Smart Factory
Complete solutions for industrial automation and smart manufacturing.
Panasonic offers a comprehensive portfolio of equipment and software to optimize production processes, increasing your factory's efficiency, quality, and productivity.
We serve SMT (Surface Mount Technology), THT (Through-Hole Technology), FATP (Final Assembly, Test, and Pack), and other industrial process applications with integrated solutions that connect machines, data, and people in a Smart Factory environment.
AI and Autonomous Factory
Unlock the Future in Manufacturing
Re-live our AI, Autonomous Factory stream as we unveil innovative solutions and case studies from our team, our partners, and our clients. Manufacturers are now accelerating their efforts in response to supply chain disruptions, workforce shortages, and energy costs rise.
Connect to the Factory of Tomorrow
Your Smart Factory. Our SMT and software solutions.
Made in Japan
World-leading Panasonic technology with over 100 years of engineering know-how as a manufacturer, SMT equipment and solutions provider.
In-house created software
Best-in-class Panasonic Software created in-house as a tailor-made dynamic solution to your manufacturing challenges.
Trusted Service & Maintenance
Trusted Panasonic Service offering many different services from spare parts, individual maintenance and refurbishment programs of SMT equipment all over the world. Providing first-class support, machine & software training.
Placement Machines
Best-in-class placement solutions, from entry-level to complex requirements, for any mix, any volume, and smart manufacturing at any time.
Stencil Printers
High-quality, reliable screen-printing technology for producing any assembly.
NPM-GP/L
Screen printer with various automation functions, line solutions, and other features to maintain stable high quality printing Automation of model changeover and other operations during production, together with appropriately timed maintenance based on equipment condition monitoring, contributes to increased production time. In addition, various functions to realize high quality printing, stable printing by responding to 5M changes, and M2M (Machine to Machine) with solder inspection equipment reduce defect losses.
SPV
Printer with built-in PCB sorting function to realize ultra-high speed tact time Ultra high-speed tact: This screen-printer achieves a cycle time of 10 seconds. Built-in PCB sorting function enables the machine to accommodate various line layouts of customers.
SPV-DC
Compact screen printer with high efficiency production and dual lanes Highly efficient production and dual lanes are realized in a compact size, providing the best functionality for your production configuration.
FATP & UA3P
NPM-VF
In final assembly, test & pack areas manual work and processes are often still in use. In those areas high failure rates and a quite low level of traceability are weak points in several production floors. Our solutions help to get full control of the production floor including all non-Panasonic systems.
Software for Manufacturing
Adaptive Process Control
Feedback control (APC-FB) This function statistically processes the solder measurement results from the 3D solder inspection device and sends feedback to the printer to correct the positional displacement of land and solder to the correct position. This stabilizes the printing quality automatically since the feedback value can be set arbitrarily utilizing Panasonic’s know-how accumulated over many years.
iLNB: line management system
In order to support productivity, quality control, and process methods in mounting production, it is necessary to control and manage the entire line as a whole, including not only Panasonic equipment but also equipment from other manufacturers. iLNB achieves this through various communication methods with equipment from other manufacturers.
Panasonic Connect and SMT Manufacturing
Panasonic is a global leading company offering turnkey solutions for SMT manufacturing. Its portfolio of best-in-class hardware includes laser marking, screen printing, SMT/THT/PTH equipment, odd form component placement as well as FATP solutions. Everything an organisation might need for SMT Manufacturing, SMT Pick and Place and SMT Assembly.
Panasonic Connect and Factory Automation Software
In addition to our SMT equipment, Panasonic also provides software for factory and production line automation. Our specialist solutions can provide overall optimization and modular solutions for production planning & analysis, design & simulation, material management, product changeover and traceability.
Our expertise is based on more than 100 years of manufacturing and engineering experience creating our own products. As a result, manufacturing is at the heart of everything we do and offer trusted technology and innovation as your partner for a connected future.
The connected and autonomous factory
The autonomous factory of the future hinges on smart, interconnected systems. Panasonic is at the forefront of this revolution, offering SMT Equipment and process management solutions that streamline every aspect of production, from material arrival to final assembly.
Our software and enterprise integration services are designed to enhance operational efficiency, productivity, and traceability throughout your supply chain – all backed by our world-class service and maintenance network.
Keys to Digitalisation
The connected and autonomous factory
In order to build up an autonomous factory, each process and production step needs to be automated and planned wisely. All layers of the factory need to be connected and harmonized to improve operational equipment efficiency, productivity, and achieve overall traceability across the supply chain. Production planning is the first step: From incoming material to SMT process management and process traceability the production process needs to be coordinated and analyzed. Enterprise integration plays an important role in the planning process. Last, maintenance management is an essential part of the connected factory.
Smart Factory in action
Flexible and modular SMT machines for any mix, any volume.
SMT Equipment: Pick and Place Machines
As well as a low-maintenance, robust machine, the European market requires a high degree of flexibility in manufacturing to implement a wide range of applications. Depending on the configuration, these range from very small batches which require a high degree of flexibility to high placement capacities.
SMT Equipment: Feeding Solutions
Highly flexible thanks to intelligent feeder systems Panasonic’s placement systems can accommodate up to 160 feeders depending on machine type, production order and the tape widths used. Thanks to their robust construction, they are designed for use over long periods. Feeders can be mounted at different positions on the machine.
Software Solutions
The collection and analysis of data is based on software solutions that we use in our own production plants worldwide. A variety of solutions are available to enable intelligent partial planning of electronics production right up to the complete control of all manufacturing processes, including the preceding and subsequent steps.
Panasonic Factory Automation Services
Technical support for Panasonic and partner equipment, general maintenance, and training, with the goal of making the best use of the equipment in your process.
Services for equipment and processes
Panasonic offers services, spare parts, and customized solutions to meet your needs. With headquarters in São José dos Campos – SP and Manaus – AM, we provide complete training infrastructure and a parts inventory.
Equipment training
We offer training on our solutions at our training centers in São José dos Campos and Manaus.
Panasonic Campus Munich
Experience the latest Smart Factory Solutions
Experience the latest Smart Factory Solutions and see our SMT machines in action.
On more than 6000 sqm, we showcase a variety of supply chain solutions to touch and feel. The video series "Creating the Supply Chain of Tomorrow" highlights the experience and solutions. From smart factory and manufacturing, logistics and warehousing as well as retail, together we create the future of supply chain.
Discover our technical centers, laboratories, and service facilities that provide a unique insight into the customized world of Panasonic.
Our Partners
Our Smart Factory team cooperates closely with partners around the world to benefit customers in many regions.
Your SMT Manufacturing Q&A
In SMT (Surface Mount Technology) manufacturing, electronic components such as resistors, capacitors, integrated circuits are mounted directly onto the surface of the PCB, as opposed to older methods like THT (Through-hole technology) where components are not placed but inserted into holes on the board. Panasonic offers both SMT machines and THT machines for production.
Panasonic offers a wide range of SMT Equipment for electronics manufacturing, including SMT Manufacturing machines, SMT Pick and Place and SMT Assembly. In more detail, we offer:
Stencil Printing: Applying solder paste onto the PCB through a stencil, defining the areas where components will be placed.
Component Pick and Place: Automated machines pick up components from reels or trays and precisely place them onto the solder paste on the PCB according to the design.
Insertion Machines: Panasonic’s insertion platforms for radial and axial processes with high density and high speed. PTH / THT (Pin Through Hole / Through Hole Technology) solutions.
Final assembly, test & packaging (FATP): Panasonic Guided Manual Assembly supports production processes where manual placement is still in use to reduce errors and improve efficiency.
Software Solutions: Every production expansion or capacity adjustment should be based on data. For this purpose, it is not only necessary to gather data, but also to process it. To this end, we offer appropriate software solutions.
The NPM G Series is a new platform that brings together four technologies into a single offering that minimizes the reliance on the traditional 5M (Human, Machine, Material, Method, Measurement) method that many production sites still use. The NPM G Series incorporates:
NPM-GP/L screen printing machine with automatic printing process functions can automatically implement production line changes.
NPM-GH modular mounter with industry-leading mounting accuracy.
Auto Setting Feeder (ASF) for the automatic supply of mounting components, an industry first. The ASF can automatically peel back the cover on surface-mount component tape between 4mm and 104mm wide.
APC-5M system for Adaptive Process Control (APC) tracks the correct placement of components based on the solder printing position and transfers feedback to the stencil printer in case of misalignment.
Please find our software overview here: Smart Factory - SMT, THT, FATP and beyond | Panasonic Connect
Yes, in our Smart Factory Training and Demo center in Munich, equipment can be demonstrated. Please register here: Visit Campus Munich | Panasonic Connect
The G-Series combines AI and automation to immediately respond to customer supply and demand changes through continuous, autonomous updates and offers flexibility and customisable options to address production needs, to make autonomous factories a reality.
The NPM-X series from Panasonic fulfils the requirements of current and future high mix/low volume placement concepts. Panasonic’s NPM-X series provides numerous state-of-the-art options for these requirement profiles, which make tailor-made solutions for efficient placement possible: be it a single or double lane transport system, one, two or four placement heads with up to 16 vacuum nozzles, a wide variety of feeder and tray systems, and standard and special nozzles. Various options are available to users for perfect prototyping, highly flexible small series production or cycle time-optimized high-performance placement.
The range of services is rounded off by state-of-the-art functions for the automated optimization of the placement process and a line control system with the iLNB line computer which can be used for the entire line.
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