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SDEA SOLDERING DEVICE

The SDEA clip soldering system has been developed to
support the production of high volumes of glass, guaranteeing
process control and lower overheads, the aim being to
achieve 0 PPM for unsoldered glass shipped to customers.
GTI: What is your top-per-
PVB film. The operator,
In the feasibility and development phases of this new system,
forming product?
in fact, first of all takes the
various systems were analysed and tested (laser, hot air,
I would say ‘wiring’ for PVB and positions it on the
induction) and in the end the choice fell on the current
embedding wires into PVB. table to manually assemble
SDEA two electrode system with dual energy control.
Wiring came about after the first Bus Bar; the PVB
A variety of innovations and ideas have been incorporated
our global patent regarding is then placed on another
in this machine in order to achieve the objective of ensuring
a high level of control of the process while maintaining
the automatic application tray as first storage, and
remarkably easy management and maintenance.
SDEA Key features of BB, developed in 2009 is then removed by a sec-
in response to the needs ond operator who loads it
The key features of SDEA clip soldering system are as
follows:
and demands of our cli- onto the wiring roll; after
ents to improve the manual this, the operator cuts the
s %XCELLENT SOLDERING QUALITY
s 4OTAL PROCESS CONTROL
application in use at that wires, removing the PVB
s ,OW MAINTENANCE COSTS
time, which created waste film and placing it onto an-
and hot spots on assem- other tray. A third operator
s ,OW COSTS WHEN UPGRADING TO A NEW MODEL
s 3IMPLE MECHANICAL MAINTENANCE
bled windscreens. Our au- takes the PVB and seals the
tomatic application results second Bus Bar and the
s 3YSTEM MANAGEMENT USING 7INDOWS ENVIRONMENT WITH
- recipe management
in a considerable increase connections. Considering
- alarm management
in both production quality the considerable amount of
and quantity, as well as im- manual work involved, it’s
portant savings in variable easy to see that mistakes
and fixed costs. can occur due to a number
and we have never stopped When we started to go into of factors, among which
working on improvements the white rooms where decrease in operator con-
and upgrades since this heated PVB is produced, centration during repeated
machine was introduced to we realized that the pro- manual operations.
the market. Being able to cess required a consider- Therefore, thanks to our
develop our designs con- able number of personnel intense R&D activities, our
stantly enables us to create and space due to the con- company has automated
standard products in fact. tinuous handling of the the entire process with the

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