EMS@C-LEVEL
As Forbes, Entrepreneur, Fast Company and SCOOP writer, Philip Stoten, continues to talk to EMS (Electronic Manufacturing Services) executives he learns more about their individual and collective experiences and their expectations for their own businesses and for the entire electronic manufacturing industry.
EMS@C-LEVEL
Adding The Forth Dimension: Game Changing Thermal Profiling Technology from iRaptor Founder Vitor Barros
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I explore machine behavior with our special guest, Vitor Barros from iRaptor, as he introduces us to their revolutionary 4D profiler. This episode provides insights into how temperature and vibration mapping are transforming quality control and equipment maintenance on production floors. Vitor walks us through the meticulous development process of this Portuguese-made, handcrafted technology and shares fascinating discoveries about how seemingly minor factors like fan vibrations can significantly impact machinery performance and product quality.
We discuss the unique features of the 4D unit, its universal application across equipment beyond just ovens, and the enthusiastic market reception it has garnered. With its user-friendly interface and powerful data insights, this game-changing product not only identifies potential equipment failures before they happen but also sets new standards for traceability and reliability in manufacturing. Lastly, discover how the strategic partnership with Quiptech is propelling iRaptor’s penetration in Mexico and beyond.
EMS@C-Level is hosted by global inspection leaders Koh Young (https://www.kohyoung.com) and Global Electronics Association (https://www.electronics.org)
You can see video versions of all of the EMS@C-Level pods on our YouTube playlist.
Hello, I'm Philip Stoughton. I'm at SMCA Guadalajara 2024, and I'm joined by Vito Barros from iRaptor. Vito, great to see you, great to see you too. Been hearing about this product for some considerable time. It's finally out in the market. It's starting to get traction, and you brought it here to Mexico with the partnership with QuipTech, and you brought it here to Mexico with the partnership with Quiptec. Start by telling me a bit about the development of the product and how it's unique in the market.
Speaker 2The development of the product came by all the team contribution from each other. They had a large experience that we have on this business and this helped creating something unique, so called the 4D unit.
Speaker 1Tell me about the fourth dimension.
Speaker 2All the other units on the market they are two dimension, temperature over time. This one has the parameters inside that they are mapping the interior of the machine and creating or documenting how the machine is behaving from profile to profile. That is the 3D, the vibration, with three Xs, plus and minus. Xyz gives the 4D and it gives something unique to the market because it can measure the vibration with or without the temperature, being the part without the temperature, making this unit completely universal, being able to measure any equipment that is on the production floor, from pick-up places, aois, spis, in-feed conveyors, out-feed conveyors, a compressor, a vacuum machine, wow.
Speaker 1So you could actually use it without it going in the oven if you wanted to, just to do the vibration measurement.
Speaker 2That is the beautiful part of this technology it became universal.
Speaker 1Yeah, and when you look at mapping an oven with the pyrometers, with the regular temperature over time and with the fourth dimension of vibration, you're getting a very big picture, not just for quality control but also for traceability. How has the market responded?
Speaker 2They are responding very positively because it brings an insight of something that was a concern, but nobody had an idea what were the numbers involved around the vibration mixed with temperatures? And nowadays, our customers. They have already a starting point, a baseline where everything is okay and whenever the numbers start to drift, they are able to capture and intervene on the equipment before the equipment crashes.
Speaker 1Yeah, so before it goes out of spec. And have you been surprised, when you started to collect the data, how important that vibration has become and how variable it is?
Speaker 2I'm learning on a daily basis the dynamics of machines, that they are black boxes and where the chain vibration was almost always the guilty one, and I start to realize, together with our customers, that the fan also brings vibration to the products extremely critical. That creates lots of quality issues and those can be caught before creators of quality issues with our technology.
Speaker 1Well, that's what you want. You want to be able to identify the trend and stop it before it, before it goes out of spec. That's the the important part. And the product's made in Portugal. Yes, I call it, this A Portuguese company.
Speaker 2Yes, fully 100% Portuguese. I call it this a handcraft technology product, so built with a lot of concerns and being a unique and differentiated product yeah, and disruptive also.
Speaker 1Yeah, and I know you, Vitor, from yeah, and I know you, vitor, from the past. I know you would have been fanatical in the design and you would have got it absolutely how you wanted before, before going to the market. And it's not just about the hardware, it's about the software as well. It has to be easy to use as well as as well as doing the job.
Speaker 2Oh, it is extremely user-friendly for the, the user, for the persons that they already use to run profiles. This makes their life much easier because the interface is extremely to the highest level of user-friendly in the S, if that word exists.
Speaker 1Yeah, it absolutely does, vito. Thanks for talking to me. Good luck with the product and we'll chat again soon. Thank you, thank you, thank you.