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Yamaha Motor Europe, SMT Section Appoints Sole Agent for Germany
May 28, 2019 | Yamaha Motor Europe SMTEstimated reading time: 2 minutes
Yamaha Motor Europe SMT Section has announced that ANS-Answer Elektronik is to become the sole independent sales agent in Germany for Yamaha surface-mount equipment.
ANS-Answer Elektronik serves a large customer base spanning German high-technology design and manufacturing, and so is positioned to raise the profile of the Yamaha True Total Line Solution among OEMs and electronic manufacturing services (EMS) businesses. The Agreement, also extends to northern Switzerland, where ANS-Answer Elektronik will sell only the iPulse hybrid 2D/3D mounters from Yamaha.
Yamaha expects the new exclusive agreement to boost the established successful sales record through stronger and closer coordination of sales, logistics, and technical activities. “Working solely with ANS-Answer Elektronik will enable us to focus our presence in Germany and northern Switzerland, and further improve our service to the electronics community in the region,” said Ichiro Arimoto, General Manager of Yamaha Motor Europe, SMT section.
Yamaha’s True Total Line Solution delivers flexibility and advanced automation for Europe’s electronic manufacturers to ensure world-class productivity. The portfolio comprises modular printers and mounters with intelligent peripherals, iPulse S10/S20 and M10/M20 hybrid configurable multi-head mounters for 2D and 3D substrates, optical and X-ray inspection systems, and automated component handling. Sharing a common software platform, they are unified by rich inter-machine communication and innovative Y.FacT factory-automation tools to aid setup, real-time diagnostics, and data analytics.
About Yamaha SMT Section
Yamaha Surface Mount Technology (SMT) Section is a subdivision of Yamaha Motor Robotics Business Unit in Yamaha Motor Corporation. Yamaha surface mount equipment is highly acclaimed in the market for their “module concept” that enables them to keep pace with the trend toward smaller and more diverse electric/electronic parts being mounted on circuit boards.
Yamaha SMT Section has created a strong business in the surface mount industry that enables design and engineering, manufacture, sales and service to be conducted in one comprehensive system. Furthermore, the Company has used its core technologies in the areas of servo-motor control and image recognition technology for vision (camera) systems to develop solder paste printers, 3D solder paste inspection, 3D PCB inspection machines, flip chip hybrid placers and dispensers. This allows Yamaha SMT Section to offer a full line of machines for electric/electronic parts mounting and propose optimum production-line makeup to answer the diversifying needs of today’s manufacturers.
Yamaha SMT Section has sales and service offices in Japan, China, Southeast Asia, Europe and North America provide a truly global sales and service network that will safeguard best in class on-site sales & service support for clients.
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