Nordson's SQ3000M2 AOI & Metrology System Takes Home the Top Prize—the SbS Excellence Prime Award—for its Contribution to the Electronics-Assembly Industry

SHENZHEN—7 Nov 2024—ACT International announced the winners of the 18th Step-by-Step Excellence Awards program at NEPCON Asia earlier today.

Sunny Xue, Technical Chair of the 18th SbS Excellence Awards Judging committee, and Senior Consultant to Step-by-Step New Technologies (SbSTM) magazine, announced the results. The awards program honors products among the nominated entries that will significantly contribute to the electronics-assembly industry as judged by a panel of well-known experts and dedicated SbSTM magazine readers.

Highlighting the announcements, Xue awarded the SbS Excellence Prime Award to Nordson's new version of its SQ3000M2 AOI & Metrology System for inspecting high density, double-sided PCB assemblies. The inspection system attained the highest overall score of all the entries judged, across all product categories.

The SbS Excellence Gold Award was presented to ITW EAE’s Edison II ACT, PEMTRON’s D2 (Dual Lane & Dual Head), ViscoTec’s preeflow® eco-PEN XS 180 microdispenser, Nuobei electromechanical’s NB168, Unicomp Technology’s High-speed Inline Automated X-Ray 3D-CT Inspection System (AXI) LX9200, Keysight Technologies’s E9988GL Keysight i3070 series 7i in-line high density ICT system, and VTTECH’s Fully Automatic Online BGA Ball Placement System.

In addition, Xue awarded SbS Chinese Achievement Awards to the NB168 from Nuobei electromechanical and to the High-speed Inline Automated X-Ray 3D-CT Inspection System (AXI) LX9200 from Unicomp Technology. These two products attained the highest overall scores among all entries submitted by Chinese companies.

The judging panel also selected D2 (Dual Lane & Dual Head) as the most innovative product entered and awarded it the SbS Innovation Award.

Furthermore, Lily Hu, editor-in-chief of SbSTM magazine, announced that the winner of this year's SbS Editor's Choice Award is the Adhesive Vitralit® UC 1633 from Panacol. The SbS Internet Choice Award was also announced. SbSTM readers and professionals from the whole country voted online selecting Fully Automatic Online BGA Ball Placement System from VTTECH.

The Excellence Awards program is a highly influential international accreditation program for the electronics-assembly industry in China with participation and support from both international and domestic suppliers serving the industry with the winners being judged by technical experts in the field, senior executives from the downstream industry, and dedicated SbSTM readers.

The Excellence Awards program is a highly influential international, accreditation-awards program for China's electronics assembly industry. Over the last 18 years, the Excellence (née VISION) Awards program has acknowledged the outstanding products and processes that have enabled China's electronics-assembly industry to build better, more reliable products. Through the Excellence Awards program, ACT International has rewarded these truly visionary products and processes. This year’s entered products were judged on their innovativeness and their contribution in helping the downstream industry to reduce costs, improve product quality, increase production efficiencies, and enhance product reliability. In addition, the judging committee awarded points to entries that ensure worker safety, protect the environment, as well as on the entries’ expected overall impact on the industry.

The judging committee selects the winners of the SbS Excellence Prime Award, the Excellence Gold Award, the SbS Excellence Awards, the SbS Innovation Award, and the SbS Chinese Achievement Awards. SbSTM's editor-in-chief picked the SbS Editor's Choice Award winner, and online readers selected the SbS Internet Choice Award winner.

This year was the fifth year of using an electronic voting system to provide a broader involvement of qualified experts and companies to participate in the Excellence Awards program.

Any product or process that is used in the assembly and testing of the assembly of electronic products may be nominated for an award. Eligible products for this year’s program included processes, materials, equipment, software, and management services that were introduced into the China market between 1 September 2023 and 31 August 2024.

ACT International provides proven access for marketers to China’s hi-tech markets through advertising, content marketing, and events. ACT’s trusted brands serve more than 300,000 professionals in the fields of electronics assembly (Step by Step), machine vision (Vision Systems Design China), laser/photonics (Laser Focus World China), RF/microwave (Microwave Journal China), contamination control (CleanRooms China), and semiconductors (Compound Semiconductor China and Silicon Semiconductor China). 

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With more than 26 years of service, ACT continues to be a trusted medium for marketing investment into China. 

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