Main Equipment

Darlington EMS has invested heavily in modern equipment to ensure we have the most efficient PCB assembly, wire preparation, testing and general manufacturing processes available. This not only helps our market competitiveness but also provides our customers with electronic manufacturing services of the highest quality.

MyData MY 12 Pick & Place Machine

Single machine concept. One machine can produce any board with any component
Up to 14,500 components per hour with 8 nozzle Hydra head
144 × 8 Total feeder capacity
Component sizes from 01005 up to large QFPs, flip chip and odd shaped components
Rigid split axis design for long term placement accuracy
In-line conveyors & manual load adaptors provides throughput and flexibility
Electrical and mechanical verification reduces the risk of incorrect components
Agilis feeder system enables total set up time to be reduced by 50%
Barcodes on magazines & feeders enable inventory and component data tracking

Speedprint SP200avi In-line Stencil Printer

6 Sigma accuracy for fine pitch applications
2D paste inspection, under stencil cleaning, closed loop squeegee control & in-process autopaste inspect all mean defect free printing
Laser tooling with gerber import utility provides board support and helps maintain print quality
Full user programmable print parameters ensure accurate and efficient operation
Automatic stencil load
Automatic rail width adjust
SPC data collection software

Heller 1707 Reflow Oven

Designed and built with 7 for optimised lead free reflow with lowest delta T
Six sigma performance
Integrated KIC thermal profiling software
Edge hold conveyor/mesh belt combination provides handling for single and double sided boards up to 500mm in width
Power width adjust
Battery back up
Closed loop alarms
PC Controlled
Board drop sensor, counter and animation through oven

Seho Wave Soldering System 8100 PCS

Designed for lead free soldering: solder pot, nozzles, channels & pumps
Pallet system and belt conveyor guarantees vibration free transport ensuring highest soldering quality
High process reliability with closed circuit control for all functions
Homogeneous pre-heating of the PCBs using optimised IR heating zones, electronically controlled pump motors and process optimized nozzles ensure high soldering quality
SPC statistical process control enables storage of 100 different solder programs for high flexibility production
Data acquisition and management to ISO 9000 for full traceability

Mirtec – MV-2BTL Automatic Optical Inspection Machine

Our desktop AOI Machine is designed to automatically inspect component placement and solder bridge after reflow. Overall process improvement is gained when using the SPC feature to track and eliminate defects found on previously inspected assemblies.

High resolution camera allows inspection for 0603 mm Chip / 0.4 pitch IC (Option)
OCR engine has the ability to recognize any font, reducing the number of false errors (Feature Extraction Method, Statistical Recognition Method, Register / Delete font by operator)
Superior inspection speed and accuracy with single camera to 2 FOV
Excellent Solder inspection by using special light system
Superior inspection capability by adapting exclusive algorithms for each component
Reduce teaching & debugging time by utilizing component library
Automatically estimate the location of solder and make the solder window right after making Mounting / Bridge window
Integrated all DB for SPC / Repair with network
Reduce teaching time by using well-recognized ATT (Auto Teaching Tool)
Digital zoom

Komax PC 333 Lead Maker

One of the most modern machines available it can cut and produce up to 5,000 pieces per hour delivering terminated, inkjet marked, tinned and twisted wire to customer’s specification.

Komax Alpha 411

Another versatile machine, with all the facilities of the PC 333 as well as updated software. In addition the Alpha incorporates twin tinning stations.

These three machines can be centrally programmed and help facilitate production flexibility.

Ramatech Speedy 35 and Dereeler ABW800/300

One of the foremost machines in the world for cutting and stripping electrical wire. It handles cable with outer diameters from 4 to 35mm (up to 150mm2) and is particularly efficient at processing heavy-duty cable and multicores. It is fully programmable, produces less waste, handles longer strip lengths easily and copes well cutting cable where the copper is out of sync with the insulation.

Stapla Ultrasonic Welding Machine

Provides solid, homogeneous and lasting joints that are ideal for splicing wires, as it provides excellent electric conductivity, no brittle material or excess weld with minimal power input. Will weld wires up to 25mm2.

Schleuniger Power Strip 9500

Pre-programmable machine that is able to cut, strip and inkjet mark wires up to 16mm2.

Schleuniger Strip Crimp 750 (x2)

Electro-pneumatic stripping and crimping machine. Electronically set to process all banded contacts in connection with stranded or single wire conductors with gauges of 0.03mm2 to 4mm2.

Various Bench Presses (x20)

The breadth and versatility of our extensive range of semi-automatic bench presses provide the flexibility to quickly handle a wide variety of connectors and crimps for many applications and industry sectors.

Heavy Duty Presses (x2)

Two heavy-duty presses provide the crimping power and quality demanded for battery and earth cables up to 120mm2.

Applicators (60+)

Various applicators that handle a wide variety of crimp contacts and provide the flexibility to prepare wires to the quality and lead times required by customers.

Miscellaneous

Omni Cutter – ribbon cable cutter Tape wrapping machinery Brady label thermal printer Kodera Casting 351 – cut and strip machine + hot foil marking Z+F stripper crimper for Insulated ferrules.