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February 1, 2017 | ACE Production Technologies, Inc.Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
ACE Production Technologies Inc. has announced that APC has invested in a KISS-102 selective soldering system, which has been installed at APC's facility in Rosario, Cavite, Philippines. This is the first selective soldering machine that APC has ordered from ACE Production Technologies.
"The KISS-102 is a fully-configured selective soldering platform equipped with 'Super Quick' processing speeds, heated nitrogen inerting system and automated wave height detection system," said Kevin Valentine, Sales and Service Manager-Americas, of ACE Production Technologies. "The KISS-102 comes standard with the ACE automated fiducial location and correction system providing single click fiducial teach capability, seamless fiducial recognition and true automated alignment and skew correction of the printed circuit board. In addition, the KISS-102 can be equipped with a dual solder nozzle pump assembly that allows two different sized solder nozzles to operate independently for greater flexibility and processing efficiency."
Valentine added, "Other innovative features include the new SWAK-OS machine operating software which is a revolutionary graphics-based programming and editing machine control system that features fast program loading and program recall with minimal operator intervention. A major benefit of the SWAK-OS is the integrated board scanning function that automatically captures and saves an image of a printed circuit board to the selective soldering program."
APC (formerly known as American Power Conversion Corporation) is a subsidiary of Schneider Electric, and is a global manufacturer of uninterruptible power supplies, electrical peripherals, data center servers and products, data storage and software services. Schneider Electric is the parent company of Square D, Summit Energy, APC and numerous other subsidiary companies with over 114,000 employees and operations in 102 countries worldwide.
About ACE
ACE Production Technologies, Inc. designs and manufactures selective soldering systems suitable for lead-free and tin-lead electronics assembly applications. ACE’s complete line of durable and reliable selective soldering systems all feature lead-free compatible solder pots and are ideal for low, medium or high volume production. ACE also provides solderability testing, selective soldering workshops and process development services. For more information, click here, call 509-924-4898 or email sales@ace-protech.com.
ACE Production Technologies has been acquired by Nordson Corporation (NASDAQ: NDSN) and will operate as part of Nordson’s Advanced Technology Systems segment. Nordson Corp. engineers, manufactures and markets differentiated products and systems used for the precision dispensing and processing of adhesives, coatings, polymers and plastics, sealants, biomaterials, and other materials for fluid management, test and inspection, UV curing and plasma surface treatment, all supported by application expertise and direct global sales and service. Nordson serves a wide variety of consumer, non-durable, durable and technology end markets including packaging, nonwovens, electronics, medical, appliances, energy, transportation, construction, and general product assembly and finishing. Founded in 1954 and headquartered in Westlake, Ohio, the company has operations and support offices in nearly 40 countries. Visit Nordson on the web.
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