Hard and soft pick-up points
Leveling the Surface of Interconnect for Auto-Insertion
Many headers, connectors, inductors and hardware components have irregular top surface features preventing vacuum suction necessary to be picked and placed.
NPI offers various services to create a flat, level top surface for these components.
- "Hard hats" or plastic pick-up points - 0.30 ea applied topin headers, box receptacles and shrouded headers in sizes from 1mm, 1.27mm(0.05"), 2mm and 2.54mm (0.1") pitch.
- Kapton discs or tape applied to box headers or Board-to-Board Connectors - $0.15 per unit