The enhanced features handle routine procedures, provide one-click accessible task lists, and update component placement images in real time to help manage tasks and monitor progress. Leveraging this support, users can apply their expertise to ensure the integrity of incoming data and quickly generate high-quality programs.
“The SMT line is where every new product crosses over from the digital world, where it exists as a collection of files from different tools, and becomes a reality. Historically, merging these sources of information into a viable project has been a laborious and time-consuming task,” explained Shuichi Imai, General Manager of Sales for Europe, Yamaha Robotics SMT Division. “By leveraging advanced computing principles and data analytics, the latest version of YSUP-PG now makes programming faster, easier, and more efficient than ever for Yamaha customers.”
Another new feature is that YSUP-PG generates AOI libraries directly from CAD data, ensuring greater efficiency and faster NPI by allowing teams to develop assembly and AOI programs simultaneously. Furthermore, YSUP-PG includes enhanced Gerber and CAM image conversion tools that generate high-precision simulated board images to further simplify AOI programming. The Gerber image tool has built-in image composition capabilities that automatically calculate how to construct the image from the descriptions of the different PCB layers.
The YSUP-PG CAM converter generates highly detailed simulated board images.
Leveraging the precise knowledge of board geometry obtained by combining Gerber and CAD data, YSUP-PG digitally calculates push-up pin positions. These calculated positions eliminate the need for manual adjustments, traditionally performed by referencing a physical assembly, thus reducing user workload and accelerating the time to first assembly (TWA). The images also enable precise benchtop assembly testing, allowing users to verify component coordinates, polarity, and angles in advance, eliminating the need to build test assemblies and ensuring that full production can begin immediately.
