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News Release from: DEK
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 27 April 2006
DEK leads world in SMT screen printers
Frost and Sullivan's recent analysis of the world SMT screen printers markets selected DEK International as the recipient of its award for market leadership.
Frost and Sullivan's recent analysis of the world SMT screen printers markets selected DEK International (DEK) as the recipient of its award for market leadership in this market for maintaining its technology leadership position consistently over the years and for the company's continuing efforts to enhance customer service Each year Frost and Sullivan presents this award to a company that has exhibited market share leadership by continuously driving innovation and capitalising on opportunities
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The recipient has displayed excellence in all areas of business processes, including the identification of market challenges, and deploying suitable strategies to overcome them.
"DEK's diverse product portfolio has helped the company penetrate all segments of the market successfully and cater to customers around the world", says Frost and Sullivan Research Analyst Lavanya Ram Mohan.
"Customers, in turn, have accepted the flexibility inherent in the company's product line as an effective solution to meet the ever-growing requirements of speed and accuracy".
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Enclosed-head screen printing was introduced to the electronics assembly industry in 1997, and aimed to reduce materials wastage, minimise operator intervention and tighten process control.
In 2005, DEK introduced a new platform to address the next-generation process requirements for speed and accuracy.
This next-generation platform addresses cost of ownership issues through high throughput and repeatability, one-generation-ahead process capability, and outstanding reliability.
Another unique technology innovation is the control architecture, Intelligent Scaleable Area Network (ISCAN).
This is an implementation of controller area network technology.
The unique proposition of this technology is the ability to perform remote diagnostics.
The advantage of such a technology is best felt in predictive maintenance.
This reduces the meantime between any failure and ensuing repair.
This architecture allows the machine construction with as much as 40% less wiring than any other machine in a similar class.
In addition to these features, DEK has worked with human factors research specialists to develop Instinctiv, the industry's first truly intuitive user interface, to greatly streamline operation and optimise screen printing equipment and complex, modern processes.
Instinctiv dramatically reduces setup time, and includes onboard help as well as graphical, easy-to-read machine status information in real time.
DEK's innovative approach to helping customers maximise productivity is further demonstrated by the company's Hawkeye high-speed print verification system.
Hawkeye challenges convention by introducing the concept of verification - a straightforward good/bad analysis of each deposit with no quantitative inspection data - to allow 100% of printed boards to undergo a visual check after printing.
This can be achieved without slowing the line beat rate, thereby driving up productivity.
"The other aspect that sets DEK apart is the company's customer service strategies", notes Mohan.
"DEK has transformed itself from a hardware provider to a process enabler and it has a large number of process application engineers located throughout their global base to support this".
DEK has implemented numerous customer service enabler tools, the majority of which are based on their Internet applications.
DEK Interactiv is one such tool.
It is a suite of web support tools that provides remote diagnosis, predictive maintenance, machine warranty, machine service, online upgrading, and many more services.
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