Automatic printed circuit board line for basket plating (ENIG/ENEPIG)

Automatic printed circuit board line
for basket plating (ENIG/ENEPIG)

• Line set-up: 1 line
• 29 processing positions, incl. 3 storage
• Expandable with 6 stations
• 2 side arm hoists with space-saving drip tray
• 2 electroless nickel tanks with each 1 working position
• 1 electroless palladium tank, indirectly heated
• 1 electroless gold tank
• 1 load/unload station
• Hoist positioning in the direction of travel by laser measurement
• „Knocking“ of flight-bars
• 2 goods agitations with adjustable variable speed
• Chemical dosing regulated by digital flow meter (electroless nickel)
• Semiautomatic cleaning and make up of the nickel tanks
• Preparation tank for etching solution (microetch)

• Based on Siemens S7 PLC
• Fully automatic control system
• System supervised by radio remote control
• Dip sequences freely programmable
• Colour-on-screen information re production and plant operation
• Recording of statistical data
• Support via remote maintenance
• Special visualization for the cleaning steps of the electroless nickel tanks