Lawo is preparing to meet increasing product demand with investment in a high-precision SMD production line from market leader Fuji Europe Corporation GmbH.
‘As a manufacturer of top video and audio technology, we guarantee compliance with the highest production quality standards, ’ says Lawo Chief Marketing Officer, Andreas Hilmer. ‘After all, our products must provide our clients with years of reliable service around the clock, so it goes without saying that our manufacturing technology must also be the most modern the market has to offer.’
Lawo develops, manufactures and distributes advanced network, control, audio and video systems for TV and radio, industry, live sound and theatre applications. These IP-based products are manufactured to the highest quality standards at the company’s headquarters in Rastatt, Germany, where Lawo employs about two-thirds of its approximately 300 worldwide employees. To meet its demanding requirements, Lawo has invested in three Fubi Aimex-series pick-and-place machines, which can assemble around 30,000 components per hour of even the smallest component size, EIA 01005, equivalent to twice the diameter of a human hair.
‘Aimex IIIc is a machine platform that enables any type of production and changes in the package shapes used,’ explains Fuju Europe Corporation MD, Stefan Janssen. ‘It supports in one machine the processing of smallest chip components up to large components. At the same time, it is possible to easily ramp up new productions or react to changes in package shapes. This creates a high degree of flexibility.’
‘With this investment of around €1m in our production line, we are securing Lawo’s future viability as a manufacturer of high-quality hardware products and ensuring that we can continue to map the full vertical range of manufacture within the company,’ says Chief Supply Chain Officer, Christian Lukic. ‘This enables us to remain independent in the future, and to ensure our quality standards as befits a premium manufacturer of broadcast and media technology.’
The new production line also includes an integrated vapour phase soldering furnace and automated component storage cabinets, which save working time and space and extend the shelf life of parts and components.
‘This sophisticated new production line works much more precisely than its predecessor,’ says Lukic. ‘It reduces the possibility of errors nearly to zero and reduces set-up times while significantly increasing placement speed – a clear step towards Lawo’s continued successful future.’
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