Automated Programming System

 

Automated Programming System AH-480 (UPH is up to 3000)

Why should we use Automated Programming System?

When you have the large quantities programming requirement, what should you do?
To buy an Automated programming system or manual programmers?
For most of people, to buy an Automate programming system seem to be very expensive, indeed, you do have to cost some budget on it.  But is the cost really higher than manual programmers?
For the list price of the product, of course Automate programmers are much expensive.

Manual Gang Programmer SU-320 (Able to support 16 devices at the same time) 

I think most buyers forget or underestimate the cost of the payment to the workers.
If you need to  program 40 K devices per day, you will definitely not choose manual programmers.

That's because you will need to hire more than 10 workers for this mass production. (We assume the UPH of the manual programmer is 350 to 400) If the average payment per month for one worker is USD 1000, it will cost you USD 10000 per month.

But if you use an Automated programming system such as AH-480, the UPH is amazing  up to 3000. So you only need 2 workers to operate the system. Which means you can save at least USD 8000 per month. Though the list price of Automated programmer is much expensive, but if we consider it from the long term  perspective (Actually, less than one year), it can save much budget.


Besides, the yield rate for Automated programmer is up to 99.8 %, which is definitely higher than manual programmer.  There is logfile for each device, so it is easy to check the quality and quantity of the devices.

In fact , for mass production, the adaptors of manual programmers are easily to damage than using the adaptors of the Automated programmers.  Because the state of stress is evenly distributed, whereas the adaptors of manual programmers are not. The useful time of adaptors of Automated programmers could be twice as much than the manuals'.


Here is the introduction video which shows how AH-480 work:

In conclusion, if you have the mass production requirement. To buy an automated programming system is the best solution.  Of course, due to the different programming speed of different devices, the UPH will be different. So you will need to check with the manufacture of IC programmers to confirm that. (Note: AH-480 is the world top mass production programming system now.)

 If AH-480 is too large and not what you need.(If the programming quantities is not so many.)
In the next article, I will update another programming system which is suit for office.