SIPLACE Press News
SMT Hybrid Packaging 2012
Munich, May 8, 2012
SIPLACE team makes maintenance a core topic at the SMT Hybrid Packaging
show
Maintenance made easy
Innovations in electronics productions are not limited to hardware and software,
as ASM Assembly Systems demonstrates at this year’s SMT Hybrid Packaging
trade show (Hall 7, Booth 204). Since the modern SIPLACE placement solutions
require very little maintenance and the maintenance intervals are getting longer
and longer, electronics manufacturers want new, more flexible maintenance
concepts in addition to the availability of external service technicians. To meet
this demand, the SIPLACE team is rolling out its “Capability Transfer”, a new
model which provides customers not only with the necessary maintenance
expertise, but special tools and equipment as well. The benefit: Customers can
perform their entire maintenance in-house and adapt more effectively to their
individual production requirements. Show visitors will see how they too can
optimize the maintenance procedures for their SMT lines with relatively little
effort and integrate them into their production processes. With the new SIPLACE
service contracts for preventive and verifying maintenance as well as
inspections and improvements, electronics manufacturers can now outsource
even the planning of their maintenance activities. Another growing challenge in
the maintenance field is the verification of machine capabilities. SIPLACE offers
ways to accomplish this either with the help of SIPLACE technicians or do it
entirely in-house with its new Capability Transfer model. Practice-oriented
information about improving maintenance procedures is also available in the
latest issue of the SMT Whitepaper Insights series of publications. To learn more
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about the show program and download this and other SMT Insights brochures,
visit www.siplace.com.
With its presentation at this year’s SMT Hybrid Packaging trade show in Nuremberg,
the SIPLACE team wants to make the industry more aware that there is lots of room for
improving the maintenance processes in many factories. And to better map the
increasingly special requirements of electronics manufacturers, the SIPLACE Service
team developed a new concept with flexibly combinable service modules. The portfolio
ranges from open, company-specific or on-site training seminars to the flexible
“booking” of technicians to SIPLACE’s new “Capability Transfer” program.
New: Capability Transfer as a service model
With its Capability Transfer program, SIPLACE trains and certifies the electronics
manufacturer’s own technicians. It also provides them with the necessary special
measuring devices and tools, either via a licensing deal or in the form of a short-term
rental agreement. That way, SIPLACE customers will be able to have most of their
maintenance tasks performed by their own teams.
The Capability Transfer program even extends to the subject of machine capability
certification, which is playing an increasingly important role in many industries. For
example, the company makes available a kit that includes a special glass board with
reference markers and glass components or ceramic pads for certifying a machine’s
placement accuracy. That way, a manufacturer can perform verifications and test runs
required by customers or for special certifications such as EN ISO 9001 quickly and
cost-effectively with his own staff.
“Despite all the progress we have made to maintenance-free equipment: if you don’t
want to incur the cost of breakdowns or unscheduled line stops in your plant, you must
optimize your maintenance processes. That’s why a flexible production requires flexible
maintenance processes and services. Our latest SMT Insights brochure provides a
good overview of this important subject, and we look forwarding to telling people more
SIPLACE Press Office
Susanne Oswald
Rupert-Mayer-Strasse 44, D-81350 Munich, Germany
Tel.: +49 89 20800-26439; Fax: -24260
E-mail: susanne.oswald@asmpt.com
Internet: www.siplace.com
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about it at our booth at this year’s SMT Hybrid Packaging trade show,” says Thomas
Schneider, product marketing manager on the SIPLACE team.
Precise optimization and organization of all necessary maintenance tasks are the focus of the new
SIPLACE maintenance concepts.
For more information, visit www.siplace.com.
ASM Assembly Systems
At the beginning of 2011, the SIPLACE team (formerly Siemens Electronics Assembly Systems)
became a business unit of ASM Pacific Technology and operates now as ASM Assembly
Systems. With its SIPLACE machines and innovative manufacturing concepts, ASM Assembly
Systems GmbH & Co. KG is the world’s leading manufacturer of surface mount technology
(SMT) placement machines and solutions. Since its beginnings in 1985, the company has
installed almost 25,000 placement machines at over 2,500 customers all over the world.
Electronics manufacturers in all industries such as telecommunications, automotive, IT,
consumer electronics and automation use and depend on SIPLACE’s broad portfolio of
solutions and services.
For more information about ASM Assembly Systems (SIPLACE), visit www.siplace.com.
ASM Pacific Technology
As a subsidiary of ASM International, which has its headquarters in Almere, Netherlands, ASM
Pacific Technology (ASMPT), Singapore, has developed in only a few years into the world’s
leading supplier of chip assembly, bonding and packaging systems and solutions. The ASMPT
SIPLACE Press Office
Susanne Oswald
Rupert-Mayer-Strasse 44, D-81350 Munich, Germany
Tel.: +49 89 20800-26439; Fax: -24260
E-mail: susanne.oswald@asmpt.com
Internet: www.siplace.com
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Group produces and markets machines for front-end and back-end chip assembly and
semiconductor packaging. The company has plants in Hong Kong, China, Singapore and
Malaysia, and since January 1, 2011 in Germany. ASMPT has been listed on the Hong Kong
Stock Exchange since 1989.
ASMPT is one of the stocks in the Hang Seng HK MidCap Index under the Hang Seng
Composite Index, the Hang Seng Information Technology Industry Index, and the Hang Seng
Hong Kong 35 Index.
For more information about ASMPT, visit www.asmpacific.com
Send reader inquiries to:
ASM Assembly Systems GmbH & Co. KG
Susanne Oswald
Email: susanne.oswald@asmpt.com
SIPLACE Press Office
Susanne Oswald
Rupert-Mayer-Strasse 44, D-81350 Munich, Germany
Tel.: +49 89 20800-26439; Fax: -24260
E-mail: susanne.oswald@asmpt.com
Internet: www.siplace.com
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