KNOW HOW: Building the workingtable for VP-2500D


I am Michael from SMALLSMT.

I like to show you the work of the past 3 days of installation and mounting my workingtable for the new VP-2500D.

The machine need to assemble our complete PCB product range soon.

My old SMT50 Assembly machine is replaced now by an improved VP-2500D.
This machine has improved accuray and is twice fast for normal assemble and need only 25% of time for vision alignment computing time!

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VP-2500D working area

The VP-2500D is a workspace and feeder giant.

My desktop machine provide 27 west side and 21 north side feeder. In my configuration I use 4x 16mm and 4x 12mm feeder lines and all other are 8mm.

 

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VP-2500D dual head

Our dual head design allows to use different sized nozzles at one time or the same to improve speed. The strategy allows single head use, automatic double head with same nozzles and finally double head with different nozzle optimization.

 

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VP-2500D front view

Such a big machine need a stable table construction.

I used a 40mm square aluminium profile based construction and a 20mm table plate. This construction allows easily to add new functions like a reel cart for the feeder.

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SMALLSMT reel cart

I build a assembly using laser cut acrylic plates and aluminium pipes for the reel cart. The bigger reels need another solution seen on bottom right.

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VP-2500D north feeder view

Here you can see the result.

My north feeder cart for big and small reels.

 

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VP-2500D side view

And the west feeder populated with reels.

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VP-2500D with equipped reels

Finally the workspace looks full need to add the last reels.

The machine can handle now 99% of the parts I need for my PCB assembly. We do small production runs up to 500 boards a day.



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