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High-tech Consortium Will Develop Sustainable Pick-and-place Technologies
February 2, 2010 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
VELDHOVEN, The Netherlands — Royal Philips Electronics subsidiary Assembléon has started a research project to develop a new generation of sustainable pick-and-place solutions for the electronics assembly industry. The goals are to pick & place components sustainably and minimize the environmental impact of the machine in its design phase. The Dutch government has provided a substantial financial subsidy to the project.
The new activity by Assembléon is part of an overall development project called SUPREME (SUstainable PRoduction EquipMEnt). Partners in this project include companies and institutions from the Dutch Brainport Region, a high tech hot spot in the Netherlands and one of the top seven Intelligent Communities in the world. Besides Assembléon, the Technical University of Eindhoven, top research institute TNO, Xycarb Ceramics, Tegema Group en Fiberworx will work together in 2010 to develop sustainable pick-and-place solutions.
“The SUPREME project aims to bring more balance between functional and economic requirements of production equipment along with sustainability aspects,” explains Jeroen de Groot, Assembléon’s marketing director. “Electricity consumption, volume, and weight minimization, and using recyclable materials contribute to a better environment and lower manufacturing costs. The partners in the SUPREME project will develop a sustainable pick & place machine as the first initiative. The knowledge and insights this project will bring us will also be available for other companies in our Brainport region in the future,” he added.
Subsidy for this research project has been given to the partners of the SUPREME project by SenterNovem, the sustainability office of the Dutch ministry of Economical Affairs, and the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research.
Assembléon, a 100% subsidiary of Royal Philips Electronics, designs and manufactures surface-mount pick & place solutions for the electronics industry. www.assembleon.com Read Assembléon's article about designing sustainable placement systems: The Environmental Impact of Pick-and-place Machines
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