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News Release from: ECD Europe | Subject: SuperMOLE Gold
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 19 April 2004
Profiler gets to grips with reflow
The SuperMOLE Gold can be used to optimise process parameters, reduce rework and scrap, lower setup times, compare temperature profiles and maintain processes in control by using SPC software.
By equipping its applications engineers with ECD's SuperMOLE Gold temperature profiling tool, Henkel Technologies has established a standard platform from which it can now provide its Multicore customers throughout Europe with improved levels of support when setting up soldering processes and troubleshooting soldering-related problems Henkel Technologies has selected ECD's SuperMOLE Gold system in order to help raise the level of technical support it can provide to customers for its Multicore solder products throughout Europe and to establish a standard platform
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 26 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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After a rigorous test and evaluation procedure, involving five competing products, Henkel Technologies decided that ECD's market leading temperature-profiling tool offered the best combination of features, software, simplicity of use and technical support.
Henkel Technologies wanted a profiling tool that its engineers could use to help set up new soldering processes and troubleshoot any soldering-related problems at the sites of its Multicore customers.
The SuperMOLE Gold meets this need as it can be used to optimise process parameters, reduce rework and scrap, lower setup times, compare temperature profiles and maintain processes in control by using SPC software.
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"There were two main factors in our decision", says Richard Boyle, European Multicore Technical Services Manager for Henkel Technologies.
"The SuperMOLE Gold is very simple to use and it has user-friendly software, which together help the unit provide excellent results".
ECD's SuperMOLE Gold is a six-channel thermal profiler and is delivered along with all the necessary equipment to enable the user to quickly start the profiling operation.
A thermal barrier, capable of protecting the unit in even the harshest lead-free environment, software, manuals and a selection of colour-coded thermocouples are included in the kit.
Specially developed SuperMOLE for Windows software takes the time and temperature information from the MOLE and displays it on the computer screen, allowing all, or some, of the thermocouple data to be viewed simultaneously.
The software can show temperatures at any point in the soldering process, as well as the change in degrees per second, how long the object has spent above specific temperatures, average temperatures, standard deviations and more.
Additional online support is available via ECD's website, which includes software downloads, upgrades and free licensing for customers.
The software downloads include paste specifications for Multicore and other manufacturers products and a comprehensive oven library.
For example, the ProfilePlanner tool matches ovens to pastes and generates the most robust profile for the selection.
The tool is continually updated and covers over 300 pastes, with specifications for the ramp, soak and spike values, as well as the time above liquidous.
"Our engineers are able to go online and choose the correct profile, oven and paste data from the ECD website", adds Boyle.
"This provides them with all of the information they need to use as presets in a given process".
The SuperMOLE Gold offers six-channel measurement over a temperature range from -129 to +1300C, to an accuracy within 1C and a resolution of 0.5C.
The sampling interval can be set from 0.2s up to 24h, and up to 5460 samples can be recorded with six channels active.
The compact unit measures 89 x 152.4 x 9.41mm and it is supplied with a rechargeable Ni-MH power pack.
"Overall the SuperMOLE Gold provides us with the best quality unit", summarises Boyle.
"It is a very professional package, easy to put together and tremendously robust in its heavy duty box.
It is also very well supported by ECD".
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