AEi® DEVELOPING NEW FLEXIBLE PLATFORM FOR LASER PROCESSING
Standard Vision-Guided Station for Laser Welding, Marking, Cutting, and Drilling
Wilmington, MA– February 15, 2007 Automation Engineering Incorporated (AEi), a global supplier of high precision automation systems, announced today that it nearing completion of the development of a flexible vision guided laser processing platform for product development and production applications.
AEi Chief Technology Officer, Andre By, stated, “We have been designing and delivering custom vision-guided automation stations for a wide range of applications for many years. This includes laser welding station to manufacture medical devices and precision opto-electronic packages, laser cutting stations for MEMS and electronic packages, and laser cutting of silicon wafers for making solar cells, amongst others.”
“We are now leveraging our established expertise to develop a more generalized platform that will support these type of applications on a standard station.. A key element will be our FlexAuto™ integrated controls software for machine vision enabled flexible automation. This will allow customers to easily create or modify machine vision-driven recipes to automate laser processes to manufacture a variety of different products and in different shapes and forms.” concluded By.
About Automation Engineering Incorporated
Automation Engineering Incorporated (AEi) is a leading supplier of high-precision automation systems across the optoelectronics, medical devices, consumer products, aerospace/ defense, and other world-wide markets. AEi provides comprehensive design for manufacturing, process development, and pre-production build services in addition to complete turn-key automated manufacturing stations and lines. For more information, visit AEi’s website, www.aeiboston.com.