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News Release from: Siemens Automation and Drives
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 18 July 2006
Siemens buys 3D optical inspection
systems firm
Siemens Automation and Drives has acquired Opto-Control Elektronik Pruefsysteme, a maker of high-precision automatic 3D optical inspection systems for testing solder joints.
Siemens Automation and Drives (A and D) has acquired Opto-Control Elektronik Pruefsysteme of Bochum, Germany The purchase adds high-precision automatic optical inspection (AOI) systems to Siemens's Siplace surface mount technology business
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 9 Aug 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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Opto-Control's technologically leading inspection systems are fully automated and use the latest 3D sensor technology to detect any solder or placement flaws with exceptional speed.
To ensure the highest possible quality, process controls and automated inspection are becoming increasingly more important in electronics manufacturing.
AOI systems help operators as well as process engineers to optimise their processes and monitor the production output.
The newly expanded Siplace portfolio now combines AOI systems from Opto-Control with the market-leading Siemens SMT placement machines, enabling the high process reliability requirements in electronics manufacturing to be implemented even better than before.
The business with AOI systems will be integrated into the Optical Solutions (OI) unit of A and D's Electronics Assembly Systems division, where it will benefit from Siemens A and D's global sales and service network.
Siemens wants to take advantage of this structure to significantly expand its system with fully automated 3D inspection systems in the future.
* About Siemens A and D - the Siemens Automation and Drives Group (A and D), Nuremberg, Germany, is the leading manufacturer in this field worldwide.
Products supplied by AandD include standard products for the manufacturing and process industries and for the electrical installation industry as well as system solutions, for example for machine tools, and solutions for whole industries such as the automation of entire automobile factories or chemical plants.
Supplementing this range of products and services, A and D also offers software for linking production and management (horizontal and vertical IT integration) and for optimizing production processes.
A and D employs 60,800 people worldwide and in fiscal year 2005 (to September 30) earned a group profit of EUR 1,210 billion on sales of EUR 9.844 billion and orders of EUR 10.190 billion.
As of October 1, 2005, Siemens' Electronics Assembly Systems Division is a member of the company's Automation and Drives Group.
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