Kodiak Adds a Fuji XPF to Its SMT Line
The placement machine added capacity and capability to Kodiak’s surface mount line in Austin by January 2018.
Kodiak’s Fuji XPF, from Fuji America, is the XPF-W model, a pick-and-place machine that places a broad range of electronic components on the surface mount line at high speed and with high precision.
The Fuji XPF
The XPF is both a high-speed chip shooter and a multipurpose mounter, and it can also be used as a dispensing machine, according to Fuji America.
Fuji America describes the XPF’s dynamic head exchange as the world’s first automatic head exchange system that works while the machine is running. Because the machine changes its own heads, a line can be set up with one type of machine instead of several different machines, each equipped for a different function.
The XPF-W switches from a high-speed chip shooter to a flexible placement machine in 0.3 to 0.8 seconds, I-Connect007 reported.
For Kodiak, that means added capacity and more efficient production. The usual method placed parts with two separate machines set up in a line; the XPF does that work on one. Its revolver auto-tool and single nozzle let one machine do both jobs.
The XPF-W also handles printed circuit boards up to 20 x 27 in without increasing line length, according to Fuji America.
The Rest of the Floor
The XPF joins the rest of Kodiak’s production equipment as of January 2018: three SMT lines, AOI, X-ray inspection, flying probe testing, solder machines for assembly, and other test and measurement equipment.
That equipment covers surface mount technology, printed circuit board assembly, electrical verification and testing, and system integration, from NPI to production.