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Reputable Placement Equipment Captures Market Share
May 31, 2005 |Estimated reading time: Less than a minute
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — Universal Instruments has achieved four consecutive quarters of market-share gain in the combined chip-placement sector, according to proprietary figures recently released by an industry market-monitoring organization. Universal's secured market share is due to their high-speed chip placement platform products, having doubled since mid-2004.
Driving Universal's progressing success is their Lightning rotary placement head, which combines the modularity and scalability of flexible-fine-pitch, gantry-based equipment with a chipshooter's raw speed and throughput for parts from 0201 to 20 mm² with no appreciable performance derate.
"Lightning's proven ability to place the broadest range of components makes all-platform lines even more compelling, a fact that is contributing to the success we are achieving in all market sectors with this philosophy," says Karen Moore-Watts, Universal's global director of marketing. "But more significantly, we are consistently seizing an expanding share of the chip placement segment with our Genesis and AdVantis platforms configured with Lightning heads. The versatility of these systems is unmatched; users no longer need to choose between flexibility and fast changeover associated with gantry machines or the speed of a rotary head. With our platform products, they can have both, and evidently, that's starting to show."