National Electronics Week 2009 Exhibition

WPS has significant contracts via the Highways Agency with UK manufacturers of traffic lights, motorway and roadside signage which involve handling in excess of 20 million LEDS per year. To fulfil these contracts the company has invested in equipment to mount both leaded and surface mount LEDs, most recently increasing its processing capacity of through-hole LEDs to 30,000 components per hour. The new equipment allows axial LEDs to be mounted at any angle on the board, offering great flexibility to LED light system designers. The company has also invested in additional premises to accommodate its existing and new surface mount equipment, increasing its capacity to over 150,000 component placements per hour as well as improving its capabilities in terms of accuracy in placing fine-pitch devices. Comments Sales Director, Nick Jones: “We have experience in placing all types of surface mount LED packages including high power/high brightness devices onto a variety of exotic PCBs. We have full test and burn-in facilities to complement our assembly lines, and our technical staff are pleased to assist in the design stage of any new product to ensure that it is optimised for manufacturing to keep costs to a minimum.”