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News Release from: Seica
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 23 April 2007
ATE advances aid production automation
At Nepcon in Birmingham Seica will showcase several new products within its Viva Integrated Platform that aim to meet the challenges of today's focus on automation.
In the world of electronics it is no longer possible to just have an innovative product The product must come at the right price and the right quality - which means that the manufacturing itself, and not just the product, needs to be innovative, to remain cost effective without compromising quality levels
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 31 Mar 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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At Nepcon in Birmingham, together with UK partner Testworks, Seica, Italy's leading electronics test solutions OEM, will showcase several new products within its Viva Integrated Platform that aim to meet the challenges of today's focus on automation.
These include the Strategy.sl, a fully automated in-circuit/functional bed of nails tester, the Pilot VIP system, Seica's full-performance automated flying probe tester for loaded boards and the Firefly, a laser selective soldering system.
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Seica, Italy's electronics test OEM, has added several new products within its new Viva integrated platform.
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A new integrated test platform from Seica includes cutting-edge technology to implement the multiple test strategies needed to address the challenges of electronic testing.
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Seica's products meet the GEM (Generic Model for Communication and Control of Manufacturing Equipment) Standard.
In addition, the mechanical interface on these products also adheres to the SMEMA (Surface Mount Equipment Manufacturer's Association) Standard.
The latest addition to Seica's growing portfolio, the Firefly concentrates all the power and control of laser technology into the automated selective soldering process.
Based on Seica's VIP architecture, Firefly simplifies the generation, verification and operation of any soldering program, while its flexibility and performance can be further optimised through additional software tools.
Not least, thermal control, so essential to the soldering process, is guaranteed by an integrated temperature control system that provides continuous feedback during the soldering process and displays thermal profiles clearly in real time.
Equipped with a SMEMA board conveyor system, Firefly can also be integrated easily into any production line.
Seica's Pilot Flying Probe system integrates a complete set of test tools and techniques that enable it to perform the entire range of in-circuit, functional tests and even boundary scan of any type of electronic board without having to build a test fixtures or mechanical adapters.
The air bearing technology used in the Pilot allows the four mobile probes to "fly" on cushions of air over granite guides, practically eliminating friction between the moving mechanical parts.
The CCD camera is used to do optical inspection for testing component presence/absence and orientation.
The Pilot software creates a "virtual" bed of nail during test program generation, making it easy to transfer some test program to other systems in the S40 Series and its open modular architecture allows the direct connection of the system to a bed of nails fixture.
The Strategy VL is another test solution that will be showcased in the Seica booth.
The Strategy line of test systems is suitable for all types of in-circuit and functional test applications, as they are configurable with the internal and external resources that best fit the customer needs.
The open hardware and software architecture allows easy integration of external instruments (such as scopes, spectrum analysers, waveform generators).
In this case, the system has been configured to perform the functional test of automotive products and modules, with the capability of executing low value analogue measurements, power analogue, low frequency and high frequency digital measurements, using the standard system resources as well as some new Seica hardware modules (programmable loads, matrix, power loads) which have been designed to address the specific functional test requirements of all of the various automotive products installed inside a car.
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