The demands for further miniaturization and higher production rates represent considerable challenges for electronics production. These demands can only be fulfilled by the application of advanced manufacturing machines. In particular, placement machines have to fulfil the most demanding requirements regarding operation accuracy and speed. Their performance is largely determined by the thermal and dynamic behaviour of the machine. Using simulation tools, this behaviour can be studied and limitations overcome by optimization of both design and machine control. This can be achieved by the appropriate application of numerical simulation tools such as the finite element method, multi-body simulation and computational fluid dynamics. A virtual prototype model of a placement machine has been developed to study the overlay of the thermal and dynamical aspects.
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