Today I received a nice message from a customer who purchased a VP-2800HP-CL64-4R machine a year ago!

Hi Michael,

After one year of the daily usage we can say, that we are happy with your machine. It work really well for all our manufacturing.

Thank you for the good machine!

Alexey Vladimirov                         

This is not common, but it is gratifying that our hard work is being recognized.
I appreciate all feedback and suggestions for improvement.
We have learned a lot over the past 10 years and have also made many improvements.
Thank you for your input.

Our V2 software has been maintained and provided with free updates for many years now. In light of the current market situation, we have decided to offer future updates for a fee.

• An update to V3 will cost all customers who purchased their machine before 2025 a one-time fee of $450 and $280 per year thereafter.
• If maintenance is interrupted, the $450 update fee will be charged again.The rights of use for the purchased license will remain valid in any case.

We have invested six months of work and testing in the development of the new V3 software!

The following new features are included:

• Full control over the Z-axis position—we now place parts in 3D.
• Offsets of the placement position can now be managed.
• Mixed operation of dispenser and component placement is now freely programmable.
• New dispenser modes added to improve paste and glue placement.
• Each placement position can now be corrected with a fiducial mark, which is saved in the project.
• The placement status of the components is saved with project file so that the remaining components can be assembled at any time.
• Automatic nozzle center calibration to improve the pickup of very small components.
• Automatic calibration and calculation of a wide range of machine parameters.
• A new Feeder tab that visualizes the positions of the feeders on the machine and provides access to all feeder functions and dialogs. 

• The conveyor control is now saved together with the project.

• The entire UI has been restructured and provided with a complete German translation.

• New manuals have been created and summarized in parts of the application.
• All vision functions updated to receive better precision.
• MARK correction improved it detects now circles if enabled.
• MARK correction precision improved.
• Direct place part function from SMT dialog.
• Sorting order of feeder list can be customized.

The yellow fields are releated to dispensing points

3D placement of stacked parts in mixed dispenser operation placing glue points first before parts placed.

SMT related parameters in blue and local mark point parameters marked in green.

We have added two new machine options to our range.
The Pecker can be equipped with a 3-zone conveyor and is then called PECKER-CV.
The design is similar to the VP-2800HP-CL64-RCV.

The entry-level LYNX machine has two HD bottom cameras and a USB Mark camera and is available as LYNX -HD.

All new machines are delivered with our V3 software, which includes a 12-month update service.

We have found 2 nice and smart developers to write an OpenPNP compatible firmware for our V3 controller. This makes our most modern entry-level machine compatible with open source PC software.
If everything goes well, we will have a working system by the end of the year.

Thanks to Sören and Markus.

https://www.smallsmt.biz/panda-design-contest/

Our new pick and place machine for the entry into SMD placement is called PANDA. This machine V2 is based on a standard XY system and is offered in 2 versions.
In the Basic version, an external Windows PC is required for control, which is connected to it via Ethernet and USB.
The PANDA PRO has cover, Z axis sensor and optional embedded industrial PC.
Both machines have  0.01mm X/Y resolution.

All feeders are created from durable aluminium rather than printed plastic. We have built in push feeders on 3 sides with 43x8mm, 19x 12mm, 9x 16mm and 2x24mm lines. Any tray can be mounted in the work area and depending on the PCB size, other software defined feeders can also be set up.

3 cameras with 640x480mm resolution are installed.
The bottom cameras have different optics that can align components up to 30x30mm.

PCB size 300x300mm possible and if JEDEC Tray installed 300x170mm left.

And now the best news the prizes!
The PANDA BASIC variant will start at 3799usd

the PANDA PRO will cost 4399usd.

This version has optional embedded industrial I5 PC including windows 10 pro license.

Only external Monitor and air compressor needed to operate machine.

You can add to your network for file transfer and updates.

We added some new information pages under menupoint Services in english.

Wir haben einige neue Informationsseiten unter Menupunkt Services_de in deutscher Sprache hinzugefügt

Our placement machine Pecker shows the placement of 0201 LED. For this the new electronic feeder option is used and the components were aligned in fly by mode.

The video shows both results for the precise Full Alignment mode and the One Shot Fly By mode.

New functions and bug fixes you find complete description in our software BLOG.

Don't forget to backup your SMT folder before applying update!

Here you can see our new Pecker pick and place machine in production

New functions and bug fixes you find complete description in our software BLOG.

Don't forget to backup your SMT folder before applying update!

SMALLSMT-Pecker 4 head HS  Pick and place machine

SMALLSMT-RAPTOR 8 head HS inline Pick and place machine

We have now added the Z-axis sensor to all 4 head machines. This is used to adjust the pick up height on the feeders. It simplifies this calibration enormously. 

All models received some upgrades and finally we decided to build inline pick and place machines.
The first model is the VP-2800HP-CL64-4RCV which has built in 3 zone conveyor and SMEMA interface on both sides.
https://www.smallsmt.biz/vp2800hp-cl64-4rcv/

And finally we got our new 8 head machine RAPTOR up and running well.
I will post some informations in the next days.

We are still searching for a nice name the working title is RAPTOR it is placing 7200cp/h under vision alignment!

It has 3 Zone Conveyor System, 19 slot Nozzle Changer, SMEMA interfaces, embedded industrial PC and Air Supply!

New functions and bug fixes you find complete description in our software BLOG.

Don't forget to backup your SMT folder before applying update!

April 13 - 15, 2021

International exhibition of electronic components, modules and systems

https://www.eventseye.com/fairs/f-expoelectronica-835-1.html

Download your evaluation copy now and ask for test license!

Download your evaluation copy now and ask for test license!