Honored by experts, valued by customers: SIPLACE SX is a hit at NEPCON Shanghai

SIPLACE can add two more major awards to its trophy cabinet for the SIPLACE SX-Series. At the Nepcon Shanghai 2010 trade show in China the SIPLACE team was honored with the EM Innovation Award and the SMT China Vision Award. The independent panels of international experts were especially impressed by the Capacity-on-Demand concept of the SIPLACE SX, which enables new build-to-order concepts and provides much more efficient ways to deal with increasingly frequent product changeovers and massive demand fluctuations.

Mr. Wong Kin Keong (middle), Sales General Manager of SEAS China, receives the SMT China Vison Award during the ceremony held at Nepcon Shanghai on April 20th.

The SIPLACE SX is the world’s first placement machine that allows the user to add or remove gantries in only a few minutes. The award panels found this concept of gantry modularity, which makes it possible to scale placement performance and feeder capacity independently of each other, particularly impressive.

The innovative technology of the SIPLACE SX also received plenty of praise from customers:

Mr. Ou Kai, SMT manager at FiberHome Technologies:

"The SIPLACE SX is exactly the right machine for our requirements. It allows us to invest precisely in what we actually need. It meets all our requirements in terms of economic efficiency."

Mr. Fuhao of Foryou General Electronics Co., Ltd:

"Thanks to its modular gantries, the SIPLACE SX is the best solution for short-term order peaks. It also enables us to individually adapt the capacity of our lines by shifting gantries between them, which is an extremely attractive feature for us."

The SIPLACE SX was already a big hit at the last Productronica in Munich, where it was honored with the Global Technology Award of Global SMT & Packaging Magazine. The new awards make the SIPLACE SX the most honored SMT manufacturing solution in the entire industry.

All these recognitions confirm that the global SIPLACE standards for innovation and process expertise pave the road to success – for the SIPLACE team and its customers. They represent highly welcome rewards for the global SIPLACE team as well as incentives for additional innovations, some of which SIPLACE will unveil to the market in the near future.

The awards in detail

Established in 2006, the EM Asia Innovation Award has honors outstanding performance in the Asian electronics market. It encourages companies in the region to continually strive for excellence and meet the highest standards. The winners are selected by an independent panel of industry experts based on the following categories: innovation, cost efficiency, speed and performance improvement, quality, ease of use, maintenance requirements, and technological advancement.

The SMT China Vision Award, which is also presented by an independent panel of industry experts as well as by readers of SMT China, differentiates between the following categories: creative use of new and existing technologies, total quality, performance continuity, economic value, degree of innovation, cost efficiency, speed and performance improvement, quality, ease of use, maintenance requirements, and environmental compatibility.