PCB Blog - What are common PCB splitters?

With the increasing demand from customers for products, PCB board splitters are becoming increasingly intelligent, efficient, and precise.

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Before the development of automatic PCB board splitters, they were all manually divided, with low efficiency and significant losses to the board. With the advancement of technology, the emergence of automatic PCB board splitters has led to the elimination of this manual board-splitting processing method.

With the increasing demand from customers for products, PCB board splitters are becoming increasingly intelligent, efficient, and precise. At present, the common PCB board splitters are mainly divided into: laser splitting machines, curve splitting machines, knife walking splitting machines, cutter splitting machines, stamping splitting machines, hand pushing splitting machines, and milling cutter splitting machines.

Laser splitting machine is an emerging technology. With the development of laser technology, the application of laser technology in the field of electronic manufacturing is increasing, and its application in PCB splitting is one of them., According to the needs, different lasers can be used. Currently, options include ultraviolet lasers, CO2 lasers, green light lasers, and picosecond lasers, with significant price differences. From a comprehensive cost-effectiveness perspective, the mainstream currently uses ultraviolet lasers and green light lasers.

The UV laser cutting machine has a lower thickness for PCB splitting, generally not exceeding 1mm. The green light mainly has high power and is used for laser splitting of PCBs above 1mm.

The biggest advantage of a laser splitting machine is cutting efficiency and cutting effect, with no carbonization or burrs on the cutting edges. And it has an adsorption function, which ensures no dust or smoke odor. The laser adopts a non-contact processing method, with minimal thermal impact and no damage to the substrate or active device substrate, without stress. Using CCD positioning and computer-controlled automatic cutting, it can also achieve automatic loading and unloading functions. Maximize the production efficiency of equipment and save labor costs. Of course, the drawbacks of laser-splitting machines are also very obvious and expensive.

The defect of PCB board splitters such as the curve splitting machine, knife splitting machine, cutter splitting machine, stamping splitting machine, manual pushing splitting machine, and milling cutter splitting machine, is that they all have contact processing methods, which can generate stress and damage the substrate. The edges of the cutting have rough edges and generate a large amount of dust, which is not conducive to sustainable and environmentally friendly development needs.

Splitter machines are widely used in the electronic product manufacturing industry. Due to the strong stress generated by traditional manual folding methods, which have a serious impact on product quality, manual folding has been replaced by machine splitting. PCB board splitters are divided into cutting, cutting, stamping, milling, and laser based on their different processing methods.

1. Blade splitting machine: The advantage is low cost, while the disadvantage is that it can only perform linear splitting. There are burrs and stresses.

2. Knife type splitting machine: Its advantages are pure pneumatic, compact (desktop type), high output, and can cut aluminum substrates of any width or thickness. However, its disadvantage is that it can only perform linear splitting. There are burrs and stresses.

3. Stamping type splitting machine: Its advantages are low initial investment cost and fast speed. The disadvantage is that it requires specialized plates and molds, resulting in high costs and stress in the later stage.

4. Milling cutter type plate splitting machine: The advantage is that it can divide plates of any shape, with low stress, and no burrs on the cutting edges. The disadvantage is that the initial cost is relatively high.

5. Laser splitting machine: The advantage is that it has the advantages of a milling cutter type splitting machine and can perform differential cutting on PCB boards without stress. The disadvantage is that the machine is expensive.

6. The main advantages of the splitter include improving production efficiency, improving product quality, reducing manufacturing costs, improving product accuracy, and enhancing safety. The automatic dividing machine equipment can achieve continuous production with a low failure rate, short production preparation time, and high production efficiency, replacing the previous manual labor, and greatly improving the actual production efficiency.

The Function of the PCB board Splitter

1. Improve production efficiency

The automatic dividing machine equipment can achieve continuous production with a low failure rate, short production preparation time, and high production efficiency. Replaced the previous manual labor, greatly improving the efficiency of production.

2. Improve product quality

The automation control system can enable the execution mechanism of the dividing machine to complete the operation according to the requirements of programming design, avoid the influence of subjective factors caused by human factors, ensure consistent product quality after the operation, and reduce the unqualified rate and loss of the product.

3. Reduce manufacturing costs

The pace of automated production with a splitting machine is very short, and the splitting speed is fast, which can greatly improve the efficiency of splitting. At the same time, the splitting machine can operate continuously, thus greatly reducing manufacturing costs under conditions of mass production.

4. Increase production flexibility

The mechanical automation production and processing system can quickly adjust production according to changes in production demand at any time, making line switching efficient and convenient.

5. Shorten the manufacturing cycle and reduce product quantity

Automation can shorten the manufacturing cycle of products, enable enterprises to achieve rapid delivery, improve their competitiveness in the market, and also reduce the number of raw materials and products, thereby reducing the cost of working capital.

6. Improve product accuracy

The automation equipment adopts various high-precision guidance, positioning, feeding, adjustment, detection, visual systems or components, which can ensure the high accuracy of product assembly and production.

7. Higher security

The automation equipment adopts an automatic loading and unloading mechanism, with line-types operation and vehicle circulation to improve production efficiency. At the same time, it also automatically prompts abnormal situations such as cutting, avoiding work-related injuries and misoperations from the source, and improving production efficiency efficiently and safely.

The PCB board splitter can quickly and economically segment various sizes of PCBs, with a wide range of adaptability; The segmentation process is smooth and effectively prevents the generation of internal stress; The length of the board can be controlled by the Control key.