Pick and Place Machine
My team and I are tasked to create an educational use of the Pick-and-Place Machine as our second-year design project. The target audience for this product would be university departments seeking to provide in-house printed circuit board (PCB) fabrication and assembly services to their students. The team has designed and documented a report on this design.
Full Assembly Exploding View
Here is an animation of the PNP machine assembly. All the parts in this assembly are shown in this exploding view.
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Pick/Place Mechanism
I was assigned with one of my teammates to design the “picking” and “placing” mechanism in which the vacuum nozzle would “pick” and “place” a component from the reel and “place” it on the circuit board. We communicated well and design this in a relatively short time.
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Nozzle Setup
This is the vacuum nozzle setup for the PNP setup. It is designed to "pick" the electrical component via suction.
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Full Assembly
Here is the design of the PNP machine. It follows the same mechanism as the 3D printer. The nozzle moves in the Cartesian coordinate system.
