Dear Tom,

I know of a company in the UK called Vision Engineering who specialise in
desktop semi-automatic inspection equipment. Aside from a patented viewing
technique that avoids eye-strain, it allows quite sophisticated inspection
of assemblies, enabling operators to monitor, measure and record a variety
of parameters, such as distances, thicknesses, etc. Significantly, they
enable you to view in 3-D to check for solder paste/pad integrity
during/after assembly. 

You can probably get hold of them at:

Vision Engineering
Send Rd
Send, Woking
Surrey
GU23 7ER
UK

and feel free to mention my name.

Hope this helps.

Gordon Wong






At 11:39 AM 31-10-96 -0500, you wrote:
>We are a small electronics company that design and assemble our own boards
>for our display systems. We do small runs (typically 20 boards or less). Our
>Engineering group is now designing more and more surface mount packages into
>our PC assemblies including fine pitch ICs (19-16 mil). We visual inspect
>soldering prior to test and assembly. Can any of you Technetters recommend a
>low cost system for visual inspection of small run fine pitch SMT
>assemblies? Anyone have experience with Conceptronics equipment? Thanks for
>the advice.
>Tom Moore
>Electro Plasma
>419-255-5197
>
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