George Babka, Sales General Manager, Yamaha Motor Corp, USA

2017 saw the rise of several standards and protocols to suffice the gap in the SMT Industry regarding Industry 4.0.

Every company wants to take a part of Industry 4.0 as if it was a sole market that one company can satisfy all their needs. Only a few are able to deploy their product line and deliver a satisfactory M2M communication with metrology, guided by the principles of IoT.

Partnerships between SMT core corporations and the other third parties systems are inevitable. Thanks to the development of projects such as ASM's the Hermes standard and Fuji's ELF standard, interconnected digital factories are now a reality.

As we move into 2018 TRI's focus is to cooperate with such projects and deliver leading technologies. Driven by the ever-changing industry, we have prepared higher resolution Inspection for the rising wearable devices, flexible PCBA, and automotive tech.

The high demand for miniaturized devices and chips fuels the need for a reliable SMT Inspection System in which you need to compromise output or quality. However, a balance can be achieved with a correct assessment. At TRI it is paramount to satisfy our customers' requirements to help them maximize their production yield and optimize quality management.