ASMPT SMT Solutions is the global technology and market leader for solutions in the electronics manufacturing field. The company develops and sells machines, software and services for SMT production applications and helps electronics manufacturers make sustainable improvements with regard to their productivity, resilience, and return on investment.
With its holistic approach to the intelligent factory, ASMPT combines modern production technologies with data-based process optimization to create fully connected high-performance SMT lines.
Regional Centers of Competence and a strong sales and service network ensure that customers all over the world have easy access to technical expertise and practice-oriented support,
What are the main areas of activity of the company?
The portfolio of ASMPT SMT Solutions comprises integrated solutions for intelligent SMT manufacturing. The hardware portfolio includes SIPLACE placement platforms, DEK stencil printers, and the Process Lens SPI system.
The hardware portfolio is complemented by a comprehensive software portfolio with applications for the machine, line, shop floor and factory levels. The goal is to network people, production equipment, material flows and processes with the help of open interfaces.
Based on the structured utilization of production data, electronics manufacturers can transparently plan, monitor and continuously optimize their production workflows, which allows them to sustainably improve the productivity, the process stability and the degree of automation of their operations.
What’s the news about new products/services?
The current highlight is the SIPLACE V placement platform, which has been newly developed from the ground up. Under real production conditions, it delivers performance improvements of up to 30 percent in key electronics industries.
Crucially, the improvements are achieved not only under benchmark conditions but in real-life production environments with their complex circuit boards, lots of variants, frequent product changeovers, and demanding quality requirements.
Depending on the configuration, the platform achieves a placement performance of up to 105,000 components per hour with a precision of 25 µm @ 3 σ, thus setting new standards for high-speed electronics manufacturing applications.
With the SIPLACE V, ASMPT combines for the first time maximum productivity with the outstanding process quality and flexibility needed for modern high-mix production applications in a single platform. Today’s electronics manufacturers must be able to efficiently and reliably process a very broad spectrum of components ranging from super-small 016008M chips to large odd-shaped components (OSCs) and powerful ball grid arrays (BGAs) for applications in areas such as AI and high-performance computing.
3D coplanarity measurement with a sample BGA measuring 150 by 150 millimeters: Based on laser-based measurements of the height of the individual leads and balls under the BGA, the system determines the component’s coplanarity prior to its placement with exceptional precision.
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It is precisely this combination of miniaturization, component diversity and increasing component density that makes powerful and flexible placement solutions like the SIPLACE V a crucial factor in today’s competitive world. In a footprint of only 1.1 by 2.4 meters, the platform combines high acceleration forces, highly efficient linear drives and high-resolution image processing with integrated process and quality functions. In addition, its Ethernet-based architecture reduces latencies, increases data throughput and creates the basis for further automation steps as well as AI-supported analytics and quality applications.
[Link to SIPLACE V landing page]
What are the ranges of products/services?
While modern placement platforms like the new SIPLACE form the technological basis of the SMT line, software solutions from ASMPT make it possible to capture production data, process it in a targeted manner, and put it to use in intelligent ways.
They support central electronics manufacturing processes ranging from efficient staff deployment to dynamic production planning to factory-wide optimized material flow automation. They also enable analytical and optimization functions along the entire SMT line. These solutions are supplemented by AI-supported applications that make the daily work of operators and service teams significantly easier.
ASMPT’s SMT Analytics software, for example, enables data-based in-depth analyses of the entire SMT process. The software looks at the process data from various machines and process steps to identify the causes of quality and performance deviations and highlight potential improvements.
[Link to SMT Analytics landing page]
In combination with powerful hardware, this creates a holistic approach to electronics manufacturing that sustainably improves productivity, process stability, and efficiency.
What is the state of the market in which you are currently active?
The electronics industry is characterized by a high level of technological dynamism. We are seeing an increasing willingness to invest in modern production equipment, especially in areas where increases in computing power, the digital transformation and electrification are placing new demands on electronic systems.
Applications in areas such as AI servers, high-performance computing and network infrastructure, as well as automotive and industrial electronics, are experiencing particularly strong growth at this time.
These applications place high demands on precision, process stability and production performance. At the same time, component densities on modern circuit boards as well as the bandwidth of the components to be processed are steadily increasing.
What can you tell us about market trends?
A central trend in electronics manufacturing is the increasing digital transformation and networking of production operations. Modern SMT lines generate large amounts of process data that can be used to analyze, optimize and control the manufacturing processes with more precision, which in turn opens the door to more opportunities for data-based process control and increasingly intelligent automation.
Since manufacturers must also cope with the rising proliferation of options and shorter innovation cycles, today’s production systems must deliver high performance as well as speed adaptability to new products and processes.
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What are the most innovative products/services marketed?
As already mentioned, the new SIPLACE V is one of ASMPT’s most innovative solutions. It marks the beginning of a new era in SMT assembly by combining high placement performance with outstanding process quality.
Thanks to the individually rotating nozzle segments of the placement heads, which are unique in the industry, each component is individually checked along the entire assembly chain – from pickup to placement – and precisely readjusted or rejected.
In addition, the optional 3D Coplanarity Modules makes it possible to inspect the coplanarity of components with great precision. This ensures that even demanding components such as BGA with their high connector density can be placed reliably and securely.
With features like these, the SIPLACE V sets new standards in productivity, flexibility and quality for today’s and tomorrow’s placement solutions.
What estimations do you have for the beginning of 2026?
We expect the innovation momentum in electronics manufacturing to continue on a high level in 2026. Applications around AI infrastructure, data centers and data-intensive networks will keep driving the demand for powerful electronic systems.
At the same time, new growth areas are emerging, such as medical technology and digital health applications ranging from wearable devices and networked sensor systems to technologies for areas like prevention, personalized medicine, and longevity-oriented applications.
These developments lead to ever more powerful and increasingly complex and miniaturized systems, which in turn will raise the demand for more efficient, automated and data-based manufacturing concepts. Accordingly, innovations for intelligent manufacturing operations will increasingly gain in importance.
For more information about the production portfolio of ASMPT SMT Solutions, visit www.smt.asmpt.com.
