Re-born CEM achieves instant success with assembléon

Citation

(2005), "Re-born CEM achieves instant success with assembléon", Soldering & Surface Mount Technology, Vol. 17 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/ssmt.2005.21917aab.008

Re-born CEM achieves instant success with assembléon

Re-born CEM achieves instant success with assembléon

Keywords: Electronics industry, Manufacturing

Canadian contract electronics manufacturer MARA Technologies has made such an impact on its specialist market in complex PCBs that it installed its second Assembléon SMT production line just 2 months after the first.

Production started in February 2004 with a high-mix/medium-volume SMT line including an Assembléon Topaz XiII multifunctional placer and Emerald XiII fine-pitch placer with Tray Sequencer. Immediate intense interest from customers prompted MARA to install a second line in April. The new line includes Assembleons new A-series placement platform.

MARA has installed an AX-5 chip/IC placer from the A-series range, which has been designed to provide a platform on which any application will run, at any volume, on the same, small footprint.

By June, MARA employed over 30 people and had grown to a mid-size assembly house. MARA offers a full BGA service with a high-voltage X-ray machine, and a rework station for fine-pitch and BGA components which is almost fully automated. To help achieve zero-defect process capability, the company has acquired a fully automatic optical inspection system.

MARA is currently mostly engaged in consigned contract work, but is looking also to expand its complete turnkey service. The purchasing department is being enhanced to accommodate this aspect of electronics manufacturing services.

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