Has Dual-Lane Processing Come of Age?

摘要

Producing more boards per hour within the same line footprint is the ambition of every high-volume electronics assembly company. The more high-yield boards that can be squeezed out of the SMT line, the more profitability can be squeezed out of the bottom line. This reality, of course, was the driver of dual-lane placement systems many years ago. Once an astute placement company developed the first gantry system - to move the placement heads and not the boards - dual-lane processing became a reality. With some slick engineering, the addition of a second conveyor and the ability to use a single work nest to effectively place components on two different products (or two different sides of one product), dual-lane placement was born and has continued to advance over the years.