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| Film Adhesive Assembly is a fast changing world. Stay up to date with this new, quarterly newsletter; learn about new application studies, new materials and interesting developments. |
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Market Outlook
by Jamie Schlinkmann
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Innotunity or Opporvation?
Regardless of your industry or position in the supply chain, innovation breeds opportunity, which breeds more innovation. It is exactly at this intersection that real value is created. I'll give you an example: the recent beginning of innovative and thin mobile phone designs has spawned a series |
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Using Flex Circuits? What You Should Know
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Lean and Clean: When Your Production Requires Cleanroom |
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| of new models, driving sales to record levels. The phones from just a year or so ago seem like cars from the 80's: outdated and unwanted. Replacement sales have soared past new subscriber sales, further validating the strength of the industry.
What has this done to the supply chain? First of all, it has challenged it to meet the requirements these new designs are demanding, causing innovation at nearly all levels. Secondly, those at the leading edge of innovation are faced with enormous opportunities as key suppliers of technology into what is right now unthrottled demand. Once again adhesives and their applications (in this case in the mobile phone industry), combined with our innovative and experienced process engineering capabilities, have afforded AccuPlace the desirable position of having a key technology used in the creation of a hot commodity: AccuPlace is the leading source for equipment to assemble Anti-Splinter Films ASF™ onto glass lenses. So I ask all you OEMs and suppliers out there to keep innovating; we and others like us are ready to turn your challenges into opportunities for all who have their eyes on the proverbial ball. |
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Size Does Matter: Placing Larger Components With Precision |
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Need a Quick Changeover with No Tooling? Check This Out |
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Print and Apply: All You Need is Ævo |
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What's New at AccuPlace |
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Win a Polo Shirt |
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Using Flex Circuits? What You Should Know
By Rich Orstad
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Flex Circuits provide various advantages for electronic product manufacturers because of the performance, space, weight, and flexibility
characteristics they offer. Once a flexible circuit is designed and manufactured for a specific application, the ability to assemble or attach this circuit to the desired component in a cost efficient manner is critical. Assembling them into the electronic product causes some challenges to the manufacturers. To benefit completely from the advantages flex circuits offer, assembly has to be done not only accurately and fast, but often also in a three dimensional shape. Assembly time, circuit or component scrap factors, and production throughput are the primary issues affecting the best solution for assembly. The combination of utilizing a Die Cut Pressure Sensitive Adhesive (PSA) with Precision Placement Technology to assemble flexible circuits creates tremendous benefits in manufacturing costs, quality, and throughput. To read the entire White Paper, please click here
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| Lean and Clean: When Your Production Requires Clean Room |
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Whether you manufacture electronics, semiconductors, or life science products, contamination of your product during manufacturing is a concern. Placing film adhesives - in the form of labels, filters, vents, or other types of pressure sensitive adhesives – can be critical as both machine movement and adhesive can cause contamination. Most of the common peel & place technologies are not suitable for any clean room environments. AccuPlace has standardized solutions with clean room options that reduce the chances of contaminating the target part with particulates. This clean room configuration provides air valve exhaust ports that are connected together for porting to an outside vacuum system. The pneumatic cylinders have vacuum collars around the shafts and the bearings are constructed from stainless steel. The following models are available as clean room versions: |
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1515, RM1515 |
1515, RM1515 |
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RM2065 |
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| For Component Size up to 3.0” x 6.5” |
3065, RM3065 |
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4065 |
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| To learn more about clean room capability of our machines, click here or contact sales@accuplace.com |
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Size does matter. So does accuracy. AccuPlace introduces its new model 4090, an adhesive component placement system for components up to 4.0”(Width) x 9.0”(Length) / 101.6 mm x 228.6 mm. The new model 4090 incorporates our unique patented peeling technology ensuring high placement accuracy and repeatability, even with components that are difficult to peel. To learn more about it, click here: www.accuplace.com/products |
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If you have high product variety with small production lots, you know about the challenge of changing your manufacturing line from one product to another. Materials have to be changed, project specific tooling has to be mounted, and adjustments need to be made. Such changeovers can easily eat up to 60 minutes or more, depending on the complexity of the machine. For frequent changeovers in assembling pressure sensitive adhesives, AccuPlace now offers an additional feature that makes your product changeover easy: the Quick Disconnect Tool for fast and easy chuck changes. Simply disconnect the vacuum, push the chuck up against the actuator, slide it out – and slide the new Quick Disconnect Tool in. The Quick Disconnect Tool does not require any tooling, and allows you to change the chuck in less than a minute. This is a precious timesaving device for your manufacturing process without sacrificing quality. Contact sales@accuplace.com for more information.
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| Print and Apply: All You Need is Ævo |
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A new generation of standardized placement technology is on its way.
Years of experience and thousands of applications placing complex die cut adhesive components have driven AccuPlace to develop a new standard in placement technology. Features include:
- Web based (TCP/IP) machine interface for highly advanced and intuitive machine parameter setup
- Rollerless drive technology for higher accuracy, lower maintenance, and longer life
- No tooling required for routine maintenance
- Zero-Queue Print & Apply Capability
With an optional 300 dpi or 600 dpi thermal transfer print head and a placement repeatability of 0.05mm [0.002”], this machine redefines state-of-the-art pressure sensitive adhesive placement and brings this standard of excellence to the print & apply market. Be part of the Ævolution, click here: Ævo
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New Website Helps Engineers Find Solutions |
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| Our updated website enables Engineers, Manufacturing and Operations Managers to learn about problem analysis and its solution without facing them firsthand. Sorted by market segments or by automation grades, the new website provides more than 50 case studies on the assembly of adhesive backed components.
"Application studies give insight into how AccuPlace applies standardized technology to assemble film adhesive,” says Global Sales Manager of AccuPlace, Mike Terry. “From the simple to the complex these application studies communicate the value of flexible standardized solutions to the manufacturing community.” Each study contains the task, particular challenges, the solution and the customer’s benefits. The growing library covers Mobile Communications, Automotive, Computer & Peripherals, Life Sciences & Industrial markets as well as various grades of automation and integration into production lines. Let our experience be your guide, click on the market segment you are interested in to learn more.
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| Bigger Building, Better Service
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| In 2005, AccuPlace purchased the building it is in. This allows us an expansion from the existing 30,000 sq.ft. to eventually 70,000 sq.ft. Customers will profit from AccuPlace’s latest investment: New features such as a clean room for final assembly and small customer production runs, and a dedicated customer training facility will be built in several phases which will help us to serve you even better. Stay tuned to AccuPlace Insight to learn more. |
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| Singapore is Ready to Go Steady |
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| The AccuPlace Singapore Tech Center is ready to support your business in Asia. As component assembly grows in this region, so do we. With our recent hires for Singapore - Regional Sales Manager for Mobile Communications, Operations Manager and a new Field Applications Engineer – we support manufacturing in Asia at the cutting edge, starting from Engineering and Project Management, over Tooling Design and Manufacture, to Field Support. |
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How many inputs and outputs does a 4065 have?
Write your answer to: newsletter@accuplace.com The winner will be drawn on April 20, 2006 and published in the next newsletter.
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AccuPlace
1800 NW 69th Avenue, Plantation, FL 33313
Phone +1 954 791 1500
Fax +1 954 791 1501
AccuPlace Pte Ltd.
10, Ang Mo Kio St.65, #06-10A, Techpoint,
Singapore 569059,
Phone +65 6483 4353
Fax +65 6483 3156
www.accuplace.com
We welcome your comments:
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