Used SMT equipment market analysis

I. Overview
The used SMT equipment we are talking about is the used SMT equipment. In Europe and the United States, it is customary to call "Used SMTMachines" and generally do not say "SecondHandMachines", Taiwan and Hong Kong are used to call "used SMT equipment". ", in mainland China used to be called "used SMT equipment".
SMT industry after more than 40 years of development, in 40 years, SMT equipment demand and market ownership are increasing at an annual growth rate of 10%-20%. In these 40 years, some SMT factories began to replace the old with new or close down, which has a source of supply of used SMT equipment; at the same time, some SMT companies began to look for used SMT equipment in order to save cost investment, which has a potential market demand. After 30 years of development, used SMT equipment has become an important branch of SMT equipment and is increasingly active in the SMT equipment market as a necessary supplement to the new SMT equipment market.
With the development of the SMT industry, due to the obvious price advantage of used equipment, although the used SMT equipment market is unlikely to become the dominant market, but will certainly increasingly occupy the entire SMT equipment market share.

II. The development of used SMT equipment in the country
After more than 30 years of development, the domestic SMT industry has now become the country with more SMT equipment* in the world. In terms of the nature of enterprises, over the past 30 years, there have been many SMT enterprises from Europe, America, Taiwan and Hong Kong investing in the mainland, and these enterprises are also the main demanders of SMT equipment; at the same time, the number of SMT equipment owned by numerous mainland enterprises and research institutions is increasing day by day, and is estimated to account for about a quarter of the market share. In terms of geographical distribution, the Pearl River Delta region still dominates, followed by the Yangtze River Delta region, and again by various electronic enterprises and research institutions distributed in other provinces in China.
Used SMT equipment in the domestic development has been more than ten years of history, the last decade is also the domestic SMT * for the active decade. It is estimated that the current annual demand for used SMT equipment, including automatic printing machines, dispensing machines, placement machines and reflow soldering and other major equipment in more than 3,000 units, the market amount is estimated at about 500 million. If you look at the number of units traded, used equipment transactions are estimated to account for about one-third of the SMT equipment market share; if you look at the transaction amount, it is estimated that the transaction amount of used equipment will also account for about 15%.
Currently, due to the impact of the global financial crisis, many enterprises are increasingly rational investment, in order to save costs, have begun to examine the evaluation and favor used SMT equipment, which brings new opportunities for the development of the used SMT equipment market.

III. The source of used SMT equipment and supply channels
If the quality of used equipment to be divided, usually from Europe and the United States and Japan equipment is superior, Southeast Asian equipment is the middle class, domestic equipment for the lower class. The reason is simple, Europe and the United States and Japan equipment on the one hand, the use of short time, the mechanical wear and tear of the equipment is small; on the other hand, the maintenance of strict norms, so that the use of equipment in good condition. Although the use of Southeast Asian equipment is not short, but mainly from large enterprises, maintenance is relatively good domestic enterprises, so it is the middle class. Domestic equipment, many cases of 24-hour continuous operation, and generally in order to save costs and do not pay much attention to the regular maintenance required by the equipment. In the case of domestic equipment, the equipment of large enterprises is usually better than the used equipment of small and medium-sized enterprises, which is mainly caused by equipment management.
How does used equipment come about? There are several aspects that form the rich source of used SMT equipment. One is the normal retirement of enterprises, in many large foreign companies, the use of new equipment set for about five years, regardless of the condition of the equipment, all out of the old for the new. Some are the formation of a certain system within the enterprise, due to replace; some are from the finance company loans to buy the machine, to a certain time to the finance company loans to buy new machines and the old machine will be handed over to the finance company to deal with. Second, the company's transformation or multinational relocation, with the professional EMS companies have become an independent branch of increasingly strong, many companies gradually reduce the scale of manufacturing or even eliminate manufacturing links, and focus on higher value-added development and sales links, which will produce surplus SMT equipment; in the multinational relocation, many foreign companies may also eliminate the existing equipment to save a lot of relocation trouble. Although the SMT industry is in a period of development, there are many reasons for the bankruptcy and closure of enterprises to resell or auction SMT equipment every year, which is estimated to account for about 5% of the total number of SMT factories.
Used SMT supply is only three channels, one is through professional used SMT equipment suppliers, the second is directly from the original use of factory acquisition, the third is the original equipment manufacturer or agent of the DEMO (exhibition) machine or refurbished machine. After 20 years of development, used equipment suppliers in the country is estimated to have about 50, mainly concentrated in Shenzhen, Dongguan and other places, a small part in Shanghai, Suzhou around. Really have a history of scale is not much, many are three or five people companies, can provide refurbishment and after-sales service is even less. Because of the special nature of used SMT equipment, after the history of the precipitation, the real supplier with a good reputation is rare. Acquisition from the original factory is a rare thing, if a chance encounter by you, you may be able to greatly save costs, will be cheaper than the equipment bought from second-hand dealers, but you must also be a connoisseur who understands the equipment, otherwise the loss will not be worth it. The original manufacturer or agent of the DEMO (exhibition) machine or refurbished machine, from the quality of the equipment is certainly a good choice, but often the number of small selection of opportunities, and because of the high cost so the price is not expensive.
From the year of the production year of used equipment is mainly concentrated in 11 years to 3 years before the eight years of equipment, such as the current used SMT equipment is mainly concentrated in 2001 to 2019 years of production of equipment. If you are interested in purchasing used SMT equipment, supply channels are still abundant and smooth, as long as you walk more and more to see more evaluation and more comparison, you can definitely buy used SMT equipment to meet your production requirements and what you expect.

IV、Main two main types of equipment on the market at present
1, Printing machines
l MPM: UP2000, UP3000, UP2000HiE, AP HiE
l DEK: 288, ELA, Horizon, Infinity
l FUJI: GP541E, GP641E
l PANASERT: SPPV, SPPG3, SPF, SP22P, SP28P.
2, Dispensing machines
l PANASERT: HDPV, HDPG3, HDF
l FUJI: GL541
l CAM/A LOT: Gemini II
3, Stickers
l PANASERT: MV2C, MV2F, MV2V, MV2VB, MSR, HT121, HT122, MSH3, CM88, CM402, CM602; MPAV, MPAV2, MPAV2B, MPAG2, MPAG3, MMCG3, MSF, MCF, CM20F, CM202, BM
l FUJI: XP1, XP2, QP2, QP3, NXT series
l SIEMENS: S20, S23, S25, S27, HS50, HS60, F5, F5HM, HF
l PHILIPS: FCM2
l SANYO: TCM3000, TCM3500, TCM5000, TIM5000
l UNIVERSAL: GSM II
l YAMAHA: YV100II, YV100X, YV100Xg,YSM series.
l JUKI: KE2050, KE2060, KE2080, KE3020,RS-1
4, Reflow Soldering
l BTU, HELLER, ELECTROVERT, VITRONICS etc.
5、Plug-in machine： 
l PANASERT: AVF, AVK, AVK2, AVK3, JV.

V. Used SMT equipment purchase points
For users, what points should be noted when purchasing used SMT equipment? Mainly based on products, production, investment budget, equipment sources, after-sales service guarantee, whether refurbishment treatment, equipment brands, models and other eight aspects to consider.
1, product aspects: mainly look at * small CHIP, * dense QFP pitch, whether there are BGA or CSP devices. It is recommended that if your existing product * small parts is 0603, focus on the equipment that can paste 0402 parts, if * small is 0402 parts, focus on whether you can paste 0201 parts. If your QFP * small pitch is 0.5mm, focus on the one that can paste 0.4mm, if * small 0.4mm, consider 0.3mm. At the same time according to whether you have BGA and CSP and other parts to consider whether the equipment can all or most of your products to meet the technical requirements of the patch.
2, yield: according to your design capacity and the nominal speed of the equipment for calculation, calculation, according to the number of product parts, density, parts category to calculate your capacity. General calculation company for: CPH × efficiency value (50%-85%) × 22 hours × 25 days = the number of monthly patching. Generally is to high speed bonder resistance small material to calculate the capacity.
3, investment budget: used equipment prices depend on factors such as brand, model, year and source of equipment. Also depends on the balance of supply and demand in the market at the time, you can get the supplier to provide you with a suitable solution according to your approximate budget.
4, the source of equipment: According to the above analysis, in general, it is recommended that priority be given to European, American and Japanese equipment, followed by Southeast Asian equipment, and again domestic equipment, even if the domestic equipment is also recommended to give priority to equipment used by large factories.
5, after-sales service guarantee: If you do not have fully adequate maintenance capabilities, it is recommended that you focus on evaluating the supplier's after-sales service capabilities. Relatively speaking, the failure rate of used equipment may be higher than that of new machines, especially during the first 1-3 months of the break-in period. If there is no a good after-sales service, you even cheap to buy used SMT equipment, when the impact on your production will be great, should lose a lot for little.
6, whether the refurbishment process: refurbished equipment not only gives a new look and feel, and refurbished equipment basically eliminates the major hidden dangers of the equipment. Responsible second-hand dealers, after renovation and refurbishment of the equipment, will not leave the equipment major hidden problems to customers.
7, equipment brand: choose equipment brand one is to look at the mainstream brand of used equipment, the current used market mainstream placement machine brand is Panasonic and Fuji, followed by Siemens, Sanyo, Universal, Philips, again JUKI, YAMAHA, SAMSUNG and other brands; two is to see what brand your customers prefer you to use; three is to see which brand equipment your engineers are more familiar with.
       8, equipment models: although are very well-known placement machine brands, but there are always some models are reputable, there are always some models are in the transition period. It is recommended to choose the model with a greater number of users will bring you convenience. At the same time even if the same model of equipment launched in ** year when the product maturity is slightly weaker, the product * after a year of production out often * for mature and stable.