Got a new SSMT machine. Anyone have a quick start guide on how to use this thing. The manual is really terrible. While it does a fair job of explaining
what things are, it offers zero for how to use and when. The quick start guide on the website is a bad joke 99% useless. What is needed is a step by step
guide on how to use the machine. I had to rely on youtube video to learn how to load one of the yamaha feeders, maybe i'm asking too much but you'd
think some basic info would be supplied. Very frustrating not to have basic minimal documentation.

Hi,


Yes, we tried that but many parts of the manual are incoherent to english speakers. Reading the manual top down is an exercise in frustration.
It might work if your are familiar with P&P, but worthless if your are a new user (raises hand).

A step by step guide that should be along these lines: and save you lots of questions that are repeated over and over

To get up to speed quickly you will need to do these steps in this order

1. Calibrate machine first
- see page xyz in the manual
2. Import your parts file
- How to import specific files from your software. Page xyz - follow these steps
3. You need to set these parameters at a minimum
1. xyzzy position
2. abc position
where in the manual this is located.
4. What to look for on your first placement job

"We offer web training for all customers!" what / how /when maybe this is what we need and or least a video that show the complete
setup process. How does this web training work - first I hear of it?

Training you provided was just excellent. Much appreciated.

I must agree that the manual is not great. Very basic things are missing which could seem obvious to an experienced user but forces non-experienced users to use imagination on how things should be done. This is a waste of time and could leed to problems.

A quick start guide should be added with step by step instructions for a first basic run, including the minimum of how to place the tape on the feeders, how to place the PCB, vacuum settings for each nozzle.

We have more or less got the machine running but some components (ICs) are being placed at a small angle, cannot properly adjust the Z-axis for each component height, nerby components are being blown away when a new component is placed (this behaviour is random), and some other problems.

Michael, could it be possible to do a web tutorial as I see this is offered for new users? Sometime this week?

Thank you

Quantity is not a measure of quality. And my manual is only 66 pages, maybe its an old version.

The only reference to put delay on the manual says that if parts are placed randomly wrong increase put delay. By how much? Is this different for different type parts? how much delay for each type of part? A lot of information is left to trial and error which means a lot of wasted time on the users part.

So is this web tutorial that you advertise possible or not?

And by the way we had already increased the put delay from 25 to 75 and 150ms and still having problems with parts being blown away

And the suction delay to 150ms

We have the 2500-DP-CL16.

does this still apply?

Hi Michael.

You still have not answered to my question about when we can do the web training. You seem a bit reluctant to do it, when it is something you advertise and a main reason why we bought this machine.

Ty