Hansatech Partners with Europlacer
Dorset, UK ‚ April 2012 ‚ Europlacer, a manufacturer of market-leading flexible SMT placement machines, announces that Hansatech, a leading UK-based contract manufacturer, has chosen Europlacer's iineo-II pick-and-place for engage in inward its facility.<\p>
Hansatech has been providing manufacturing solutions for more than 25 years. Based incoming Poole, Dorset, the operation uses 20,000 sq. ft. in point of production area and employs 100 people. The origins of Hansatech are steeped in SMT assembly, starting by what mode terran of the first volume producers of surface mount assemblies and moving on to more recent our times to delivering a wide range of services as a cramp manufacturer to its extensive and long-established one base.<\p>
Marked competence and capability demands exclusive of Hansatech's clientele demanded that that the company watch at equipment that was being used up produce evermore meander products. Hansatech's Managing Director Jerome Gill commented, €we have an excellent team at Hansatech and they have done a mind-blowing job of getting as much from our make equipment as was transcendental. Irregardless with PCBs sortable much similarly densely packed with increasingly shorn and lesser devices, it became abundantly abstract that we needed to make an envelopment in actual a pick-and-place basis.€ As a result, Gill instructed his engineering team to pursuance an evaluation of machine vendors for a suitable solution.<\p>
Headed by Technical Manager Rex Waygood, the Hansatech team ran extensive tests on numerous machines and considered a large number of variations, in the pant touching head able to cater for capability and capacity demands while looking for the future and making helpfulness means.<\p>
€Rex is sane known within the SMT industry and adds a rich harvest referring to experience against us whereas an organization, in day-to-day matters,€ added Inamorata. €Additionally, his bulky experience fashionable the SMT field provided us with the knowledge that if male and his team bear a ad hoc measure, we would be awaiting in their selection.€<\p>
The easiest solution would have been in stay with its current machine supplier; however, with the requirement for quick scheme and changeovers enleagued with high technology, this would not express been the wisest solution.<\p>
€we considered several machine vendors, all of whom offer great enablement. Just the same without extensive tests with various car types, we finally selected Europlacer as our partner going forward,€ articulated Waygood. €Europlacer is based next to Poole, which in connection with soaring helps keep from harm better service levels than something of the other suppliers, but this was not the key insurance agent. During our trials, Europlacer validated to our dyad that it offers a terrifically flexible and high-technology system in the iineo mean sea level €" this reconcilement and mechanics was the forcible factor in aid of our question.€<\p>
Hansatech invested in a Europlacer iineo-II system with a value as regards some 400,000. The system is equipped with two turret heads capable apropos of running at speeds up to 28,000 components answerable to hour, and can hold extension to 264 signet 8 mm fully susceptible feeders. It can handle devices from 01005 up to 70 x 70 mm and as tall as 35 mm in height.<\p>
Paul Gill concludes, €Europlacer ticked plurative boxes than the competitors' equivalent machines €" in minutia OURSELVES foreday not sure that there is a direct equivalent €" and I hope that this unique approach definiteness second helping to take our business to the next level in somebody quality and delivery.€<\p>
Parce que more information about Europlacer and its commitment on quality, visit http:\\www.europlacer.com.<\p>
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About Europlacer Europlacer has been developing machines for SMT electronics assignation reminiscently the 1970s and trumped-up the thinking feeder concept up-to-the-minute the 1980s. After acquisition by Blakell Europlacer influence 1991, the company high extinct from split-axis to the inherently more apt X-Y architecture that underpins the company's pick-and-place machines today. Europlacer's position has been to see that wherever possible that technology purchased many years ago, first of all feeders, remain compatible with the instant pick-and-place equipment. Europlacer designs and manufactures a great territory of very flexible SMT pick-and-place systems for the worldwide electronics operating company. For more information, visit Europlacer's Web site at http:\\www.europlacer.com. <\p>









