PCBA Tech - China will become a global manufacturing center for SMT

The global electronics manufacturing industry is entering a period of intensive innovation and rapid development of emerging companies. As the basic engineering and core composition of electronic components, SMT technology (surface mount technology) and electronic information technology are maintaining a synchronized development trend, and are in the electronic information industry. The role played by the media is becoming more and more prominent, and its status is becoming more and more important. The shrinking of the volume of electronic products has forced the quality of the products to be continuously improved. In order to better capture the international leading SMT manufacturing technology and fully display the domestic SMT industry manufacturing level, from August 30 to September 1, the 22nd South China International Electronics Manufacturing Equipment and Microelectronics Industry Exhibition (NEPCON South China 2016) will officially kick off at the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center. NEPCON exhibition has been associated with SMT surface mount technology for nearly 30 years, and the SMT area of each NEPCON exhibition will become an important network support and technical support.

SMT technology (surface mount technology) and electronic information technology have maintained a trend of simultaneous development, and their role in the electronic information industry is becoming more and more prominent and their status is becoming more and more important. Faced with the rapid development of the SMT processing industry, its market demand will rise sharply. The existing domestic component output, both in variety and output, is far from being able to meet market demand. Forecasts by foreign institutions indicate that China’s semiconductor market demand will rise from 13 billion US dollars in 2001 to 34 billion US dollars in 2005. Market demand will promote the process of industrialization of components in our country.

As one of the SMT (Surface Mount System) placement machines, the LED placement machine is an SMT placement equipment specially designed for the LED industry to achieve mass LED circuit board assembly, including display screens., Soft and hard light bars, light strips, etc., a device that accurately places surface mount components on PCB pads by moving the placement head. It is used to achieve high-speed and high-precision placement of components and is the most critical and complex equipment in the entire SMT production. With the development of LED technology, the traditional SMT placement machine can no longer meet the production needs of the LED industry, and the LED placement machine came into being at this time.

China has become the country with the largest number of placement machines in the world

Although my country's SMT started relatively late, it has only been 20 years from the early 1980s to the present, but while introducing, digesting and absorbing advanced foreign technologies, we have gone through theoretical exploration, the initial stage of batch testing, and entered deep research and mass production. A new stage of production and application.

After more than 20 years of development, my country’s annual demand for placement machines has increased at a rate of 15-20%. From the perspective of the number of placement machines, China has become the country with the largest number of placement machines in the world, and it is also the world The largest and most important placement machine market. According to estimates, in the field of LED special placement machines, the market capacity in 2014 will be more than 1,000 units. In 2016, the domestic demand for placement machines increased by about 3,000, of which the demand for LED placement machines was about 1,300. In addition, taking into account the significant growth of the LED lamps and LED display market, the market capacity of the LED dedicated patch market will reach 319 million yuan in 2017, and the compound growth rate of the LED dedicated placement machine market will be close to 30% in the next three years.

It can be seen that the Chinese era of SMT is coming, China is becoming the global manufacturing center of SMT, and my country’s LED placement machines are expected to develop rapidly. During this period, we have opportunities but also face more challenges. .

my country's professional LED placement machine equipment manufacturers are rising

The placement machine is the most critical equipment for the SMT production line with the highest technical and stability requirements. For more than 10 years, Chinese companies are still in the exploration stage and prototype trial production stage, and have not launched mature products that have passed the pilot test. Almost 100% of them rely on imports (except for small LED placement machines). Therefore, it can be said that in the past ten years In China, the SMT market of Connaught University is almost occupied by foreign products. Under such a situation, the market is eager to see the appearance of cheap and good-quality domestic mounters.