Optomec has announced the release of its proprietary software, KEWB, designed specifically for high volume production of 3D printed electronics. Based on the experience of 400 installed Aerosol Jet industrial printers, KEWB targets high-volume production customers working with applications such as multi-chip packaging, millimeter-wave interconnects, heterogeneous chip integration, and 3D-printed antennas for 5G devices.
KEWB offers enhanced operator guidance, powerful vision and alignment tools, extended runtime process control, and Industry 4.0 connectivity to meet manufacturers’ requirements. Its powerful scripting capability will enable automated sequencing of critical process steps for continuous online production, such as loading, scanning, aligning, printing, inspecting, and unloading.
The software launch follows the introduction of the Aerosol Jet HD2 printer, a high-precision printed electronics and material dispensing platform that combines high speed, submicron resolution, SEMI-compliant inline transport, and advanced alignment optics in one 300 x 300 format. work area mm.
“The new KEWB software simplifies everything from process integration to operations sequencing and maintenance.” said Dave Gleason, manager of software development at Optomec.
“In addition, it’s configurable for multiple user levels, so the engineer sees a full-view toolkit while the machine operator sees a simplified pictorial sequence of process steps. The whole software approach is focused on production.”
KEWB streamlines process integration, operations sequencing and maintenance with full focus on production, and Optomec printers are widely used in defense and aerospace, energy, medical devices, advanced electronic packaging and research domains.
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