Unversal Advantis platform

Hi Tom,

Spoke with our technical team and our feeder division tells me that the GSM Pneumatic feeders are not compatible with the Advantis Machines, however the Multi Pitch 24 Volt Feeders are.

We have a large customer base that uses the Advantis machines and historically once a line is running, they keep running. Pretty sturdy machines.

I am waiting on once answer back about the flex heads vs. lighting heads and will let you know as soon as we have some feedback from our techs.

If we can help you out with machines when your ready to buy, please let us know! - Kathy

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Hi Tom,

I work with Universal Instruments Corp in Illinois. Are you planning on buying used equipment or would you be interested in remanufactured UIC equipment that is completely rebuilt by UIC and comes with a warranty?

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I might answer some of your questions:

1 - in order to use old 24V feeders, Advantis needs 24V feeder kit installed. As far as I figured out, it's only 24V transformer and wiring, so I guess you can do it yourselves if the machine is not upgraded

2 - nozzles for FlexJet2 heads are different from Flexjet3 or Inline7 heads

3 - I do not have Lightning heads, but what I heard from a colleague, there are some limitations whih you should be aware of - parts must be lower than 6mm, no nozzle changes once the product placement starts and yes, they are completely different from FJ nozzles. Head itself seems to be pretty reliable, though.

Note that Advantis is single-gantry machine, as it uses both spindles to drive the beam, so GSM2 with two FJ heads might actually be faster.

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I used to have Advantis lighting head more than 10years ago. My feedback is general for the machine. Machine was sturdy and well built. Head is humongous, but spindles are individually removable and easy to maintain and fix. Feeders should be intelligent electric to use the machine accuracy. Once you have it tweaked(was not so easy to do) and running, you can't stop this machine running all day long. I personally did not care about the software layout they had back then. It was old style with too many menus/sub-menus that you have to remember- in general not intuitive or user friendly. Now it might be different.

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Thanks for all of the comments and information. We ended up going with the AC-30L. We ran our first sticky panel once it was installed this week. It is a very impressive machine. I think it will do well for us in this application. Hopefully it treats us as well as our GSM's which have been solid for years.

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