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WHITE PAPER
Limited transparency regarding the condition of placement nozzles is one of the most underestimated causes of quality deviations and rising production costs in SMT manufacturing. Usage-related changes often remain undetected for too long and directly affect the placement process.
This White Paper by Eric Kirschner shows how Closed-Loop Nozzle Management, based on unique identification and continuous condition tracking, enables end-to-end transparency across the entire life cycle of each nozzle and establishes the foundation for high process stability.
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In SMT manufacturing, placement nozzles have a direct impact on process stability and assembly quality. The smallest deviations or contaminations can lead to faulty placements, scrap, and rising production costs.
Even in small factories, thousands of nozzles place millions of components each day, and their cleanliness and integrity determine the quality of each placement step.
Conventional maintenance and cleaning strategies quickly reach their limits in this environment. Interval-based maintenance and sampling don’t provide a reliable overview of nozzle health, and data from machines as well as from cleaning and maintenance operations is often collected in isolated silos.
As a result, damaged or contaminated nozzles can easily re-enter the process – either on the same or another machine or even on other lines.
Closed-loop nozzle management provides a solution because nozzles are clearly identified, monitored and checked in a data-driven manner throughout their entire life cycle. Processes become more transparent, process quality improves, fault rates decline, and unscheduled downtimes are minimized. Maintenance is carried out as needed, based on actual usage and recorded parameters.
Read more in the White Paper on Closed-Loop Nozzle Management.
Author: Eric Kirschner, Senior Product Manager Placement Solutions, ASMPT SMT Solutions
As the industry’s technology leader, ASMPT offers a broad portfolio of best-in-class products. Our solutions stand out with their perfect interaction of hardware, software and service components – powerful, smart, and ready to raise your production to a new level.