K-TECH ELECTRONIC VERTRIEBS GMBH

The peel force is a critical parameter for every user of Tape & Reel. If the peel force is too low, the cover tape will not stick on the carrier tape properly and the components may fall out of the pockets. A too high peel force will cause costly down times at the pick & place machines. The KT 5000 peel force tester from KTECH is the ideal tool to measure the peel force on your production floor. For measuring, a strip of the carrier tape is loaded into the KT 5000 and the cover tape is attached to the sensor. The constant movement of the carrier tape is done with a sprocket wheel. The movement speed is controlled with an encoder. The design of the KT 5000 guarantees the same peel angle and the same peel point during the whole measurement. Before each run, the KT 5000 is doing a selfcalibration of the sensor. The measured values are transferred to a PC via a serial RS232 interface. A green bar on the screen shows a good result, if the measurement is out of limit, the bar is red.

Counting and marking the components of an open reel allows inventory management with maximum accuracy. The enormous advantage of printing on the cover t ape lies within the lack of necessity for more than one counting per reel. Never recount another reel. SMARTcount is a reliable, fast, easy to operate machine with high performance. SMARTcount is designed to code reels of SMD components to enable stores personnel to quickly and accurately gauge the quantity of product remaining on a reel. The machine is used to unwind a reel of components, then rewind it printing a component count onto the cover tape as it rewinds. Increase stock count accuracy with the elimination of manual counts Reduce material handling and machine changeover times Eliminate disruptions in daily production line operation