Third Ersa Technology Forum
Third edition of Ersa Technology Forum
Another successful event with in-house exhibition in Wertheim
Ersa once again welcomed numerous participants from the DACH region to the third “Electronics Manufacturing Technology Forum”. Once again, trends and innovations in electronics manufacturing were presented – with attractive lectures, an in-house exhibition and live demonstrations.
Day one was dedicated to the PCB. Ralph Fiehler (KSG GmbH) spoke about “PCBs for high frequency and radar applications”, which are increasingly used in the automotive sector at 77 GHz, but are also relevant for applications such as water levels or in traffic monitoring. Amir Al Kassou (Infineon Technologies) spoke on “Power semiconductor interface and interconnect technology”. Power semiconductor modules are used for energy conversion in converters, for example for variable-speed drives in industry, renewable energy, automotive or medical technology.
The demand is for increasingly higher power density and integration with absolute reliability – here the trend is partly towards solderless assembly, for example by means of press-fit connections. After the lunch with short presentations on the system, Ersa Sales Manager Stefan Wurster presented system trends in soft soldering for wave, selective and press-fit technology. Wolf Rüdiger Pennuttis (Viscom AG) demonstrated the importance of inline inspection of assemblies in power electronics and presented typical inspection tasks in the environment of bonding wires.
Day two was dominated by digitization: the i-CON TRACE was presented, which for the first time enables complete traceability and can be operated intuitively. Wolfgang Heinecke (Mycronic GmbH) presented the protocol-based Hermes standard IPC-HERMES-9852, which will soon replace the current SMEMA interface for more direct machine-to-machine communication.
Service quality further improved
Nicolas Bartschat, Product Manager Digitization, demonstrated via live demo the possibilities of the modular Kurtz Ersa CONNECT platform, which further improves the service and process quality of Kurtz Ersa equipment and brings comprehensive transparency to the production process. Finally, Ronny Witzgall (SMA Solar Technologies AG) demonstrated “Industry 4.0 from the user´s perspective” and provided insights into the work of a database administrator of heterogeneous networks. At the end of the two-day event, organizers and participants were satisfied all along the line.
