Mar 08, 2012 
Nordson DAGE, a division of Nordson Corporation (NASDAQ: NDSN), announces that it will highlight its new X-Plane™ technology in Stand C7 at the upcoming National Electronics Week (NEW) South Africa, scheduled to take place March 13-14, 2012 at the Sandton Convention Center in Johannesburg.
“Nordson DAGE continues to view South Africa as a strategic region for the future and has a good number of systems installed that are providing a high level of customer satisfaction in the area. We have been very active in this market for six years and will continue to bring our unique technology-driven market leading systems, together with unrivalled service and support, to South Africa,” Keith Bryant, Nordson DAGE’s Global X-ray Sales Director. “Please visit our stand for more information and to find out about X-Plane, a recently released option that is creating a huge buzz within the PCBA industry with its unique advantages.”
X-Plane™ is a revolutionary option for its range of industry-leading X-ray inspection systems that uses a proprietary, patent applied for tomosynthesis, or CT technique, to create 2-D X-ray slices in any plane of a printed circuit board assembly, without the need to cut or destroy the board. In this way, the superior image quality that Nordson DAGE X-ray systems always provide can now be extended into separating individual layers at a level of excellence that the traditional laminography technique cannot achieve. X-Plane™ technology is quick, simple and easy-to-use. The board is placed in the Nordson DAGE X-ray inspection system and oblique-angled X-ray images are taken 360° around the region of interest. X-Plane™ shows the position and size of voids at joint interfaces and other locations within BGA, CSP, QFN, LGA, etc. Additionally, the technology can identify Head-on-Pillow (HoP) and open joints.
Headquartered in Aylesbury, UK, Nordson DAGE is a unit of the Nordson Corporation and manufactures and supports a complete range of award winning digital X-ray inspection systems and bond test equipment for the printed circuit board assembly and semiconductor industries. For more information, visit www.nordsondage.com.
Nordson Corporation delivers precision technology solutions that help customers increase speed, productivity and up-time, enable new products and features, and decrease material usage. The company engineers, manufactures and markets differentiated products and systems used for dispensing adhesives, coatings, sealants, biomaterials and other materials, fluid management, testing and inspection, and UV curing and surface plasma treatment, all supported by application expertise and direct global sales and service. Nordson serves a wide variety of consumer non-durable, durable and technology end markets including packaging, nonwovens, electronics, medical, appliances, energy, transportation, building and construction, and general product assembly and finishing. Founded in 1954 and headquartered in Westlake, Ohio, the company has operations and support offices in more than 30 countries. Visit Nordson at www.nordson.com, twitter.com/Nordson_Corp, or Facebook.com/Nordson.
