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Applications or trends of robots and printed circuit boards

Applications or trends of robots and printed circuit boards: PCB industry is a technology-intensive industry, but it is still a labor-intensive industry.

Many automated equipment require manual operations and pipeline operations.

A medium-sized PCB company employs thousands of employees, including industrial transfer and modernization, the implementation of the new Labor Contract Law, the increase in the cost of living in the city due to economic structural changes, and geographical difficulties and mobility.

In the 1980s and 1990s, printed circuit manufacturers faced increasing challenges of labor shortages and rising labor costs, as well as their impact on production plans, product quality, and cost-effectiveness.

At the same time, as the performance of robots improves and prices fall, changing the traditional production mode "automation equipment + operation" to "automation equipment + manual operation" will become the trend of industrial processing and development.

1. Application of six-axis multi-joint robot in the injection detection program of interest The traditional AIA scanner is based on manual investment, turnover and closure. One person is in charge of two machines, performing repetitive and monotonous actions every day.

In addition, the newly-manufactured printed circuit boards will produce an attractive smell, which can cause damage to the human body.

The infrared light scanned by AIO is also an invisible killer.

We used a six-axis multi-axis robot to replace the workers responsible for arranging, replacing and closing the two AOI cards.

Each group has more than 700 printed circuits, and the total efficiency can reach 1 minute per minute (OIO analysis time).

If the upper and lower power lines related to the reader can still be connected to the fixed line converter with the AGV, the upper and lower processes can be fully automated.

2. SCARA robot used in the printed circuit board coil inspection program At present, there are limited testing equipment for multi-layer coil short circuit on the market.

Most of the test equipment is a large-aperture circuit board based on manual operation, which is hand-made on the test equipment, and then used for testing.

Printed circuit boards with small apertures require manual equipment (probes) to inspect each coil.

We can use SCARA robots to load, unload and position the test equipment so that all the coils can pass through the large opening card at the same time.

For small aperture cards, we use SCARA equipment to fix the probe on the execution side through visual positioning, and use the probe to detect each coil.

Our equipment also effectively prevents manual operation because of the coil.

Leak detection occurs when the aperture is small or multiple. Compared with manual operation, it can greatly improve the detection efficiency and avoid the quality problems caused by the detected detection.

3. Robot Delta used in the process of packaging finished products on small circuit boards. The existing FPC platform is collected by hand and placed in one of the suction trays.

Because the FPC is very gentle and inefficient, the Delta800 system plus a vision system can extract qualified personnel and place them in the suction tray if needed.

The effect of the "Manual" is no less than the provisions of the "Manual".

Its speed can reach 60 pieces per minute, which can completely replace sorting and manual loading and unloading equipment.

The benefits of industrial robots replacing labor in the printed circuit industry

Like the automotive industry and other manufacturing industries, industrial robots in the printed circuit industry bring many benefits to companies, rather than manual operations.

1. Reduce employment, speed up work and improve work efficiency. The robot can achieve a high-speed turning function, which may be much higher than the speed of manual operation, which greatly improves work efficiency and reduces labor and management costs.

2. Improve business accuracy and product quality. Robots can use programming and vision systems to achieve precise positioning and accuracy, thereby effectively improving product quality. 3. Eliminate potential threats to workers' health and safety in the work environment, and save investment in environmental safety.

4. Reduce the efficiency, quality and accident rate of repetitive and complicated processes that affect the status of workers.

5. Optimize work flow and reduce working space.

6. Effectively reduce material consumption.

7. It can run continuously for 24 hours and run in a dark environment.

8. It can make the manufacturing process flexible. In the future, more and more small batch orders will be used in the PCB industry. The use of industrial robots can greatly improve the flexibility of production and can quickly deliver purchase orders.

9. Promote brand image and reputation. Through the application of industrial robots, the automation level of printed circuit manufacturers has been improved, thereby promoting improvements in product quality, production efficiency, cost control and response capabilities, and at the same time improving the overall competitiveness of manufacturers.

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2. Prospects for the application of industrial robots in the PCB industry

At present, industrial robots in the printed circuit industry have only begun to be used, and many problems remain to be solved.

In the PCB industry, many work lines are non-standard products. In the process of using robots, they are limited by the existing working space and the capabilities of the original equipment.

In view of the influence of various printed circuit materials, we should also consider the use of various sensors to improve the intelligence of the robot.

At the same time, we should consider forming a worker group that can use and maintain the robot as a manufacturer.

In the future, the use of industrial robots in the printed circuit industry will indicate the following trends:

1. Single-station station or single-line application for multi-threaded applications. It is difficult for existing printing companies to fully introduce robots to realize automatic production, and they must invest a lot of money in processing.

However, they can gradually convert qualified single sites and unique routes into one stage, and then gradually expand the scope of application after obtaining obvious results.

2. Use simple robots in the process of applying AGV and other smart devices.

Most of the transfer between equipment between existing production lines is a manual operation, which can be distributed and executed by using a combination of robots and AGVs to achieve orderly material transfer.

3. The existing PCB factories are mainly local applications. The new factory will be planned throughout the plan and will be directly incorporated into the application of robots and AGVs.

4. The Internet combination of industrial robots and objects will make the manufacturing process smarter and more flexible. Finally, it can be predicted that industrial robots will be widely used in the printed circuit industry in the future.