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Adam Electronics Tightens Quality Assurance with 3D AOI
By Aleksander Czabanski, President and CEO, Adam Electronics
range of services from development benches to automotive assembly lines. Located in Madison Heights, Michigan,
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Adam Electronics designs and manufactures PCB assemblies, wire harnesses, custom box builds, and offers engineering services. Its 10,000 ft2 production facility offers
quick-turn and low-volume manufacturing as well as scaled production volumes. Since 1984, the company has made it its mission to add value to its customers’ organizations, while contributing to their success.
Growing Need for Inspection Adam Electronics manages customers’
solutions from start to finish. This includes coordinating fabrication of mechanical com- ponents and software development, provid- ing all electrical design and assembly of end product, and performing electrical design, embedded software development and me- chanical engineering. While the company’s roots are in box
build, it has expanded its range of services to cover other solutions, including PCB assem- bly. The company assembles PCBs with a mix of technologies such as through-hole (THT) and surface mount (SMT) devices and
rom its beginning as a box build spe- cialist for the automotive industry, Adam Electronics has expanded its
places all package types, including ball grid arrays (BGAs). As a low- to mid-volume and high-mix PCB assembler, the company can work with FR4, metal core and rigid flex sub- strates, and its primary products include ECU, LED lighting and instrumentation.
Inspection has become an important
part of the company’s PCB assembly service. To provide greater value to customers, Adam Electronics partnered with PARMI, a leading developer and supplier of inline 3D inspec- tion machines for SMT manufacturing. Adam Electronics purchased PARMI’s Xceed 3D automated optical inspection (AOI) system to automate and improve its inspec- tion process. Before purchasing the AOI sys- tem, Adam Electronics’ method of inspection was to use a team member to inspect each board manually. However, with Xceed, the company has
been able to move the person to another sta- tion, speeding up the process. This has re- sulted in significant improvements to the in- spection process. “Since Adam is a low-vol- ume/high-mix contract manufacturer, we see different defects on a daily basis,” says Da- vian Larente, COO, Adam Electronics. “Through use of the PARMI AOI, we can trace build errors back to the origin, enabling us to fix the cause and improve our builds.” He adds that changeover speed is impor-
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tant to keep production running for low-vol- ume, high-mix manufacturing. “The PARMI system has proven to be an easy system to program. We build programs to inspect even the lowest volume boards including, a three-
PARMI Xceed 3D AOI system.
MODEL 802 TABLE TOP HOT/COLD TEST HANDLER
• Optional-55°C to +155°C minimum working range.
• Handles all device types, 1.6mm x 1.6mm –60mm x 60mm.
• Near zero changeover kits. • Base price starts at under $31,500.
www.exatron.com 1-800-EXA-TRON 1-408-629-7600
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