Fed up with the high costs of wave solder defects? The ones that persist or surprise you despite repeated temperature measurements, chemistry changes and wave machine upgrades? Companies just like yours have turned to a higher impact, more meaningful approach that directly measures the most critical event in wave soldering? How your boards travel through your solder wave.
The WAVE SOLDER OPTIMIZER is the only device which accurately and comprehensively measures all aspects of your wave solder process in a single run: Board-wave interaction, temperatures and fluxer performance. Because of its unique and powerful capabilities, the OPTIMIZER is the most widely used, battle-tested, cost-cutting, wave solder process tool in the world.
"Working with the Optimizer made us re-think many of our previous notions on how we should wave solder. We shouldn't blame the board design as often as we have in the past and we now understand that we can't rely on a thermal profiler to control our wave solder process. The Optimizer's LCD display makes it easy for us to respond immediately to the data it provides."
TRW Automotive Electronics
The OPTIMIZER runs through your wave machine just like your boards, enabling you to do the following:
1.) Quickly identify the exact optimal parameters for any PCB assembly,
2.) Easily maintain world-class repeatability,
3.) Perform informed, on-the-spot adjustments to your wave machine settings.
Thousands of OPTIMIZER users have been producing better PCBs and increasing throughput at much lower cost!
Widespread Use with Proven Results
Engineers who are still using conventional wave solder control methods have no accurate way of gauging or controlling their most important parameters. One example of a precise, daily measurement that is vital to good wave solder results is board-to-wave parallelism.
A major study found that that 76% of 384 PCBA facilities who used the OPTIMIZER for the first time did not have their boards properly aligned to ensure parallelism with their solder wave - a condition that leads to skipping, bridging, insufficient solder fill and other defects.
The good news is that 92% were able to quickly make adjustments that achieved parallelism. Most importantly, 84% of these plants reported significant quality improvements right away!
Consider this success story: A facility in Michigan plant uses their OPTIMIZERS with our easy procedures to establish and verify parallelism daily. On the very first wave machine, boards requiring rework dropped from 13% to 4%, improving first pass throughput from 87% to 96%.
Monthly cost savings are $62,500.00 per wave machine due to increased throughput alone. Return on investment per OPTIMIZER was less than four days. The daily parallelism procedures have been implemented on the plant's twelve wave machines. You do the math. |
Added: Wed May 28, 2008 6:24 am GMT 