Wave Soldering

Fixture cleaning machine SME5300 from Southern Machinery cleans 20~40 reflow and wave soldering fixtures per batch in a 1 m rotating basket, then rinses and hot-air dries them automatically. Closed-loop filtering reuses detergent and rinse water, PLC touch-panel control makes cycles repeatable, and pressure sensors protect the machine. This guide gives a four-step evaluation method, the key specification table from the source datasheet, an example payback formula, and notes on fitting fixture cleaning beside wave soldering, board handling and inspection equipment in a complete PCB assembly line. Figures are per source datasheet; confirm final configuration with Southern Machinery.

The S-100B desktop selective soldering machine from Southern Machinery brings fixture-free, programmable THT soldering to high-mix, low-volume EMS lines, labs and prototyping benches. A 3-axis XYZ robot with ±0.05 mm pos

Desktop selective wave soldering for small PCBA: 1500 W bench-top unit, selective THT joints, line integration, selection checklist and a payback model.

Solvent soaking and hand scrubbing are the expensive way to clean wave solder pallets. See the SME-5200 water-based cycle, filtration and running cost.

THT terminal insertion cell: DD-8600 reel-fed terminals at 0.25 s on two heads in a 4,650 mm line. Check parameters, line fit and payback before you quote.

Single-cell THT odd-form insertion: reel, bowl and tube feeding on one DD-8700 cell, 6,853 inserts/h. Check line fit, parameters, panel math and payback.

The S-100B Desktop Selective Soldering Machine by Southern Machinery delivers ±0.1 mm precision for R&D sampling and small-batch PCB assembly. Its compact 550×650×650 mm, 450 kg desktop footprint supports 350×300 mm soldering area and 0.2–6 mm PCB thickness, with jet-valve flux and a 12 kg solder pot integrating into SMT/THT lines to reduce rework, stabilize joint quality, and lower cost per joint. Built by Southern Machinery — founded 2011 in Shenzhen, serving 237+ global customers — it offers high-efficiency, cost-effective automation with global service, spare parts, and professional training for EMS, ODM, automotive and medical teams needing traceable, repeatable soldering without wave line overhead.

A French EMS provider asked for titanium wave soldering fingers in Jan 2026. The purchase order arrived on 8 Apr 2026 - and the six-step study sequence that produced it is worth copying in full.

Wave soldering fingers for an Indian EMS provider, quoted three days after the enquiry — and only after a structured product study was finished on 13 Dec 2025. Rushing to reply is what gets the profile wrong.

Wave soldering consumables, ESD products, a modular cleanroom and an environmental chamber - four categories that arrived in five days in Argentina, and were handled as one programme instead of four sourcing exercises.

Three spare-part batches for a Turkish instrument manufacturer. The 2026 batch was heading nowhere until a joint supplier and customer meeting turned the enquiry into an order in eleven days.

Wave soldering pallets in a lighting plant have to come back to the line start. Moving them by hand scales badly. The AGV was the last thing specified - and the import paperwork was needed six years later.

After the wave, the pliers come out: manual THT lead trimming is the step most line charts leave out, and it is where yield quietly leaks away. Here is how an inline auto lead cutter closes the gap.

Transformers, relays and connectors still get placed by hand on many THT lines. Run the DIP-Bench Tally, then see how an odd form insertion machine takes that work off the bench.

For high-mix, low-volume THT soldering, fixtures and pallets are a hidden tax. Run the fixture-less fit test, then see how the S100B solders by recalled program instead of mechanical tooling.

On a mixed SMT/THT line, the bottleneck is usually the manual odd-form station. Run the Odd-Form Bottleneck Audit, then see how the S7040 automates transformers, relays and connectors.

THT joints live or die at the wave. Run the Wave Readiness Audit, then see how the S-WS450 holds joint quality.

A synchronized input conveyor that feeds PCBs and pallets into the wave solder inlet at a steady, adjustable rate, replacing manual loading at the THT line.

Full-wave soldering exposes the whole board underside. Run the Selective Solder Audit, then see how the S-SWL31 targets only the THT pads.

Dirty wave-solder pallets and reflow fixtures push flux back onto every board. Run the Fixture-Hygiene Audit, then automate with the SME-5200.

Hand-inserting transformers and connectors on TV boards is the slowest, least controlled station on the line — run the Odd-Form Insertion Audit, then see how the S-70LD automates it.

The XG2000 is a bench-style T8 lamp auto insertion system that automates radial and odd-form THT component placement.

The SME-5200 aqueous cleaning system was run through a factory performance test on production pallets and fixtures; here is what was measured and why it matters.

A floor-standing, fixture-free selective wave soldering machine that programs the board in software and solders only where the process specifies.

A custom wave soldering pressure-plate carrier in high-hardness synthetic stone that holds the board flat and stable through the solder wave.

A custom tooling program covering printing, reflow, wave and insertion fixtures, carriers, clips and cleaning — engineered to your board from prototype to production.

Titanium wave-soldering claws are the conveyor part that holds the PCB flat — a 4-step match protocol turns transport defects into a controlled variable.

A wave soldering machine that forms through-hole joints at volume for THT PCBs, with tunable flux, preheat and wave control for tin-lead and lead-free alloys.

Finger marks, warped pallets, and chain jitter quietly eat your wave soldering yield. A field guide to the consumables nobody budgets for — and the 50/90/100 matching method.

Two desktop solder robots that turn hand-iron work into programmed, documented THT soldering with teach-pendant setup and ±0.02 mm repeatability.

A capability demo of the S-7020 odd-form inserter running mixed through-hole parts — transformers, relays, connectors and terminals — in a single program.

A compact lead-free dual-wave soldering machine for through-hole PCBs up to 250 mm wide, with spray flux, hot-air preheat and fan cooling in one pass.

An offline single-head selective soldering station that brings controlled through-hole soldering to the rework bay, prototype room and low-volume high-mix assembly instead of the main line.

A rice cooker control board case study: the S7020 4-head odd-form inserter automates terminal, connector and relay-pin insertion with clinching before wave soldering.

Our SAGV30C return trolley costs about two months of one operator's wage and removes the walking from wave soldering pallet transport. Here is when an AGV earns its keep — and when it does not.

Lights-out THT is not about emptying the floor overnight. It is about counting every place a person touches a board, then retiring those touches one station at a time.

The SMT side can run unattended. Then boards reach the through-hole benches, and the shift ends when the operators do.

Every pallet in your store is a bet that a board will come back in volume. In HMLV work, most of those bets lose — and the pallet is still on the shelf.

A field-ready start-up checklist for the S7020T THT insertion machine — safety, mechanical, pneumatic and electrical checks plus first-article sign-off.

A reel-fed alternative to bagged FASTON and tab terminals, giving odd-form insertion stations a fixed pick-up point instead of an operator's hand.