Circuits Assembly - December 2008 - (Page 45) SPOTLIGHT Ergonomic Workbench Easy Lift has 20” of adjustable work surface. Serves as a workbench, assembly station and adjustable desk. Table moves vertically and has a 250 lb. load capacity. Comes standard with a 24 x 30” static dissipative powder-coated steel tabletop with ESD-safe Blue Softsurface matting material. Has foot pedal and adjusts from 19” to 39”. Bliss Industries, blissindustries.com Product ‘Constant Vacuum’ Pickup Tip Stealth-Vac operates directly on 30 to 70 psi compressed air or nitrogen. The normally open vacuum pen contains a venturi vacuum generator. With compressed air supplied at the rear of the tool, the pickup tip is said to have constant vacuum available. Includes 6’ of 1/16” coiled vacuum hose, 1/8” NPT to 1/16” barb adapter for the supply line, and vacuum-generating handle. Virtual Industries, virtual-ii.com Boundary Scan I/O Digital Module CION Module/DIMM240 enables testing of all signal and voltage supply pins of Jedec-compliant DIMM240 sockets for DDR2 SDRAM. Several boards of the same or different types can be cascaded in a daisy chain configuration. All channels can be independently switched as Input/ Output/Tristate. Provides special safety mechanisms. Goepel electronic, goepel.com Pb-free Wave Solder Machine C250 is 50” x 30” and handles boards up to 10” wide in its adjustable corrosion-resistant finger conveyor. Is equipped with automatic defluxing, IR preheating, air-knife cooling and a low-volume solder pot. Is available in single or dual wave configurations for through-hole and surface mount assemblies. Includes built-in solder pot loading, a maintenance platform with locking support mechanism and dial-adjustable wave height control. Manncorp, manncorp.com/wave-solder/c250/ 400-lb. Loader/Unloader BlissLift now has a wider base for assembly applications. Reportedly doubles the speed of repetitive load/unload tasks. Permits loading of 19” rackmount chassis into a 19” rack on a shipping pallet; legs straddle the pallet. Is said to be ideal for loading chassis onto storage carts and racks. Lifts loads up to 400 lb. Bliss Industries, blissindustries.com Fast-Setup Selective Soldering Rhythm EX offers a selective soldering range of 24 x 24”; no manual rotation or adjustment is required. Offers closed-loop servo-driven X, Y, and Z-axis motion that articulates the solder wave and flux beneath the PCB. Designed for high-mix or highvolume production. Reportedly programs in minutes. Includes independently heated and programmable nitrogen inertion and quick-change solder nozzles for keep-away (less than 1.5 mm) and lead protrusion clearance (6 mm). Wave height management, system standby and startup, conveyor width and vision are automated. rPS Automation LLC, rpsautomation.com FPD, CRY Display Tester U8101A display tester is for custom setups for visual testing of up to five major display formats. For testing FPD and CRT displays, and LCD panels in PC and TV manufacturing. Is said to support all major analog and digital interfaces and permits future upgrades. Has multiple plug-in card slots to customize instrument configuration. Uses a 5.7” color LCD display and Windows-based GUI. Can select different display formats, test configurations and other frequently used functions on front panel. Has capability to recall up to 16 test sequences and patterns. Agilent Technologies, agilent.com Rework, Re-solder Unit PC-controlled Martin “Expert” Pb-free rework station version 9.6 is said to automatically accomplish any stage of SMT repair, from removal to replacement, as well as the re-solder of BGAs, CSPs, µBGAs and other SMDs. A high-res camera combined with auto-vision placement controls component positioning in full and continuous view of the operator. IR underheating unit adjusts to exact board size. Manncorp, manncorp.com circuitsassembly.com Circuits Assembly DECEMBER 2008 45 http://www.virtual-ii.com http://www.blissindustries.com http://www.manncorp.com/wave-solder/c250/ http://www.goepel.com http://www.blissindustries.com http://www.rpsautomation.com http://www.agilent.com http://www.manncorp.com http://www.circuitsassembly.com
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