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News Release from: Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering | Subject: ProAlign 5000
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 08 March 2002
Component assembly workstation for opto
devices
EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering has launched a semiautomated assembly workstation for array-type devices.
EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering has launched a new semiautomated assembly workstation for array-type devices The ProAlign 5000 component assembly workstation is designed to lower the cost of manufacturing complex photonics components by increasing yield, product quality and throughput
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 17 Sep 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The ProAlign 5000 handles a broad range of applications including one-sided, two-sided and right-angled planar lightwave circuits (PLCs); optical switches; pitch convertors; transceivers; echelle gratings and arrayed waveguide gratings (AWGs); and devices with 90-degree as well as angled faces.
Developed in conjunction with leading photonics component manufacturers, the component assembly workstation offers numerous industry firsts.
The ProAlign 5000 system is the first workstation designed with cost-of-ownership criteria in mind; the first to include automated first-light detection (patent pending); and the first to incorporate a single six-axis NanoRobot unit moving the device to be assembled.
Together, these unique features increase production yield for photonics component manufacturers and, as a result, lower costs.
Other important features of the new ProAlign 5000 workstation include machine vision using motorised optics for rapid coarse alignment with minimal user intervention; rock-solid stability for superior alignment and bonding; and force sensors for absolute determination of part separation ensuring repeatable process control.
All aspects of the ProAlign 5000 workstation were developed with the goal of increasing product quality and yield for component manufacturers, thereby increasing throughput.
"EXFO is the only company with the broad-ranging expertise, including nanoalignment, automation, testing and bonding, needed to translate customer requirements into solutions", said David Farrell, President of Burleigh Instruments, a wholly owned subsidiary of EXFO.
"Our new ProAlign 5000 component assembly workstation redefines what an assembly workstation should be for the global telecommunications industry.
It provides photonics component manufacturers with the most advanced solution on the market today".
(This was Electronicstalk's Top Story on 7 March 2002).
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