Assembly in Action: Servomotors Increase Coating Machine Accuracy, Throughput
In 2009, the conformal coating company SCH Technologies and specialist automation designers SMS Machines & Automation Ltd. formed Advanced Coating Robotics (ACR). The purpose of ACR is to develop highly automated machines that apply conformal coatings to electronic components.
In December 2010, the company introduced its first conformal coating machine, the MACCS 400. This machine quickly applies protective conformal coatings to PCB-mounted components, and can accommodate both inline and batch processing operations. It can coat PCBs as large as 500 by 480 millimeters and on-board components as high as 90 millimeters.