Fully automated dispense robot improves the manual process

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(2001), "Fully automated dispense robot improves the manual process", Soldering & Surface Mount Technology, Vol. 13 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/ssmt.2001.21913cad.013

Fully automated dispense robot improves the manual process

Fully automated dispense robot improves the manual processKeywords: Robots, Automation

The TS3030 production robotic dispense platform is a totally flexible and cost-effective dispenser that is particularly suited to automating high performance manual dispense applications that use challenging smaller componentry and devices (see Plate 9).

The extremely versatile TS3030 can apply a huge range of fluid materials in any desired way, including fully contoured beads and high precision dots. In addition, when combined with any of Techcon's industry leading family of precision dispense valves and accessories, the TS3030 can be easily customised to meet the exact needs of almost any application including automotive, medical, and electronics.

Plate 9 Techcon Systems TS3030 - an extremely cost-effective and flexible entry-level dispensing robot

The TS3030 unit itself features a 300mm x 300mm work area that comprises a sturdy X-Y table and overhead Z-axis gantry arrangement to ensure maximum accuracy and repeatability. It also has a highly compact footprint that allows it to be easily integrated into any workstation or semi-automated production line.

In construction, the TS3030 exploits build components of the highest quality. Each of its three (X,Y,Z) axes, for example, is driven by a closed-loop, five-phase DC servo stepper motor that is capable of producing a resolution accuracy to ± 75 (or ± 3mil) and a repeatability of just ± 25 (± 1mil).

In electronics production, for example, this includes being able to dispense exact, perfectly shaped 250 (10mil) dots of adhesive or solder paste at very high speeds of five or more dots per second, without loss of accuracy or consistency (application example used Techcon's industry leading TS5000 rotary microvalve fitted to the TS3030).

The TS3030 also offers all the features of a large conventional X-Y dispensing machine, while its flexible, modular design allows users to add only the features they need, as and when required, without having to pay for those they do not. Feature options include vision alignment, automatic height sensing and rotary valve controllers.

The PC-controlled TS3030 is also easy to use and program thanks to Techcon's extremely powerful specialist dispense software, Techionsoft.

For further information please contact: Gareth Davies, Techcon Systems, Eagle Close, Chandlers Ford, Hampshire SO53 3NF, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 2380 489074; Fax: +44 (0) 2380 489099; E-mail: gdavies@metcal.com

For further information visit: www.techconsystems.com