Soldering Process Control for a Pick-And-Place Machine
Customer's Requirement:
Development of a soldering process control
The customer wants a soldering process control with integrated heating unit control for his pick-and-place machine.
Project Scope:
Implementation:
- Triggering of 6 radiant heaters (2kW) and fans
- Adjustment control of heating power according to downloaded soldering profile
- Show on external display
- Communication with higher-level host computer
- PC-Software for easy control and test of soldering profiles
Hardware:
- Infineon C166/C167 for temperature control and monitoring
Software:
- Zuken Cadstar 9.0 (circuit diagram, layout)
- Keil C166 for μC-Coding
- Visual Basic 6.0 for PC-Software
Tasks:
- Creation of specification according to user requirement specification
- Development of hardware PCB and device wiring
- Creation of circuit diagram, layout and engineering documents
- µC-software development for
- Temperature control
- Abnormal temperature protection
- Communication with higher-level host computer
- Selection of external display
- PC-software development for easy control and test of soldering profiles