Charlie,
        Give me a call, we've just finishing up a 60 day evaluation of a
new system from IRSI, and are just getting ready to uncrate a MVP system
for our next on-site evaluation. Once we get it up and running, you can
stop over for a lookie-see and get some feedback from our IRSI
experience. We may also be looking at Omron's system if they can give us
a machine in-house for 30 days or so. I've got to agree with a lot of
what Phil Z is saying, AOI systems do some good things, but they still
leave a lot to be desired. Particularly in the area of joint inspection,
they still can't hold a candle to an HP 5DX X-Ray (all I want for
Christmas is....). We are primarily looking for a system that can
provide:

- Component absence/presence
- Component polarity
- Component alignment
- Component value recognition

This will allow us to inspect for components that we can't check in ICT
due to access/node issues and speed up our job setup/first article
process. Everybody promises the moon, that's why we are only considering
vendors that will drop iron on our floor. It's too easy to put on a good
'dog and pony' when they have a chance to work on the product at their
place before you get to see it.

Mike McMonagle
PCA Process Engineering Supervisor
K*Tec Electronics
1111 Gillingham Lane
Sugar Land, TX  77478
(281) 243-5639 Phone
(281) 243-5539 Fax
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Barker [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, December 11, 1998 4:25 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      [TN] Inspection/scanning machines
>
> We are investigating the purchase of an automated inspection system.
> The system must be able to do 3D solder pste deposition inspection,
> component post and pre-reflow inspection, as well as solder joint
> post-reflow and post-wave inspection.
>
> We are presently looking at systems from MVP, Omron and General
> Scanning.
> The first two are leading the pack.
>
> Does anyone have experience with any of these? Please send me your
> evaluations.
> Any other candidates to investigate?
>
> To avoid airing any disparaging remarks to the whole world, please
> respond
> directly to me at:
> [log in to unmask]
> 281-552-3328
>
> TIA,
> Charlie B.
>
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