What robotic soldering can do to your Electronics Manufacturing line

The automobile industry has been the largest consumer of robotics and automation for a very long time. In fact, around 33% of all the robots produced are for the automobile industry. However, trends seem to be changing now. The demand for automation and robots in the electronics manufacturing industry has been on a steady rise and is currently at 22% (https://medium.com/supplyframe-hardware/robots-and-automation-in-electronics-manufacturing-a77f177585eb)

This figure is estimated to go up in the near future and chances are that the electronics manufacturing industry will become the primary consumer of automation and robotics. Today, we will take a closer look at how robotics is changing the landscape of soldering in the electronics manufacturing industry and why manual soldering is being upgraded to robotic soldering in both small-scale and large-scale companies:

Better Consistency

Robots offer better accuracy and repeatability when it comes to soldering joints. Automation also results in higher quality results since a robot always applies the same amount of solder for the specified period of time and utilises consistent heat. This means that all the components will have the same quality which is not usually the case with human operations. The issue of ‘Monday Morning’ solder joints gets taken care of completely when automation comes into the picture.