The Vimpex Production and Production Engineering team have had a busy couple of months with several major milestones achieved in the last few months, we spoke in last month’s Vimpextra about the UV Printer, which has been successful implemented and continuing to make vast improvements in the quality of print and number of misprints.
Also, in October we upgraded our SMT oven to the new Heller 1707 MK7 Reflow Oven, a state-of-the-art oven which further offers us enhanced reliability and, with the Addition of more heating zones and a specific cooling zone, better quality control of our heating reflow process. This upgrade has also offered us newer energy saving designs that optimize the reflow parameters to lower power consumption and faster change over times when switching between products. This new upgrade is particularly important when manufacturing our range of Visual notification products (VIDs and VADs).
The new SMT oven is not the only change being made in preparation for the launch of our Identifire Pro range of Notification devices. Our production facility has undergone a redesign to help Identifire Pro flow through Production seamlessly to help the products be available on short lead times. With a test facility built in house by our Engineering team we have been able to combine the testing of Sound and light tests into one simple test to reduce testing times whilst ensuring products are manufactured to the highest level that our customers have come to expect from Vimpex.
In our final update from Production, we have successfully brought in house the manufacture of our Smart+Guard PCB. This is a landmark achievement for Vimpex as this was the last remaining outsourced PCB as we continue to evolve as an excellent manufacture of Notification Alarm Devices and other ancillary devices.
“The last few months have really shown the desire and hunger we have to become a world class independent manufacturer of fire alarm products”
Matthew Bramham
Product Manager