Quick Shot

Senior manufacturing engineer Joe Romano is shown using an automated Manncorp 7722FV pick-and-place machine to assemble printed circuit boards (PCB’s) for the solid-state Pockels-cell driver. In 15 minutes, this machine can assemble a circuit board that would normally take someone an entire eight-hour shift to assemble by hand-soldering the components. One hundred twenty PCB’s are being built using this machine for this portion of the project.