SolderStar Ltd, a leading specialist in the design, development and manufacture of thermal profiling equipment for the lead-free electronics industry presented its latest innovative products to industry leaders at Productronica 2013 and received positive feedback resulting in orders for many of their new capabilities.

Perhaps the most successful product to be showcased at the Productronica was SolderStars new flux measurement system for selective soldering machines. This is a first for process measurement instruments at product level and allows engineers to monitor flux position accuracy during daily benchmarking of machine performance.

Mark Stansfield, managing director at SolderStar Ltd said: Productronica was the perfect place to showcase our latest products. We met with current clients and also welcomed new customers to the stand; all were impressed with our new flux measurement system which incorporates precision sensors and complimentary measurement circuits so that when it is used in conjunction with the companys existing instruments, it allows flux to be easily assessed.

The system has the capability to learn and be programmed to deal with any measurement changes resulting in the flux chemistry used. The material we use in the sensor heads are all titanium or high temperature thermoplastics, this results in a high quality unit which will stand the rigours of production life. It is these details that really caught the attention of customers at the show, resulting in an enquiry book which we are proud of.

A major problem of designing a system to measure flux is making the sensor construction suitable for daily use in the production environment, coupled with differing performance of flux models available. SolderStars flux measurement system does this with ease and has been specifically designed for this.

The flux measurement system has been added to the mini-wave selective soldering machines. The product provides a ten-fold improvement in measurement accuracy compared with thermocouple based systems. The product uses specially designed sensors to allow measurement of X and Y speed, contact time for both single or dual nozzle machines plus all key temperature parameters.