Setup Center  - Save time and reduce errors

SMT Setup preparation process is an integrated part of SMT production. It can be done on offline station using carts or directly on SMT line before production process. According to our survey, the process is carried out disorderly mannered by paperwork without monitoring and documentation. This process (that is incomplete process) causes failures in SMT production, on post SMT production (such as ATE) and at customer site. Additionally, replacement of feeder/component is done without control.

Setup Center provides a simple and easy to use solution for a structured Setup preparation process and feeder/component replacement process. The system works fully with the barcode reader as part of the orderly work. Customers using Setup Center report that Setup preparation and feeder/component replacement errors are reduced drastically or even eliminated completely. In addition, they report that Setup preparation time is reduced from hours to less than 30 minutes, depending on PCB complexity. The quantity of FAI cycles is drastically reduced as a result of using the tool, resulting in substantial savings in materials.

Possible Extension: Traceability

Today, every medical, military, aviation, etc. product requires full serial number traceability. Setup Center includes extension, called Traceability, which allows collecting and crossing serial numbers on Setup preparation process, feeder/component replacement process and SMT production process (using fixed barcode reader of each PCB/Panel). The extension allows to cut these data and to know, for example, where and when serial number of component was in use (assemblies, PCB/Panel serial numbers, dates etc.) and so on. Our customers report that this extension is very critical on recall/RMA process and it saves a lot of time on detecting a right population of PCBs/Panels to be checked and fixed.

Newsletter prepared by Alexei Shkolnik part of the team here in Proventus Technologies