| Hitachi Announces Sigma F8 Chip Mounter |
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Sigma F8 component mounter has a Quatro (Four-Head Structure) direct drive head. Places passive components as small as 0402s at a placement accuracy of 3 Sigma ± 36 microns. Closed-loop rotary inspection and on-the-fly component recognition. Self-loading feeder. On- and offline programming. Footprint of 1,280 × 2,240 × 1,450 mm. Stores all process and component placement data for PCB and component traceability.
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Columns
| Semblant Warms to New Fluoroolymer Conformal Coating |
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Months after hinting at a new conformal coating during a paper session at SMTA International, Semblant has officially launched PlasmaShield. CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY editor in chief Mike Buetow spoke with vice president of worldwide sales and marketing Steve McClure last week. |
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| ECTC in Las Vegas |
What happens in Las Vegas at ECTC, doesn’t stay in Las Vegas, it is shared here. This year’s ECTC, or electronics components technology conference, was held in Las Vegas’ Cosmopolitan, May 28-31. |
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Features
| The Impact of Reel Splicing Kits on Setup and Changeover |
Traditional feeder setup using tape-and-reel can drain time. There’s a quick and better way. |
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| Standard Solar Cells vs. Next-Gen Cells: Which is Winning? |
Overcapacity is stalling the rate of improvement, but only for so long. |
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Products
TOM system (Teachable Optical Measurement) inline AOI has been enhanced for inspection of conformal coating Maximum PCB size 460 x 400mm. Can be adjusted to specific test requirements. Range of...


