New Tech on the Surface Mount Assembly Line

Maintenance versus New Equipment

It’s a scenario as old as machine-assisted manufacturing itself: an existing functioning-for-now piece of equipment is now an older model and the possibility of increasingly costly repairs is becoming higher and higher so you investigate whether acquiring a newer model now is more beneficial, or if waiting a little longer could give you an edge. Our most recent iteration of this scenario resulted in the former option, and thus new opportunities have emerged.