TAIPEI, Taiwan – C Sun Manufacturing Ltd. has released the UVE M720 manual exposure unit for solder mask imaging and the UVE-M525 high performance solder mask system.
 
Developed for high reliability/high volume applications, the UVE M720 uses high output metal halide lamps that reportedly deliver over 60 Mw/cm² output at the image plane, as well as dual 24” x 36” exposure frames to ensure high throughput. An LCD touch screen panel allows precise control of all operating parameters
 
The UVE-M525 uses an in frame dual target/dual camera CCD registration system and glass/glass tooling said to ensure proper substrate alignment and the ability to photo pattern very fine line geometries. Metal halide lamps reportedly ensure high throughput on panels up to 22” x 26”.
 
Both systems have features that include touch screen control, system self-diagnostics, and dual air/indirect water cooling for longer lamp lifetimes and precise frame temperatures.
 

FLEMINGTON, NJ – DEK has released a new CAD platform that utilizes standardized design rules to maximize the quality of tooling used during high accuracy mass imaging. It is completely automated, enabling repeatable and optimized interpretation of PCB data in the production of dedicated custom tooling.
 
The system enables DEK to share CAD resources between different CAD offices, facilitating the consistent delivery of the same capacity and product, regardless of other variables.

“DEK’s ongoing commitment to innovation, coupled with the increasingly high demand for our tooling means that it is absolutely imperative that we consistently refine our processes to extend capacity, efficiency and end-user benefits,” said Phil Lambert, DEK European tooling manager. “The new CAD platform is a great example of this, as a significant technical advance born entirely out of customer demand. Previously, manual interpretations meant that mistakes could be made during the manipulation of customer data. With our new, automated approach, customers are guaranteed consistently high quality tooling at an impressive two day turnaround for standard PCBs.”

MONTREAL, Canada – Cimmetry Systems Corp. has released 2D and 3D native document visualization for AutoCAD 2007, Mechanical Desktop 2007, Inventor 11 and Pro/Engineer Wildfire 3.0.
 
Native document viewing is said to enable customers, suppliers and partners to instantly view original documents without undergoing costly and error prone file conversions.
 
Service Pack 1 for AutoVue 19.1 (Windows) is immediately available to AutoVue customers that are currently under maintenance.
 

 
The ProtoLaser 100 is reportedly ideal system for the laser structuring, milling and drilling of circuit carriers. A special laser system removes the copper layer between the conductive strips without affecting the substrate. Printed circuit board prototypes with 50 µm (2 mil) structures can be manufactured quickly and flexibly.