Orbotech Announces "First Ever" Automated Optical Repair System for Bare Printed Circuit Board Manufacturing
3 July 2008
Orbotech Ltd announced the worldwide introduction of its new PerFix Automated Optical Repair (AOR) system for shorts and excess copper. According to the company, this is the first of its kind in the bare printed circuit board (PCB) production industry.
“We are very pleased to yet again pioneer a breakthrough production technology for the PCB industry”, commented Hanan Gino, President of the PCB Division at Orbotech Ltd. “By automatically fixing short defects which frequently cannot be repaired manually, this solution will enable manufacturers to achieve major operational cost savings, particularly as the complexity of board designs continues to increase. We have already installed several systems in manufacturing facilities worldwide and the results have been very favorable.”
According to Orbotech, PerFix employs the advanced image acquisition and image processing techniques of Orbotech’s SIP technology for AOI combined with laser control.
