Software included for free with new chip placement platform
26 July 2006Manufacturing / Production Technology, Hardware & Services
Universal Instruments has announced it is to include NPI software installed and activated free of charge with all future orders for its Genesis high-speed chip placement platforms.
This will allow customers to achieve faster and more efficient new product introductions. NPI software is said to be easy to use and delivers productivity benefits, especially in high-mix and specialist manufacturing environments.
The NPI package has already delivered considerable savings in time and expense for major electronic assemblers worldwide. According to Universal's director of the Genesis Platform, Scott Gerhart, "Universal's NPI software allows our customers to substantially reduce assembly set-up time of any given product and the bottom line results are quite significant. And while the reduction in set-up time definitely translates to dollars saved, two equally profound benefits of this software are the improvements in quality and the reduction of scrap. NPI software allows for the first board of a production run to be produced nearly 100% defect-free. These savings allow users to deliver faster turnaround and a highly cost-competitive service to customers."
Further features of the NPI utility include post-placement inspection assistance to facilitate fine-tuning and troubleshooting. In a high product mix environment, NPI's ability to rapidly verify feeder and fiducial settings can deliver valuable savings, maintains the company. It says that by supporting pre-placement inspection NPI will help to drive up productivity and utilisation, and reduce operator training. It also verifies that all parts are placed, and are correctly located and oriented after the board has been built.
The NPI software complements the features native to Universal's UPS+ machine operating software, which provides over 1200 industry standard shape codes and JEDEC tray definitions and flexible component definition capabilities. Further features of UPS+ supporting the NPI software include intuitive CAD import, image capture tools for realtime debug analysis, and powerful querying capabilities allowing multiple parameter changes against multiple component definitions.
The NPI utility is also compatible with the Universal AdVantis chip placement platform, and delivers similar savings of time and resources, says Universal Instruments.
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