Open Automation synchronizes all relevant parameters for material preparation and product changeovers in terms of equipment, people, material, and processes. From stencils and consumables to individual material supplies and complete changeover tables, everything is ready on time and optimizes for each setup.
The Factory Automation software module functions as the interface to higher-level systems such as MES and ERP while controlling all material flow processes automated via AIVs.

The openness and consistency in communication that is an essential part of Open Automation opens the door to entirely new applications. Laser marking in PCB preparation is just one example. With Open Automation, the PCBs can now be laser-marked in one central location for the entire factory. All required information gets transmitted via higher-level systems, and AIVs transport the marked boards to the respective lines.
The benefits: Cost and space savings, lines become shorter, and the solution can even be placed in an area away from the production lines.

No matter how advanced your automation may be, humans will always play a role. WORKS provides a revolutionary alternative to classic operator models with their rigid assignments of lines and operating staff.
WORKS is aware of all pending assists. The software automatically sends orders to the smart devices of those operators who have the necessary expertise. Teams are thus turned into smaller and much more efficient pools of smart operators.
The result: Significantly better capacity utilization and fewer line stops.

Since Open Automation accommodates automated board handling equipment, magazines can be loaded and transported via software-controlled AIVs. Higher-level systems transmit the digital product type IDs, settings get adjusted automatically, and all process-relevant data is passed from the machine to machine along the entire production line.
At the end of the line, the finished products are again loaded into magazines, automatically picked up by AIVs, and transported to their next destination.

With the DEK TQ, ASMPT offers the industry’s most powerful solder paste printer. Its smart features also make it the industry’s printer of choice for SMT line automation:

• Continuous operation of more than eight hours with no human assists
• Non-stop refilling or replacement of cleaning fluid and solder paste cartridges
• Automatic solder paste management
• Automatic job changeovers
• Automatic material and stencil changeovers via AIVs

The optional Process Expert inline expert system can handle the DEK TQs printing process control and optimization entirely on its own.

Process Lens is not only the industry’s fastest high-end SPI system, beating conventional systems by up to 70 percent. It is also a prime example of ASMPT modular, step-by-step approach to automation. In four phases, it becomes the world’s first self-learning expert SPI system called Process Expert:

• The system takes printing, placement and AOI data into account
• It learns from every single process
• Fully autonomous printing process control and optimization
• Software supported evaluation and optimization of stencil designs for “first time right” in the printing process.

With their broad performance spectrum and wide range of capabilities, high-end placement solutions like the ultra-flexible SIPLACE SX or the high-precision SIPLACE TX fit seamlessly into Open Automation, thanks to their horizontal and vertical communication with machines, people and software systems and the fully automated replacement of entire changeover tables with special AIVs in only a few seconds.
With the automatic clinching tool for the SIPLACE SX, the processing of THT components can be integrated into the line without the need to add expensive and otherwise unproductive machines.

• The basic Works provides the shop floor management foundation with order management, setup preparation, monitoring, remote control, and a whole lot more. Everything is connected and integrated
• Eight upgrade modules extend your process integration and optimization even further

The designers of the Open Automation concept even considered something as basic as getting rid of tape waste. ASMPT’s automated waste disposal system can be easily installed underneath the placement machines to collect tape waste in special containers which are automatically removed and replaced by AIVs.

Whether installed as a standalone system or as a central storage solution with multiple interlinked units, the new generation of the Material Tower is the ideal partner for automated and AIV-supported material flow processes:

• Movement of components to and from stock via AIVs with setup-optimized magazines holding up to 30 component reels
• Clustering of multiple units to form a self-contained system with internal material exchange via an integrated transport system
• Automatic distribution optimization of reels managed by smart algorithms