Siemens SMT Nozzle Manufacturer: SIPLACE 12-Star, C&P20A and Custom Tips by Southern Machinery

Direct answer: Southern Machinery is a Siemens SMT nozzle manufacturer: it cross-references ASM/SIPLACE pickup nozzles by item number and head model, then machines, moulds and vacuum-tests replacements against the same datasheet fields your original part carries. Coverage runs from 7xx/9xx special nozzles for the 12-star head to the ceramic and plastic families the X-series manual lists as wear parts, plus custom grippers. Every quotation line states the nozzle-changer field, because a nozzle that fights the changer is worse than no spare.

Hook: the pickup that fails once in four hundred and gets blamed on the feeder

A placement head that misses one pickup in four hundred does not stop the line. It leaks throughput one board at a time, and the nozzle is the last suspect anyone checks. A worn bore or a chipped ceramic edge changes the vacuum column and the contact geometry, so early symptoms stay small - an occasional miss, a rotated 0603, a rework nobody blames on the tip. The SIPLACE X-series manual is blunt: dirt and wear come off with a brush and compressed air, and a nozzle still out of spec after cleaning is replaced.

Diagnosis: why the OEM-only route turns a 15-gram consumable into a budget line

Nozzles sit in the same wear-part tables as filter disks and hoses - a part you replace on a calendar is a recurring cost, and a recurring cost deserves a second source.

The three costs EMS buyers bring to a Siemens nozzle supplier

• Lead time on a scheduled part. Consumed on a calendar, bought on OEM terms: a slipped shipment idles a head for a consumable worth less than an hour of line time.
• Unplanned correction. Out-of-spec tips show up as miss rate and rework - never as a nozzle invoice.
• Odd-form parts with no catalog answer. Transformers, sleeved electrolytics, brackets and locking connectors stop where the datasheet stops, and are placed by hand.

Framework: identify, verify, replicate

Identify

Your item number runs against three registers: the special-nozzle catalog (0034xxxx, 030xxxxx), the booklet's ASM/Siemens tables (900 series for the 12-head, 1000 series for the 20-head) and the manual's wear-part list.

Verify

A first article runs on your head, in your program, on your component. The pickup and vacuum records are the acceptance sheet, not a certificate that never saw a feeder.

Replicate

The approved geometry becomes a batch under one code, with the match tier on the quotation: 50 % functional equivalent, 90 % dimension-for-dimension on the datasheet fields, or 100 % documented replica including changer behaviour.

Vehicle: what Southern Machinery supplies for Siemens / ASM heads

What the Siemens / ASM nozzle families cover

7xx / 9xx special nozzles for the 12-star head. 128 datasheets, edition 12/2004: Vectra liquid-crystal polymer bodies with PU, aluminium, steel, POM, PA6.6 or ceramic inserts. 108 of the 128 pages state nozzle-changer handling, and the rest carry a restriction. Documented example: type 731, Vectra A230/PU, 15 mm, a 0.9 mm opening with a 1.2 mm slot.

Ceramic and plastic families 10xx to 30xx. The manual's wear-part tables list these per configuration, with cleaning boxes, cartridge racks and guiding plates. C&P6/12 and TwinHead carry 6 or 12 nozzles per head; the C&P20A star carries 20.

Custom nozzles, grippers and rubber tips. Chucking fingers, E-cap grippers, odd-form jaws and the booklet's 8.0 mm and 10.0 mm rubber rows, each starting from your sample and ending as a documented part number.

Parameters to confirm before ordering

• Head model - C&P6/12, TwinHead, C&P20A or CPP; your exact variant is not specified in source - contact Southern Machinery to confirm.
• Item number and datasheet page - the five catalog fields: item number, name, material, restriction, changer handling.
• Component and package - 0603, 1005, 3216, SOP, QFP, or an odd-form part needing a gripper.
• Body and tip material - Vectra LCP with PU, aluminium, steel, POM, PA6.6 or ceramic; rubber or PU for large and delicate parts.
• Tooling already owned - cartridge rack 10xx [03071700-xx], cleaning box [03055736-xx], ESD wriststrap [00320279-xx].
• Service life and price - not stated in the supplied documents; the interval comes from your line data, price per item and tier.

How a nozzle programme connects to the line

Feeders and SMT pick-and-place sit upstream; wave soldering and odd-form insertion sit downstream; the board-handling band sets how fast panels move. Southern Machinery has built SMT, THT, wave soldering and board handling equipment in Shenzhen since 2011 for 237+ customers, so nozzles can share an order with a THT line machine or an axial inserter.

ROI formula (example inputs - depends on configuration, subject to final technical confirmation):

annual value addressed
  = (nozzle-related unplanned stops per month x minutes lost per stop / 60)
    x share attributed to nozzles
    x cost per idle line-hour
    x 12

Example only - illustrative inputs, not a Southern Machinery saving claim: 6 stops per month x 25 minutes x 40 % attributed x USD 400 per idle line-hour = 1.0 idle hour per month, about USD 4,800 addressed per year.

Loop: the cleaning discipline that keeps a spare set requalifying

Manual section 4.7 is written for nozzles, and following it is what makes a requalified nozzle behave like a new one.

1. Prepare safely - ESD protection on, head parked, hood secured.
2. Set the nozzles down in the changer - manual 4.7.3; never pull live nozzles out of a running head.
3. Brush, never in bulk - printed as a CAUTION: slight pressure, back and forth.
4. Blow through - compressed air through the bore, then back into the rack.
5. Ultrasonic bath for ceramic only - distilled water, tips about 2 mm in, level within 2 mm of the mark (manual 4.7.4.1).
6. Verify before reload - vacuum check and a short pickup trial; a nozzle still out of spec is a replacement.

Log every position - code, head, hours, failure mode. Two months of it gives you the service interval no brochure publishes.

Questions buyers of Siemens nozzles actually ask

Which Siemens / ASM heads do you cover? The 12-star families (C&P6/12, TwinHead), the C&P20A star with 20 nozzles, and CPP segments; 7xx/9xx versions are documented for the 12-star head.

Do you match OEM part numbers exactly? We match geometry and function, and we state the tier: 50 % functional equivalent, 90 % dimension-for-dimension on the datasheet fields, 100 % documented replica including changer behaviour.

Will your nozzles run through the automatic nozzle changer? 108 of the 128 catalog datasheets state "Handling with Nozzle Changer: Yes"; the rest carry a restriction or a "No".

Do you also supply the cleaning equipment? Yes - the S-6200 automatic nozzle cleaning machine and the SCM24 cleaner, with the nozzle cleaning machine instructions on the document server. The SMT Nozzle Supplier booklet and the ASM Siplace spare-parts listing are the registers we match against.

CTA: send five item numbers, get five match lines

One message with your item numbers, head model and component photos starts the process; the reply says what matched and what each tier costs. Write to [info@smthelp.com](mailto:info@smthelp.com).

Begin with your worst miss-rate position: send the five item numbers you buy most often today and we will return five match lines within a business day. If a part will not place at all, photograph it beside the head and we will read the geometry first.