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Google Translate - Speed (SOUND) -techzexpress-
ThailandExpress
Surprised toofgifs hasn’t stolen this one yet
Schnauz
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evildadunit
pfft, gimme a pair of tweezers and a wirewrap board
anosebyanyothername
ahh yes the KenShiro star seven.
wadatahmydamie
I worked for a company that made these. I used to use scraps to build little circuit board dioramas
Oneblueeyerighthandguy
I used to do DIY modular synthesizer kits and this hurts me a little. That’s the fun part!
4vie
..... OK, no wonder electronics are so expensives....
coughingintensifies
That machine needs to chill out. I get it, it’s angry, we’re all angry, but this is not the way.
jinbee
Rotate video -90° for a more realistic angle. The boards sit flat in these machines. Source: we just bought one.
songbringer
The company that I work for still uses two radial machines to build through hole circuit boards. They are the worst.
eastend666
Totally amazing.
Neurisko
Took me a minute to figure out, that is a very small circuit board.
HenryLongfellowIII
Rather large. About 6" x 2-3" (150mm x 50-75mm) for each board, but there are 4 of them in the panels they are stuffing, so roughly 12" x 4-6" for the panel. It looks like some kind of power supply.
thricebakedxyz
I thought that 'stuffing' was the term for this process, thanks.
HenryLongfellowIII
It's an odd machine. Usually the head has to move to pick from reels of each part, in this case they have the parts already sequenced on that belt carrier. Never seen anything like that. The surface mount parts are already soldered in place.
MrAndyPuppy
Imagine this thing getting a single component out of sync. Lol
Luffian
There will usually be some sort of optical scan of incoming components to ensure a) it's the expected part and b) the orientation before the parts get placed. These can be anywhere for basic size/shape checks to super sophisticated, micron level inspections depending on the requirements.
MrAndyPuppy
Sure, I was assuming the same. But one day my luggage almost went to Germany because the tagging machine at Newark airport got out of whack by one. Always did wonder whether the person before me got their luggage or the person before them. I've been coding long enough to know there's always an edge case somewhere. And it'll usually be hilarious or catastrophic. Or both.
Luffian
The main difference is that when one of these messes up the company loses money but when the airline messes up YOU lose money. Problems can crop up for sure (worked on similar machines as a tech, I've seen it all) but these things tend to have dozens of checks they run per cycle which will all hard stop the machine if anything is out of control. Unless some asshole went through and pencil-whipped cals or limit tables, of course.
peterbozeman
Is it soldering that fast, too?
Or, are these some type of "click-in" components?
APM418
This type of board manufacturing is typically done with "wave soldering"; the board is passed over a pool of molten liquid solder in a wave that adheres to the exposed copper pads and the radial leads of the throughhole components but not to the solder mask.
SaturnineCult
Seems like all those are through-hole components. Surface mount ones are already there from a different machine.
DiracsDelta
It’s just inserting thru-hole components into place on the board. Soldering comes later
kahlas
No this is a through mount, opposite of surface mount, placement machine. The next step for the boards is a wave solder machine to solder the connections. Here's what a wave solder machine looks like and how it operates. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWH58QrprVc&ab_channel=AgrowtekInc.
amp99
Some production lines use boards with solder paste pre-applied (either by a machine before the pick and place one we can see here or at the same station). The surface mount components are held on by the paste temporarily before the soldering step is done. This video has a demonstration of a machine which can do both: https://youtu.be/-7H1YE4NspY
amp99
This is also quite a cool video: https://youtu.be/TI22gYN_jhc You can see the operator going through a few steps in the process to get the machines ready.
kahlas
There are two methods of assembling PCBs. You described the surface surface mount method. The naming scheme is because surface mount components mount to the surface of the PCB while through hole mounted components have a pigtail go through a hole in the PCB. What's shown in this video is the through hole method and the next step is a wave solder machine like my video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWH58QrprVc&ab_channel=AgrowtekInc.
criggie
Our pick-and-place machines at work use a series of cartridges holding spools of the same part on a tape. This one seems to have all the different parts needed in sequence.
Alurkerforcedtologin
The camera is rotated. Those components are just standing up on the board with their leads in the holes but nothing holding them in but gravity. It will go through a wave solder machine shortly.
ExOneOneSeven
Rotated
IrvingSchwinglepuck
This is a radial machine that will bend and clip the leads on the underside of the PCB preventing the components from falling out. The next step is an assembly line for through hole components that can not be serviced through automation, to be placed by hand . The final step will be the wave soldering machine.
MrSnuffleupagus172
What the machine underneath doing? Seems to move around when each component is placed.
IrvingSchwinglepuck
Cut and bend leads.
AnIPAisMyFavorite
What types of components can't this machine place? I assume larger bits?
IrvingSchwinglepuck
A radial insertion machine can insert any wire leaded component (theoretically). in all cases the wire leads must be pre-configured to the dimensions the of the holes. In this case there seems to be be capacitors and LED that have wire leads pointing straight down from the component....
IrvingSchwinglepuck
Other variations of insertion machines are used for components that require the leads to be bent (prepped) prior to the insertion, such as resistors, diodes and transistors.