AOI Inspection equipment for populated PCB's

Cost, ease of use, consistency, ease of programming......Mirtec Hands down, period.

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I have just carried out an evaluation project including Mirtec, MVP, Landrex and Viscom. If you are interested in my findings you can contact me offline. In short though, we found that each had plus points to them. If you could join together the outstanding points from each and make an AOI it would be excellent. Probably best all round value were the MVP and Mirtec. Be aware that a lot of the 'nice' tools are add-ons and don't come as standard!

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Hello, OMRON machine looks very good.

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we have omron, before buy I have evaluated lot of other machines, what I like most is the three ring at different angle lighting which allows pseudo 3-d solder joint evaluation and historgams with statistics, you can see out of total solder joints how many are with no wetting, with excess solder, with poor solder etc and you can use this as feedback to update your stencil

ommron have patent on this lighting and all other pretend they have the same, but they dont as even if they have different color lighting it's not on different angles and do not allow this 3d imaging

the programming is not so easy as on the other machines as it have lot of parameters which you can tweak, and this need experienced personal who to have played with all the parameters and make the programs, but once you learn what and how to do you can do things which are impossible to be done to the other "easy" to program machines.

so if you prefer the computer to think and write the programs instead of you - pick easy to program machine, if you want professional tool which gives you lot of freedom but have longer learning curve get one which allow you to make the program yourself

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