Asm Assembly Systems Singapore Pte. Ltd.

Asmpt Smt Singapore Pte. Ltd.

Michael Westlake

Charles Tones

David Andrew Foggie

Richard Cockram

Simon Pape

George Bareham

Anthony Cheeseman

Andrew Mark Milner

David Foggie

A method of gripping a substantially planar workpiece while providing compensation for variations in thickness is described. During the process, the workpiece is overdriven into a clamping member before clamping force is applied, and the positions of the clamping member before and after application of the clamping force are measured. These measurements are then used to control a compensating movement of the tooling table and optionally a final lift of the conveyance rails.

Method for gripping variable thickness workpieces in a printing machine

An alignment system for a workpiece printing machine comprises a stencil support and a workpiece support, and a planarity control mechanism having at least two actuators arranged to effect relative rotation of the stencil support and workpiece support about both the horizontal axes.

Planarity alignment of stencils and workpieces

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Michael Westlake