NGOK Skimmers in SMT Equipment: Multi-Scenario Applications Drive Market Growth

NGOK Skimmers in SMT Equipment: Multi-Scenario Applications Drive Market Growth

I. Core Functions and Market Positioning

As the core equipment at the end of SMT production line, NGOK board acceptor realises the automatic sorting and storage of PCB boards through the linkage of optical detection signals. The dual-channel processing system can simultaneously handle OK boards (good) and NG boards (defective), single machine processing speed of 1200-1500 pieces / hour, compared with the traditional manual sorting efficiency by more than 5 times. 2025 global SMT auxiliary equipment market size of 1.68 billion U.S. dollars, of which the board receiving market size of 1.28 billion U.S. dollars. 1.68 billion U.S. dollars in 2025, of which the board receiving machine accounted for more than 25%, becoming the standard equipment for smart factories.

Second, the key application areas of analysis

1. consumer electronics manufacturing

In the production line of smart phones and smart wearable devices, dual-rail skimmer is adapted to multi-size PCB boards through dynamic width adjustment technology (adjustable range of 300-600mm), which can achieve 99.6% accuracy rate of good product sorting with AOI inspection system. After the introduction of this equipment to one of Huawei's 5G mobile phone production lines, the number of machines managed per person increased from 3 to 8, and manpower costs dropped by 40%.

2. Automotive Electronics

For the production of automotive-grade ECU boards, the equipment integrates an ESD protection module (compliant with ISO10605 standards) and a closed-loop temperature and humidity monitoring system, which reduces the defective rate of BGA packaged devices from 0.15% to 0.03%. Bosch China adopts customised models in ADAS controller production line, real-time data interaction with MES system through SMEMA interface, and quality traceability efficiency is increased by 60%.

3. Medical Device Manufacturing

In implantable medical device production, the equipment is equipped with antimicrobial coating shell and IP54 protection level to meet the requirements of aseptic workshop environment. Medtronic cardiac pacemaker production line introduced constant temperature type board closing machine, through ± 0.5 ℃ temperature control module to protect the stability of micro PCB board storage.

4. Industrial control equipment

For industrial control motherboards, the equipment supports 4 kinds of PITCH step settings (2.5-10mm), and can automatically identify FR4, aluminium substrate and other different materials PCB. The Siemens PLC production line can shorten the line changeover preparation time to 15 minutes by configuring the cache bin module.

Technical Advantages and Market Competitiveness

1. Structural design innovation

Dual-rail independent drive system: Adopting Panasonic PLC-controlled dual-pusher mechanism to achieve simultaneous processing of NG/OK boards.

Fast positioning technology: through the combination of positioning slot and block design, the docking precision of collection cabinet reaches ±0.1mm.

Modular expansion: support the addition of dust removal unit or vacuum adsorption module, to adapt to the needs of FPC flexible board storage.

2. Intelligent upgrade

Data interconnection: Standard SMEMA interface can upload equipment OEE, fault code and other 12 production indicators.

Adaptive adjustment: AI algorithm optimises the pushing force according to the historical data, reducing the board surface scratch rate by 0.2%.

Visualisation and monitoring: The human-machine interface displays key data such as the number of boards received, yield distribution, etc. in real time.

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