Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 23 12:44:48 EDT 2002 | daanterstegge
Another issue to look at is the efforts that it takes to become familiar with the machine. Where I work we are also looking into AOI machines, and one of our requirements (based on how simple the vendors say their machines are) is that after no more
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 20 14:23:50 EDT 2002 | larryk
PizzaFred, Scott mentioned lots of good ideas. Take one of your boards to each vendor and see what it takes to program the board how long it takes for it to become online. I've found some that are easy to program, but require 40 or more assemblies to
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 23 13:08:47 EDT 2002 | dragonslayr
Daan has made a valid point with regards to expertise and use of a machine. Yet I recognize that with advanced technology, trades must occur. A hghly sophisticated AOI unit can and will help reduce overall cost of production. Therefore, a need to ha
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 19 21:46:01 EDT 2002 | scottefiske
In the past year I was responsible for developing and leading a Team focused on AOI, Evaluation, Justification, and with a full ROI required, supporting a HMLV manufacturing environment. If you have in these economic times the additional resources t
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 19 16:58:04 EDT 2002 | dragonslayr
You definitely need to have live demos of each system, using your specific assembly if you want to compare apples to apples. Each of the AOI OEM's you mentioned have plus amd minus to their unique systems. You will need to evaluate your specific nee
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 22 12:30:34 EDT 2001 | slthomas
Now that's an approach I've never thought of, inspecting a different portion of each board (I'm assuming that you program a few different patterns and run them sequencially, or something like that). I know our stencil printers don't provide that opti
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 03 17:00:57 EDT 2001 | mparker
Start with a definition of what you expect the AOI to achieve at each station. Will your in-line machine be post print? Place (pre-reflow) or post reflow? Rather than buy one very expensive machine to put at the end of the line, maybe a couple of
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 22 12:39:58 EDT 2001 | andyy
From the manufacturer's perspective, we aim to be able to fully inspect all components within the beat rate of the line and generally do. I'm not aware of any competitive machines that do the random sampling that is suggested above, however it is do
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 03 09:21:08 EDT 2001 | Ian T
hi my company is planing to purchase an aoi system to be used inline. is there anyone out there doing this, if so do you use all the machine options (pattern character recognition, bad board marks, correct part polarity...) or do you dumb it down(pa
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 06 06:23:31 EST 2007 | clampron
Good Morning Roger, The Mirtec's can be adjusted to lower your false call rate. This can be done by reducing the matching percentage for each componnent but the result of this action is that the machine becomes less selective. If you lower them too
