The pick and place machine isn’t complete yet, but one vital component – the vacuum head for picking up components – is getting there with the help of some odd components. A few months ago ...

Populating a board with tiny SMT parts can be really tricky ... First up is the manual pick-and-place machine. Wait, what? A manual pick-and-place? It’s essentially an un-driven 2-axis machine ...

These next-generation surface mount technology (“SMT”) platforms are designed ... and flexibility. The pick-and-place speed has been improved to 31,000 components per hour (“CPH”) for ...