Viscom Strengthens Its Manual and Semiautomatic Inspection for the Electronics Industry

Over the past year, Viscom AG, Hanover, has strengthened its activities in the
area of manual and semiautomatic X-ray inspection and intensified the
technical development of X-ray inspection for the electronics industry. With the
redesign of the successful X8011, the inspection system is now available in
three versions (basic, plus, flex) for fast and effective electronic assembly
inspection. Particular attention was placed on simple and fast operation. In the
context of these future-oriented developments, sales activities also were
strengthened.

With its own development team, production and sales, Viscom is well-equipped
to quickly react to market demands. Thus, the X8011 inspection system has
undergone further development for fast and effective electronic assembly
inspection. With its superb image quality, simple and fast operation and
analyses directed especially to this area, this system optimally covers the
requirements of electronic assembly production.

The rising demand for solutions for nondestructive testing of interior
connections validates the company in its current orientation. Due to the ever-
decreasing size of components and increasing packaging density, many
electronics manufacturers can no longer do without X-ray inspection. Increased
use of BGA and QFP components make X-ray penetration necessary. The
requirements are additionally sharpened with the inspection of THT
components. New application fields such as inspection of surface-soldered
connections are found in the regenerative energies sector.

Rolf Demitz, vice president for the new products business unit at Viscom, who
as of now also is responsible for manual and semiautomatic X-ray inspection,
sees great market opportunities here: "I am very pleased to advance this
promising business. With the redesign of the X8011, we have already started
along the way and can now offer our customers a high performance and
innovative system with superb image quality targeted specifically to electronic
assembly inspection at market-oriented prices. This application is further
supported and supplemented by the deployment of the high performance
computed tomography we have developed to enable the reconstruction of
complex structures."

In the context of these developments, sales activities also have been redirected.
Since April 2012, Christian Wolff has been responsible for the technical sales of
manual and semiautomatic X-ray inspection systems at Viscom. He supports
the branches and worldwide representatives with questions concerning X-ray
applications and the opening of new markets.