Surface-mount technology component placement systems, commonly called pick-and-place machines, are robotic machines which are used to place surface-mount devices onto a printed circuit board. They are
Internal details of a two head, gantry style pick-and-place JUKI SMT machine. In the foreground are tape and reel feeders, then the (currently empty) conveyor belt for printed circuit boards, and in back are large parts in a tray. The gantry carries two pickup nozzles, flanking a camera (marked "do not touch" to avoid fingerprints on the lens).
Tape-and-reel feed mechanism used to load components into a pick-and-place machine
SMD pick-and-place machine (with simulated motion blurs)
Surface-mount technology, originally called planar mounting, is a method in which the electrical components are mounted directly onto the surface of a printed circuit board. An electrical component mo
Pick-and-place machine
…Surface-mount technology (SMT) component placement systems, commonly called pick-and-place machines (PnP or P&P), are robotic machines which are used to place surface-mount devices…
Surface-mount components on a USB flash drive's circuit board. The small rectangular chips with numbers are resistors, while the unmarked small rectangular chips are capacitors. The capacitors and resistors pictured are 0603 (1608 metric) package sizes, along with a very slightly larger 0805 (2012 metric) ferrite bead.
A MOSFET, placed upon a British postage stamp for size comparison.
Assembly line with pick-and-place machines