lines providing they are supplied in a machine loadable format (e.g. not loose), largely eliminating hand placements of SMT parts. |
| The 88X provides additional capabilities, such as placement of 0201 components, full BGA ball recognition etc. |
2005-Quarter 1
We are pleased to announce that
Rolly has joined us in the position of Line
Engineer. His primary task is to ensure products flow through our production
system. Rolly joined us in January 2005. He has brought a wealth of talent and
experience to our organisation and is proving to be a valuable member of our team.
Feel free to contact Rolly with any of your production engineering or 'design
for manufacture' issues.
2004-Quarter 4
We have added Selective Wave Soldering to our capabilities, due to the increasing number of double sided SMT boards that are simply unsuitable to wave soldering.
We chose the Ersa EcoSelect 250 as our entry into the world of Selective Soldering.
This is a small right-sized machine provides us high quality soldered joints as a replacement for hand soldering.
The down side??? Well boards need to be designed with the selective wave process in mind. In particular, we need 3mm clearance around the components to be soldered on the solder side.
For more information on this process, its benefits and its design requirements, please contact Paul Isaacs on 8793-9500.
2002-Quarter 2
Millison has added Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) to its line capabilities with the purchase of two Marantz 22Xfv AOI systems.
These versatile desktop systems provide a full range of inspection including:
| Missing and out of place components. |
| Component Polarity. |
| Reflowed solder joint inspection. |
| Solder paste deposition inspection. |
More information about the capabilities of these systems can be found on our Inspect and Test page.
If you would like to see these systems in operation or discuss how they could help you, please call Paul Isaacs on 03 8793-9500 or 0417-806-688.
Are your PCB’s stressed?
Depaneling
PCB’s can be a stressful business. Millison takes the stress out of breaking
out PCB’s.
We have added ‘V Notched’ board break out capabilities to our production line with the recent purchase of the CAB Maestro 3E de-paneliser.
We can break out your ‘V
Notched’ boards using our CAB Maestro 3E depaneling tool, or your routed
boards using our CAB Hektor pneumatic depaneling tool. These tools are designed
to inflict minimal stress on the PCBs, significantly reducing the chance of
damage to the boards.
Some clients are still receiving their boards from us in panel form and subsequently breaking out their boards using ‘stressful’ techniques. We would be pleased to talk to you about breaking out your boards in the future using our low stress equipment.
For more information, please call Paul Isaacs on 03 8793-9500 or 0417-806-688.
Chris Herbut has
joined us in the position of 'SMT Engineer'.
Chris is our process guru who helps make our products to flow through the SMT assembly system. Chris came to us after approximately 9 years with Telspec, in which time he worked in a variety of positions from SMT assembly through to operations support.
We are extremely pleased to have Chris onboard with us.
Chris should always be able to help you with any assembly or process questions that you have for your product and is contactable on 8793-9500 or can be emailed as:
The key to a low SMT
conversion cost at Millison is our Proyam software.
Proyam is a piece of software that was commissioned by Hawker Richardson to allow owners of Yamaha pick n’ place machines to convert the popular Protel software into Yamaha placement data. Hawker Richardson kindly agreed to let Millison continue the products development and improve the product for our own use. The feature set of Proyam is now significantly enhanced and tailored to our environment.
What do we need?
All we need are your Protel files and Bill Of Materials (BOM) to ensure the PCB data is correct.
How does it work?
We take your PCB file, generate a BOM and check / update the PCB file. The PCB file then becomes the ‘master’ data and is ‘signed off ‘ back to the supplied BOM and client. The PCB file is imported into the Proyam software, generating placement and feeder data from the file, as well as optimising the placements and balancing the load across multiple machines.
Some of the benefits that we get from our investment in the development of Proyam are:
| Improved production throughput through:
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| Support for PROTEL, PADS, PCAD or universal CAD data. |
To you this means low setup and conversion costs combined with guaranteed accuracy.
If you would like any more information on SMT CAD conversion or the setup process, please call Chris Herbut or Paul Isaacs of 03 8793-9500.
