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Hard and soft pick-up points

Hard or Soft Pickup Caps

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