PnP Machine Evaluation
There is a general healthy amount of skepticism towards all these solution but since technology is evolving fast we might have reached a point where such a machine is good enough for projects like us that assemble a medium amount of PCBs per batch.
1 Charmhigh CMHT48VA
5.650 $
3000-4000 parts/hour
2 cameras/vision systems
Linux inside
number of reels?
2 NeoDen TM220A, TM240A, TM245P
http://www.printtec.nl/contents/en-uk/d583_NeoDen_pick___place_machines.html
http://dangerousprototypes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=68&t=7097
http://forums.parallax.com/discussion/153947/28-reels-2-heads-5799-pnp-getting-good-reviews/p2
3 Visionbot
2000 parts/hour
3000$ - 6500$ options (depending on number of feeders)
"We have two VisionBot machines that are gonna be shipped nationally in Romania to two customers. One will be shipped next Saturday. We prefer national customers first, because in case they find any malfunctions in VisionBot, we are able to fix them fast. Unfortunately, we can not ship it right away. We are looking to redesign the feeding system (at least 3 weeks) because it takes too much time for us to create and manufacture the automatic feeding system within VisionBot."
4 Diy options
LitePlacer :
Nice diy option at 1200€. Of course don't expect the same productivity as other machines. http://www.liteplacer.com/shop20/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=55 Code is here : https://github.com/jkuusama/LitePlacer-DEV
Other build :
https://amesberger.wordpress.com/2013/07/18/diy-pick-and-place-machine/