Mass Production SMT Line!

You need a Siplace

Astounding!!😊I'm working as a SMT Operator for 5 years in Romania. 😊

What would be your expected profit margin in assembly? @tannerEwing

If anyone needs PCB assembly service, contact me.

Cool.

Too much paste.

I want to speak to this guy. Is it possible via LinkedIn?

Nice to see your passion, i worked on high production pick and place machines in the 90s, building LMB satellite boards for Amstrad on the up and coming sky bsb, brings back memories

I was a service engineer on the Accuflex, I still work with one now

So cool! Very thankful for the work you have put in to this machine! Its people like you that make the community and makerspace culture make progress! Keep it going Stephen!

Holy moly. I thought this was lost technology for the West. Glad to see it.

I was reminiscing thru the whole video 😊

Mega-feeder for LumenPnP next? 😆 Probably overkill, but a fun add-on project 😅

Awesome tour!

You're a great guy and I love your success. But off topic: why do US Americans need so many flags everywhere? On the streets, on the walls, everywhere. Do you ever trip and suddenly forget which country you are in, then in panic look around and are relieved... Still the US! PHEEWWW

That optical PCB checker at the end of the line could be a interesting open source hardware project. Just put a camera on the end of a 3d printer then use some sort of optical detection for board validation.

This is like Disneyland for nerds, they should sell tickets and offer guided tours to see this amazing production line. 😀

Love how the optical inspection machine runs Windows XP. Guess some things just never change

Chipquik rocks for small scale manufacturing, manual manufacturing, we got so much better results once we used that. I would be interested if there is anything better but probably each machine has a different optimal paste.

Sorry I missed you at MRRF! Maybe next year. Thanks for the instructional video!

Your friend must be rich to finance that operation! I can't even begin to imagine how much that all must cost.

I work on a E by siplace, 20000 components a day from 0201 to connectors. And we do prototyping 😄
A good beast

How do they even get this machinery in there? And it's all so job specific too, I wonder who manufactures these.

my jaw dropped at the chip sequencer, so cool!

Heck yeah! I'm sure these details seem obvious to people that use these every day but man do I love getting to hear real details about how these machines work in ways I didn't expect.

Hi! I was just spending my vacation in Italy, and I saw that mosaics were sold for a pretty high price. I thought you could easily make the same thing with some adjustments in your setup, it's just a matter of finding equal-sized little stones of different colours. If you had this as a side-project, it could raise an infinite amount of money.

I have an SMT line and once upon a time....that was the biggest challenge.

Right now, the hardest part is just finding parts.

Thanks for the video! Does anyone know if the machines and processes (and automation level) shown in the video are pretty much industry standard - also with most Chinese manufactures nowadays (like JLCPCB or PCBway)?

Nice but my conscience wouldn't allow me to support any business in Ohio.

The Taliban give women greater access to reproductive healthcare than does the state of Ohio.

See Chapter 4 of the Afghan Penal Code.

Reminds me of the Adafruit factory footage videos. Except I don't think they have those carts for offline feeder setup... Oh and they have a fancy selective solder machine instead of a wave solder machine.

this is one of the best videos you have done this year - so interesting and great narration and explanations - thank you so much!

The un-asked questions: How long, how much effort and cost $ to "set up" a job to run on this line? machines? How many dedicated, skilled people to do this? What minimum volume of PCBs is cost efficient?
Likely answers: Even with the advanced simultaneous programming, set up, & vision systems there will be over 40 individual "person hours" to get this going, ~ $1000 (not counting sourcing any parts). 6-12 trained, experienced people. Hundreds, depending on size and parts count. Maybe only 20-30 large PCBs with >500 parts or > 2000 Raspberry Pi Nanos.

Nice Facility! Thanks for the tour, video, and best wishes to all.

For those who want one of these: start with about $ 1,000,000 and see if you have any $ left.

That's my job

I love how passionate you are about the technology. The MG-1R is impressive but it's a 10-12 year old machine with pneumatic feeders and is a bit out of date to be referencing as state of the art (nothing to be ashamed of though). If you are ever in AZ get in touch and I'll get you into a few shops running current generation Yamaha (yes, the MG-1R is actually a Yamaha machine, sold in the Americas and Europe as Assembleon). I've been selling them for over 30 years.

lol "Mass production" with a couple of lines xD

This is so awesome man I've been following your series for about a year now. I got into fpv drones about 2 years ago and thought it was weird how everything in the fpv hobby is made in China? It got me interested in how hard something like setting up exactly what you did is. Big props man I wish I had a 10th of the knowledge you do but I'm just beginning my journey into PCB design so I probably won't need a pick n place for a long long time but when I do I know exactly where to find the perfect one. The thing I really loved about this series is how open with everything you are and I hope you keep on doing exactly what you've been doing, I'm enjoying the journey. Great inspiration 🤙🤟👌

As a SMT operator its quite funny to watch, because things that u seeing is so natural and obvious to me. I'm pretty sure that if u watched some of SMT assembly machines, your project would be much more simpler for u to build. Greetings from Poland

These chip sequencers sound very fascinating. How do I search for these? I found absolutely nothing on the web.

Всегда очень интересные видео!!! Продолжай снимать!!! Молодец!!!

That is some scale production. Love these contents

We now use selective wave soldering, where there is actually a moving head going with a tiny solder wave to the locations where the solder is needed. Has the advantage that you don't need all these expensive, board-specific masking trays designed and manufactured. It's not as fast and efficient when you run very large jobs of the same boards, but for a line where you run small batches and prototypes it's a pretty nice extension to have.

I think that I know what your next long term development project is going to be...

Why did he "nope" so hard on the Chipquick paste? :D Did you get a good other recommendation from him perhaps? ;)

Thanks Stephen! It was a blast showing you and your team around Tritium!

Did you notice how fast that up camera was taking the pictures? It didn't even stop the motion.

Dang, MRRF was not on my radar this year. I would have gone just to meet you guys. Neat to see these shops still cranking it out in the US.

Stephen. What about the cleaning? I am sure they deal with the pcb cleaning too. How do they do that?

Just imagine how many workshops might start with a lumen pnp and the nmove on to industrial sizes.. but I'd still keep the lumen around fro the prototypes.

Fantastic showcase. Love your videos.