Agilent Technologies is in a demanding electronics manufacturing test market, and they promise to help their customers cut costs, build profits, compete to win. So when Agilent's engineering team began a re-design of their flagship automated optical inspection system for printed-circuit boards, their customers' demands were clear: higher performance, higher throughput, increased reliability and lower costs. Agilent's customers perform high precision surface mount PCB assembly, and look to Agilent for AOI (automated optical inspection) systems throughout their SMT lines.

Choosing SynqNet®
With the design goals set, Agilent chose the SynqNet® digital motion network architecture and an XMP-SynqNet solution from Danaher Motion. Agilent qualified several different servo drives and ultimately used CD SynqNet drives from Kollmorgen.

Key Application Features:

• XMP-SynqNet-PCI Solution
• MPI Code Integration - C/C++ portable libraries
• MPX ActiveX for engineering tests and prototypes
• Kollmorgen SynqNet CD Drives
  

Ideal for electronic assembly applications Kollmorgen PLATINUM® DDL Ironless Motors feature low bearing friction, high acceleration of lighter loads and constant velocity even at slow speeds. Additionally, Kollmorgen PLATINUM® DDL Ironcore Motors perform well at accelerating and moving high masses, maintaining stiffness during machining or process forces and replacing mechanical transmissions.

Kollmorgen F Series Frameless Direct Drive Rotary (DDR) motors utilize a proprietary neodymium-iron magnet rotor structure and skewed armature assembly to provide excellent levels of torque/volume. The windings are encapsulated with high temperature epoxy, which provides excellent thermal properties and mechanical protection. Their high magnetic pole count design produces exceptionally low cogging for smoother low speed operation in electronic assembly applications. To complete its motor systems package, Danaher Motion’s Pacific Scientific brand offers various stepper motors and control functionality ideal for the electronic assembly industry.

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Thomson Products
Danaher Motion designs and manufacturers a full line of off-the-shelf and custom engineered linear motion systems under the Thomson brand. With superior quality, value and customization capabilities, Danaher Motion’s Thomson products are built with the machinery builder in mind. Through its extensive product offering of tables, slides, actuators, linear guides, bearings, carriages, ballscrews and leadscrews, Thomson products are engineered to meet the requirements of the electronic assembly industry. Danaher Motion’s renowned Thomson T-Series profile rail system has gained wide acclaim in the electronic assembly industry by being the lowest weight to load carried product on the market today, allowing smaller drive systems and lower inertia transfer systems.

Dover Products
Through its Dover brand, Danaher Motion provides the engineering and manufacturing expertise to meet increasingly demanding application requirements. With the Dover Precision Linear Motor Stages, Danaher Motion offers a complete solution through a compact design and multi-axis capabilities. Leverage a world-wide team of control engineers and the expertise needed to custom-design a complete positioning system.