The New Pick and Place Machine

[steveblades00000]

This is so good, gonna buy myself one :)

[tubosolinas]

Nice machine but it could be with linear servos than high pitched ballscrews!

[donnyab]

how do they place parts on double sided boards and reflow them in the oven for that matter, are the sides placed and heated separately ?

[anceop]

@donnyab i too have the same question

[Mbert42z]

big freakin table of components but still think a good ol mc-8 is better at tray placement machine. Especially spacewise

[limyoucun]

fast response



[thefattestman22]

SCV ready!

[anceop]

what about soldering? is it done at the time of placing components?

[touchwood1]

@anceop

What happens (usually) is solder paste is placed on the solder pads on the pcb

then the pick and place machine puts the components on the board

then it goes in a reflow oven where the solder paste melts to for the connections

[anceop]

@touchwood1

thanks touchwood1 usually what is the temperature of reflow oven? about 250 degree centigrade?

i am asking this because i have some solder paste and i want to solder some smd components so i want to know the temperature to set in my hot air machine.

[touchwood1]

@anceop

i would think 250 would do the minimum melting point for lead solder is 183 Are you using lead free solder paste or the normal paste?

[haarvey919]

This is the closest thing to porn we'll ever see on Youtube.

$52K though? I have to think the open source community can do the same thing for 1/10th of the price.

[adisharr]

@haarvey919 There are quite a few components on that machine. Take a look at all the cartridge feeders on the side. Each one of them is pretty sophisticated in itself. I'm sure they could come up with something but you better have a hell of a lot of time to dedicate to building one.

[eggfooyoung24]

Whats the droppage like on 0402's?

[Humor4life12]

that is sexy

[bcsupport]

how much did the machine cost ?

[iamascam]

@bcsupport It says in the description...

[Fusionx916]

i wish i had one of those

[sulliee101]

i hope you're wearing esd footstraps....

[DingoHammer]

Are those BeagleBoards it is making?

[sshzp4]

@DingoHammer FTDI usb 2 serial maybe. Certainly not beagles.

[drtune]

@sshzp4 "Bus pirate" board - it's making two at the same time

[douro20]

They had no need for a $500k Fuji Electric machine which would populate this board in seconds...

[gordonfreemanq]

wow thats awesome, thanks for showing that

[Mbert42z]

What a slow piece of crap except that it probably can make boards with large components. only one nozzle?? looking at that board a topaz-xII could do that in maybe 40 seconds and it costs about the same i think. An emerald is super old and uses 2 nozzles and can handle big components which that board has none of.

[turkuas23626]

is it for home use otherwise it is not so useful for companies

[LauxHawk]

If only I had the money. Damn that thing moves quick....

[dominicanno809]

great machine... and great music...

[azayles]

They should have a "Man Versus Machine" world championship contest. Find the fastest human manual pick n placer, and pit him/her against this thing :P

Winner gets a goodiebag of stuff from SF :D

[hellfire584]

@azayles the man would never win this machine is slow compared to others ive seen

[Gameboygenius]

@azayles Yum! Me robot! Me like tasty goodiebag from SF!

[VladiGB]

Nice!!

[DanFrederiksen]

nice. is this a service they offer out or just for inhouse products?

and it is slow to setup for other boards?

[toober529]

Good video up to the point the tattooed "duuuude" in the itty-bitty-brim beanie and hemp bracelets enters the picture.  "PANTH ONA GROUND!" ;)

[maclover201]

Awesome! Makes me even more glad to live in Denver! :D

[m4rl0nj]

Great Industrial Music !!!

[BlackJavaBean]

$52K? Hmm, I better place an order to help finance that fancy new toy. Glad to see you guys growing - you're definitely one of my favorite electronics suppliers and one of the best electronics references too!

[oehrlein49]

Beautiful! You guys should make a video explaining how the production process works and how this machine fits into it. It would be really interesting!

[jigglesnap]

Someone needs to make music out of this

[ajcrm125]

I'd love to see the rest of the process:

milling the pcb, applying the soldermask, flowing the solder... etc.

[Roymond911]

does it sodder the components on or how do u keep them from falling off

[frank26080115]

i think you are supposed to make a stencil first, then apply solder paste using the stencil. the paste would be slightly sticky, enough to hold the parts in place. that machine does not solder though

[jigglesnap]

The solder paste is sticky. If you want them to stay in place upside-down, you get a machine that can squirt a dab of glue underneath first.

[Kitinetnies]

coolest machine evar. all it needs is rockets.