SIPLACE SX will be the showcase at the new Elektronik 10 Show in Odense, Denmark. This latest innovation by the SIPLACE team can be seen in Hall A, Booth 1934 at the show, together with its comprehensive Capacity-on-Demand concept. SIPLACE SX is the world's first placement platform that allows the user to scale performance and capacity separately. The SX gantries, the unique SIPLACE MultiStar CPP head, flexible setup and line concepts as well as innovative SIPLACE rental services enable electronics manufacturers for the first time to let their production “breathe” in line with their order situation. This opens up totally new short-term and long-term Capacity on Demand business models for electronics producers.
The latest SIPLACE machine generation is the first to offer a consistent Capacity-on-Demand concept. To add, remove or transfer feeder performance between SX lines, the self-calibrating, SX gantries can be installed and uninstalled by a single person in less than 30 minutes.
SIPLACE MultiStar CPP head and flexible setup concepts
The new SIPLACE MultiStar CPP is the perfect placement head for this Capacity-on-Demand concept. With its different placement modes, the 12-nozzle MultiStar covers 98 percent of the popular relevant spectrum and can operate as a high-speed as well as an end-of-line head. When SX gantries are added, the software identifies placement bottlenecks, which are then eliminated by the SIPLACE MultiStar CPP head for optimized line balancing. The scalable SIPLACE SX makes the constant line modifications and reconfigurations, which are so troublesome with classic placement machines, a thing of the past.
Modern setup concepts enhance the flexibility of SX lines even further. Thanks to the options and capabilities of the various SIPLACE setup concepts, conveyor capabilities and software options, manufacturing each board with the utmost efficiency is no longer a problem – even in high-mix environments with frequent product changeovers and small lot sizes.
New business models for electronics manufacturers: Renting performance
New services represent another major component of the Capacity-on-Demand concept. For example, electronics manufacturers can easily add more performance by renting additional SX gantries and placement heads. “Rent-a-Gantry” is an attractive option for all production scenarios where long-term orders are the exception rather than the rule, for example when new products are being introduced or seasonal demand peaks have to be met. The benefit for the manufacturer: when the demand declines, he simply returns the rented gantries and doesn’t have to burden his balance sheet with additional fixed assets.
Visit the SIPLACE Booth in Hall A, Booth 1934 for further information
The SIPLACE SX is the world's first placement platform
that allows the user to scale performance and capacity separately
For more information about SIPLACE, visit www.siplace.com.
Please direct any reader inquiries to:
Siemens
Electronics Assembly Systems AB
Ewa Troëng
E-mail: ewa.troeng@siemens.com
