Over the last 11 years, Vision Awards has acknowledged the outstanding products and processes that have enabled China's electronics-assembly industry to build better, more reliable products. Through the VISION Awards program, we have rewarded these truly visionary products and processes with VISION Awards.

Again, ACT International is administering the VISION Awards program—the only international, accreditation-awards program for China's electronics assembly industry.

Any product or process that is used in the assembly and testing of electronic products incorporating SMT technologies may be nominated for an award. Entries may include any process, material, equipment, software, or management service that was introduced into the China market between 1 Jan 2017 and 28 Feb 2018.

This year, the VISION Awards judges will present awards to the top entries that score the most points regardless of the entry's product category. The judges will award VISION Awards and VA Excellence Awards to the entries that have significantly contributed to the industry. Furthermore, the judges will award the VA Prime Award to the product or process that they deem as the best of all the entries nominated.

The judges will also award two VA Chinese Achievement Awards to the entries from China-based nominees that have significantly contributed to the industry.

As in previous years, the judging panel comprises assembly-industry experts and downstream users of the entries nominated.  Because of the composition of the judging panel, a VISION Award is highly sought after and proudly displayed by the winners.

The judges will assess all the nominated entries as follows:

SHANGHAI—24 April 2018—SMT China announced the winners of the 12th SMT China VISION Awards program at NEPCON China earlier today.

Adonis Mak, chairman of the SMT China VISION Awards program, presented VISION Awards and VA Excellence Awards and Innovation Award and Editor's Choice Award to products launched in 2017 that will significantly contribute to the SMT-assembly industry as judged by a panel of well-known SMT experts and dedicated SMT China readers.

In addition, Mak presented Chinese Achievement Awards to i-Stock ‖ PLUS of i-Stock and Smart AI Zhuhai ZhiXin Automation Technology whose products attained the highest overall scores among all entries submitted by Chinese companies.

He also presented The VA Prime Award to ASM Assembly Systems for its ASM Command Center, which attained the highest overall score from all entries in all the different product categories judged.

The SMT China VISION Awards was initiated in 2007 to recognize as benchmarks of excellence significant products within the SMT-assembly industry. The 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, points were also awarded to entries that ensure worker safety, protect the environment, and their expected overall impact on the industry.

The Vision Awards program is the only international accreditation for the SMT-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 SMT China readers.