U Hello everyone, I am Unokuchi, a supporter of the soldering life.

O I am Obata.

U Best regards. I heard that you are new activities today.

O Yes.

U How exactly?

O Yes, I am usually in sales, but I am also involved in CRM activities.

U CRM?

O Yes, simply put, Customer Support. I know that many of our robots are used by our customers, and we are allowed to enter their sites to maintain them. I am doing this for them.

U I see, I think there is a lot of maintenance, but what kind of activities in particular?

O そI think it’s a good idea to have a robot that can be used in a variety of ways. We check to see if they are using our robots without any problems and give them various advice.
Today, I would like to introduce a very useful maintenance tool that I use with my clients for various measurements. I would like to introduce something very useful for maintenance.

U What kind of device is it?

O It’s a measuring instrument.

U What do you mean by measurement?

O It measures things like the temperature of the soldering iron tip.

U That has been around for a while, but this is about the thermometer, right?

O Yes, this has been around for a long time and is widely used, but there are better measuring instruments than this. Like this UNI-TESTER.

U Tester? I see, how is it different?

O Well, this is a thermometer. The UNI-TESTER, when used in automatic machines, has a feature called automatic offset function for the soldering iron tip temperature. It’s very convenient, so let me introduce it to you.

U So, could you tell us the difference between the traditional soldering iron thermometers and this new tester?

O Yes, let’s actually do it.

U Yes, please.

O We feed solder to the soldering iron tip. By applying solder to the tip, the temperature can be measured stably. Next, the thermometer sensor is applied to the tip. Then we adjust how it’s applied for stable measurement. If the set value was 350 degrees, and the actual measurement is 325 degrees, we need to input a plus 25 degrees. Here, we adjust the difference between the set value and the actual temperature. Yes, we just finished the offset, so let’s verify that it’s been properly corrected.

U That was the manual offset procedure, right? Next, let’s do it with automatic offset.

O Yes, you’ve seen both the manual and automatic correction methods.

U Wow, that reduces the steps quite a bit.

O Yes. Besides reducing labor, there are various other measurements that can be done.

U For example?

O Measurements like leakage voltage and resistance between the soldering iron tip and ground, other than the temperature of the tip, can be done.

U These are determined by standards, right?

O Yes, there are certain standards. Exceeding them can cause damage to the board. Everyone knows about it, but there are still details that are not thoroughly checked.