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YXLON Receives SMT China Vision Award for Cheetah EVO Range
April 30, 2019 | YXLON InternationalEstimated reading time: 2 minutes

YXLON International has received an SMT China Vision Excellence Award for its X-ray system Cheetah EVO. The festive award ceremony took place during the NEPCON China 2019 show at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center.
"The Cheetah EVO family is Yxlon's answer to the specific inspection needs of our customers in the SMT, semiconductor and laboratory applications worlds," says Barbara Nichtern, Yxlon Vice President Global Sales & Marketing. "Equipped with the ProLoop solution, the systems support modern smart factories and Industry 4.0. Beyond the detection of flaws, Cheetah EVO systems are the perfect tool for the improvement of production processes."
ProLoop is the intelligent manufacturing solution providing complete production information in real-time thus enabling the producers to improve both the quality of their products and their production processes for increased productivity. All data reports are stored and can easily be traced back, even remotely. Combined with traditional AOI and AXI inspection systems, ProLoop reduces industrial manufacturing costs, and increases efficiency and yield.
Founded in 2007, the SMT Vision award is the only acknowledging international prize-giving in the Chinese electronics manufacturing market which once a year honors outstanding innovations and inventions which enable China's electronics-assembly industry to build better, more reliable products.
About YXLON
YXLON International, a company of the Swiss Comet Group, designs and produces radioscopic and CT inspection systems for the widest variety of applications and fields. Whether situated in the aviation & aerospace, automotive or electronics industry, our customers are among the largest producers, major enterprises that place their confidence in our quality worldwide.
The name YXLON stands for assurance and quality for all types of cast parts, tires, electronic components, turbine blades, welded joints and a lot more. Our product portfolio includes X-ray systems for installation in radiological inspection envelopes, universal X-ray inspection systems on the basis of fully shielded devices, as well as solutions specific to a customer. Whether in manual, semi or fully automated operation, our inspection systems are ideal for deployment in research & development and can be integrated into any production process.
With our FeinFocus product line we offer microfocus systems for detailed insights into even finer structures. If semiconductor packaging, BGA soldering joints on printed circuit boards, sensors or relays – with 2D or 3D inspection missing or damaged bonding wires, flawed soldering joints or splices as well as other manufacturing defects can be detected and their position and size defined according to requirements.
With our headquarters in Hamburg, sales and service locations in Yokohama, Hudson (Ohio), San Jose (California), Beijing, Shanghai, Hattingen and Heilbronn, as well as a network of representatives in over 50 countries, as YXLON we’re local for our customers all over the world.
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