History of Yamaha SMT Business
Starting as the IM Business Unit established in the 1980s, Yamaha SMT has continued to evolve with its customers.
1982
1983
Representative event: CASIO releases the 1st generation of G-Shock; A home use video game console, the Nintendo Family Computer, goes on sale in Japan
1984
1987
YM4600S
1988
1990
1992
A full vision mounter that adopts strobe lighting and a high-speed vision system
1993
Featuring both the laser sensor and the vision system for the first time in the world, the YVL80 was renowned as an innovative multi-purpose mounter.
Representative event: Nichia develops a blue LED
1994
Representative event: SONY Home video game console PlayStation goes on sale
1995
Representative event: The world's first digital camera with an LCD monitor, QV-10, goes on sale; Microsoft Windows 95 released
1996
As compilations of previous technologies, the products achieved even higher efficiency through the full vision technology for recognizing all components on a multi-vision camera. The YV100 and YVL88, which were referred to as the KM series, were widely accepted by the market and Yamaha established its position as a top manufacturer of medium-speed mounters by that time.
1997
Representative event: Toyota-Prius, the world's first mass produced hybrid car, goes on sale
1998
Representative event: Apple releases a desktop computer with integrated display, iMac G3
1999
The YV100X and 88X proposed the "High-speed mounter" concept to the market where large rotary mounters were the mainstream. This module concept is still the driving force for Yamaha mounters to make advances today.
Representative event: SONY releases the entertainment robot AIBO
2000
Yamaha develops a full-vision (image recognition) type solder paste printer, the YVP, that seamlessly integrates with its surface mounters.
Representative event: The Year 2000 problem occurs
2001
Starting to install Microsoft Windows, the product adopted the Multiple Accuracy Compensation System (MACS), which is the foundation of the current Yamaha mounter quality. The YV100Xg established Yamaha market position as high-speed, high-quality, compact, and low-price modular mounters, which led to the survival and subsequent rapid progress in Yamaha's SMT business.
Representative event: iPod (1st generation) goes on sale
The hybrid placer i-CUBE was developed as a mounter for hybrid mounting of bare chips, flip chips, and other IC chips in addition to surface-mounted components (SMD) to assemble parts for a quartz oscillator, SAW filter, and parts for mobile phone as well as devices such as IC packages. The i-CUBE is a popular product to the present day.
2002
The Multiple Accuracy Compensation System (MACS) developed for compensation of the component mounting acuracy of a mounter was applied to printers to realize high quality printing. The product was a major hit and drove rapid growth in Yamaha printers.
2003
Production support software (optional function group called "IT Option") that provides improved operating rates and enhanced quality control, in addition to drawing out the performance of the equipment itself, was developed to support production on a mounting line.
Full Line SMT, SMD PICk And Place Reflow Oven Machine Stencil Printer For Print PCB, Machine PICk And Place, PICk And Place Machine AutomatIC, Desktop PCB Router Machine For Cutting, New AutomatIC Lead Cutting Machine PCB Cutter, Semi-Auto PCB V-Cut, Fully AutomatIC PCB V-Cut Machine, PCB Cutter/Cutting Machine, PCB/PCBA V-Cut Machine, PCB Separator, PCB Separator Machine
1980-1989 Representative event:
Seeing robots as being the future as a result of a visit to the U.S.
Exhibits at exhibitions as IM Technology Group; The Division prompted to produce mounters
The IM Business Unit established ; starts supplying mounter as OEM
Release mouners under own brand
Product
The 1st unit of the mounter with the latest technology "visual recognition technology" was delivered
1990-1999 Representative event:
Annual sales reach 5 billion yen
Full vision mounter YV112 goes on sale
Product
Laser sensor & vision system mounter YVL80 goes on sale
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Annual sales reach 10 billion yen
Multi-vision mounters YV100 and YVL88 go on sale
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Compact modular concept mounter YV100X and 88X go on sale
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2000-2004Representative event:
Yamaha's first solder paste printer YVP goes on sale
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The YV100Xg mounter goes on sale
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Yamaha i-CUBE, a multi-purpose, high precision hybrid placer, goes on sale
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Cumulative shipments reach 10,000 units
The solder paste printer YVPXg goes on sale
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The modular high-speed mounter YG series was launched
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IT Option goes on sale; Support for automatic set-up
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