Validation of Pick & Place programs

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We all know that Engineers are human and consequently may ma... - Jan 11, 2008 by K

How are you using to program your pick and place? Unicam, Ci... - Jan 11, 2008 by NHTech

Unfortunately, we are currently manually creating the progra... - Jan 11, 2008 by K

Our programs are created in an ASCII format ( we do not have... - Jan 11, 2008 by Dback

> Our programs are created in an ASCII format ( we >... - Jan 11, 2008 by josh

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Validation of Pick & Place programs | 11 January, 2008

We all know that Engineers are human and consequently may make errors when creating pick and place programs. (e.g. program a wrong part number for a given reference designator) Usually that is easy to detect since the wrong component is a differnt package, or has different markings. However, sometimes the error could be the same package, and may not have any marking on it (e.g. ceramic caps). I'm interested in what others are doing to check / validate new SMT pick and place programs to confirm they are correct. We're throwing some ideas around here, and your ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thank you; K

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NHTech

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Validation of Pick & Place programs | 11 January, 2008

How are you using to program your pick and place? Unicam, CircuitCam?????

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Validation of Pick & Place programs | 11 January, 2008

Unfortunately, we are currently manually creating the programs.

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Dback

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Validation of Pick & Place programs | 11 January, 2008

Our programs are created in an ASCII format ( we do not have Unicam or Circuit cam )So using Microsoft Excel,we open/load the finished PNP program and then we sort it by reference designator.

Still in Excel, we then open/load the BOM (in an ASCII) format and also sort it by reference designator.

Line them up and let Excel formula =if(X1=X1,"OK","NG") check ref designator and part number from the BOM vs PNP.

Works for us.

PS: Replace X on the formula by whatever cell your data is at. When the data on the cell matches, "OK" is displayed. When it doesn't "NG" is displayed instead.

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josh

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Validation of Pick & Place programs | 11 January, 2008

> Our programs are created in an ASCII format ( we > do not have Unicam or Circuit cam ), so we load > the finish PNP program and then we sort it by > reference designator. We then load the BOM in an > ASCII format and also sort it by reference > designator. Line them up and let Excel formula > =if(X1=X2,"OK","NG") check ref designator and > part number from the BOM vs PNP. > > Works for > us. > > PS: Replace X on the formula by whatever > cell your data is at. When the data on the cell > matches, "OK" is displayed. When it doesn't "NG" > is displayed instead.

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