Streamline Your Workflow with SMT & THT Automation

Field notes from Jason Wu — 30+ years of hands-on THT auto insertion experience. Articles on custom-designed SMT & THT machines, odd-form feeding, wave soldering, and spare parts for future-proof, cost-effective EMS production lines.

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Oct 6, 2026

Southern Machinery cross-references, machines and vacuum-tests Siemens and ASM SIPLACE pickup nozzles for smart EMS lines: 7xx/9xx special nozzles for the 12-star head, the ceramic and plastic 10xx to 30xx families the X-series manual lists as wear parts, and custom grippers and rubber tips for odd-form components. Matching runs in three steps - identify by item number and head, verify with a first article on your own machine, replicate under one code with the match tier printed on the quotation - so a replacement behaves like the part you already trust. Every quotation line states the nozzle-changer field, and the manual's own cleaning discipline keeps spare sets requalifying instead of quietly costing pickup yield.

Oct 6, 2026

The S-300B radial lead molding and taping machine takes loose radial components out of a bulk bowl and delivers a sealed paper-tape pack — boxed or coiled — at a published 180 ± 20 components per minute, with lead forming, polarity checking, re-orientation, value testing and reject ejection in one pass before the tape reaches your inserter. For EMS and ODM plants running through-hole lines, it moves the tape specification — pitch, hole diameter, taping height and polarity direction — inside your own process, where a reversed electrolytic is turned instead of shipped. Published figures are reproduced from the supplied documents and open points are printed rather than averaged; every throughput and payback number is example arithmetic on your own inputs.

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