BARCELONA--()--Automation Engineering Incorporated (AEi), a global supplier of high precision automation systems, demonstrates how its CMAT (Camera Module Align, Assembly, and Test) flexible automation platform speeds time to market for ultra-small format mobile phone cameras at Mobile World Congress 2010. AEi developed CMAT to support customers’ alignment, testing and assembly of digital camera modules and sensors. Leading manufacturers use CMAT as a common platform for both new product development and full-scale production deployment. With its five degree of freedom active alignment capability, AEi’s CMAT produces ultra-small format cameras with sensor resolutions up to 16 megapixels. Learn more about CMAT in booth 1J32, Hall 1 at Mobile World Congress, February 15-18, Fira de Barcelona, Barcelona Spain.
According to AEi Chief Operating Officer Justin Roe, “Until recently, the limiting factor to better mobile phone camera quality was the number of light sensitive cells on an image sensor – otherwise known as the pixel count. Now, with higher pixel count CMOS sensors and advanced mobile phone control logic and software, the gating factor for improving mobile camera images is the assembly process. To efficiently produce high-quality ultra-small format mobile phone cameras, alignment is critical to within just a few microns of the focal plane. CMAT optimizes the alignment and assembly of ultra-small format mobile phone cameras for every single sensor-lens pair depending on its particular optical characteristics using AEi’s advanced active alignment algorithms.
“Additionally, many customers are using CMAT stations in new product development to concurrently create new products and develop manufacturing processes -- increasing product performance and lowering cost. They can then quickly transfer the control sequence logic and fixturing used in development across additional CMAT stations for camera module production ramp up – even if production is in another facility on the other side of the world,” concluded Roe.
About AEi
AEi is a leading supplier of high-precision, flexible automation systems across the optoelectronics, medical devices, consumer products, mobile phones, aerospace & defense, and other worldwide markets. AEi provides comprehensive design for manufacturing, process development, and pre-production build services, in addition to complete turnkey automated manufacturing stations and lines. For more information on AEi’s precision automation systems, visit http://www.aeiboston.com.
Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
Delicious
Reddit
StumbleUpon
Digg
MySpace
Newsvine
Google Bookmark
Yahoo! Bookmark
Mixx
Propeller
Wikio
Email
Email
