How to Buy Specialized SMT Equipment with Custom Design or Operation Features

When to Consider A Specialized SMT Machine

 

Let’s say you have an unusual product configuration, a unique space requirement, an unorthodox handling system, or an application totally unrelated to the PCB or SMT assembly business, and you can’t find a standard machine provider that can handle your requirements. What then?

 

Time for a custom machine – or perhaps custom features on an existing machine!

 

There are a handful (a very small handful, actually) of true manufacturers of assembly equipment that serve the low- to mid-range volume users. If you want a standard stencil printer, pick and place machine, reflow oven, wave or selective soldering machine, etc., you have dozens of firms to choose from. Most of them, however, are actually importers and/or resellers and have serious limitations on the kind of customization they can do.