Yamaha Motor IM Europe appoints Elas Kft. as partner for Hungary

Yamaha Motor IM Europe and Elas Kft, a sales and service company based Budapest Hungary, are pleased to announce an equipment partnership for Hungary.

Yamaha Motor IM has an extensive range of Electronics production equipment from Printing, Dispensing, through mounting to Inspection systems. Their appointment of Elas for Hungary, is part of a broader European initiative to continue to build the Yamaha brand name, and installed base throughout Europe, to the same extent, as its dominant presence in Asia.

Patrick de Witt, General Manager of Yamaha Motor IM Europe GmbH stated, “We are very pleased to appoint a company with the success in capital equipment sales and after sales support, of Elas, and look forward to our mutual success, in supporting existing customers and reaching new ones. We very much believe in the strength of the Yamaha Total Line solution and want the chance to prove and develop this with prospective customers in Hungary”. István Hámornik Managing Director Elas kft, was similarly pleased saying, “We adapted the globalized technology and equipment of global manufacturers to local conditions and we offer high level support.

Our goal is that Elas to be a high level total solution provider for the manufacturing and test requirements to our customers locally by transfer the knowledge of our principals. We are delighted to add the Yamaha total solution solutions to our product portfolio. The Yamaha proposition is a perfect complement to our existing product range and will enable us to offer both individual machines and complete line solutions with specifications that meet the technical and commercial needs of our customers. We always emphasise our strengths in after sales support and want to extend our after sales support programmes to prospective and current Yamaha customers”.

About Yamaha’s Total-Line Solutions:

Today, Yamaha is the only true total-line supplier offering a complete set of inline equipment, founded on a common hardware platform and running on a unified software environment. Other companies claiming to offer total-line solutions are using equipment from different suppliers and cannot offer true software integration.

Yamaha’s state-of-the-art total line solutions comprise:

• Yamaha screen printers

• Yamaha high-speed dispensing solutions

• Yamaha surface mounters

• Yamaha inspection systems

• Yamaha semiconductor assembly solutions

• Yamaha final assembly solutions

All Yamaha solutions operate on the single unified software platform Yamaha Y-Fact, which offers major benefits for customers such as:

• Increased efficiency

• Faster and more accurate programming

• Much faster learning curve for operators

• One graphical user interface on all Yamaha machines

About Yamaha Robotics SMT Section

Yamaha Surface Mount Technology (SMT) Section is a subdivision of Yamaha Motor Robotics Business Unit in Yamaha Motor Corporation. Yamaha surface mount equipment is highly acclaimed in the market for their “module concept” that enables them to keep pace with the trend toward smaller and more diverse electric/electronic parts being mounted on circuit boards.

Yamaha SMT Section has created a strong business in the surface mount industry that enables design and engineering, manufacture, sales and service to be conducted in one comprehensive system. Furthermore, the Company has used its core technologies in the areas of servo-motor control and image recognition technology for vision (camera) systems to develop solder paste printers, 3D solder paste inspection, 3D PCB inspection machines, flip chip hybrid placers and dispensers. This allows Yamaha SMT Section to offer a full line of machines for electric/electronic parts mounting and propose optimum production-line makeup to answer the diversifying needs of today’s manufacturers.

Yamaha SMT Section has sales and service offices in Japan, China, Southeast Asia, Europe and North America provide a truly global sales and service network that will safeguard best in class on-site sales & service support for clients.

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