Pick and place machine is the main device in a PCB assembly line with the ability to place components automatically on a PCB board fast and precisely.

We also can call it a pick and place system, pick and place robot, or placement machine, which is the critical element to achieve the success of surface mount technology.

1. What Is A Pick And Place Machine

1.1 The basic definition:

Generally speaking, the pick and place machine is absolutely a complicated machine for mounting components. As its name implies, which picks components from feeders or trays then places them on the PCB board.

The operator can load chips on this machine. For some devices, they have feeder stations at both the front and rear sides. Via reels, tubes, stick feeders, we can load components onto the machine from these various feeder forms.

• What is its basic configuration?

Simply, there is a mounting head on the X-axis of the pick and place machine, which is able to pick up components from reels, tubes of stick feeders then place them onto the board eventually.

PCB assembly process

Its principle is the vacuum, which means when picking the components the head uses a certain vacuum, then releases the vacuum to put the components on PCB board.

• How the machine control its movement?

Generally, there is specialized software, which guides the head regarding to the PCB board position and mount the components on the required locations with the exact accuracy.

Therefore, we can understand that the operator should make a program by using the installed software of the pick and place machine with the required information of the components and PCBs,

Whereupon, the machine knows where to place the components on the PCB board. Usually, the mounting file is directly related to the PCB design information.

• The complexity and the role of the machine

As we all know, pick and place machine is the most complex in an SMT production line, so it takes up the major cost in the SMT equipment investment. Besides, the pick and place machine also plays a vital role in SMT production performance.

The production quantity is increasing, as well as the size of components is decreasing and the printed circuit boards is getting more and more complicated, which urges electronic manufacturers to adopt the full-automatic SMT production line.

• The main types

According to the mounting types, the SMT production line has two types roughly: simultaneous and sequential pick and place machine.

The simultaneous pick and place machine can pick up and mount all components at the same time, which usually requires to know the locations of all the components before placing them onto the PCB.

On the contrary, a sequential pick and place machine picks up only one component each time and then places the component onto the printed circuit board one by one.

The sequential chip mounter can place various types of components with high flexibility and accuracy, but its mounting speed is not as fast as the simultaneous machine.

Hence, we can classify the pick and place machines according to their different configurations and functions

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