At a glance
| Booth | R7112 |
| Country | DE |
| Website | www.marco-systems.com |
Company profile
marco Systemanalyse und Entwicklung GmbH develops and builds complete precision dispensing systems for electronics manufacturing, including its own piezo-actuated valves, customized valve seats, and material supply systems designed for stable handling without bubbles. Its engineering scope covers contact and non-contact dispensing, inline optical inspection for closed-loop process control, gantry integration, custom automation lines, hardware, control software, and vision systems. The systems are intended to carry applications from prototyping into series production with repeatable dispensing, reliable fluid handling, process stability, and integrated control. marco Systemanalyse und Entwicklung GmbH works from an analysis-and-development approach in which material properties, application methods, process parameters, and the production environment are examined together with the customer's engineering team before a dispensing solution is defined. This approach can result in a complete high-precision dispensing system, a customized valve design, an additional process module, or an extension of an existing production process. The modular platform is used across electronics, medical technology, automotive production, consumer electronics, precision engineering, LED production, semiconductor technology, and other specialized manufacturing sectors that require precise microdispensing. The company describes years of research, development, and practical experience in microdispensing and works with high-tech partners to adapt solutions to the requirements of different industries and customers. Its technical teams include researchers, inventors, developers, technicians, manufacturing specialists, and engineers working across specialized machinery, automation, and software development. Dispensing valves and systems are developed around in-house piezo technology, including the TorqueBlock drive, and the product range is designed for integration into existing production lines as well as marco gantry systems. The dispensing products undergo testing and continuous inspection and are described as ISO 9001 certified, with decades of experience associated with Made in Germany production. Integration support spans initial consultation and planning, installation and commissioning, and post-commissioning services such as regular maintenance and system optimization. The company's turning operation in Apolda, Thuringia, adds in-house capability for micro-turned parts used in dispensing solutions and for customized components manufactured to drawings.
Exhibits
The dispensing portfolio covers dispensing heads, media-supply equipment, gantry systems, micro-turned parts, and the VisTwo industrial control system, with solutions for precise microdroplets applied with or without contact. Supported media include silicones, hot melts, UV adhesives, paints, varnishes, coatings, lubricants, solder pastes, fluxes, acrylics, and two-component materials across low- and high-viscosity ranges. The modular systems can dispense complex patterns on difficult-to-access or uneven surfaces, handle different materials within one dispensing cycle, and be integrated into existing production environments. Piezo valves, high-precision valve seats, mixing and degassing preparation systems, and intelligent gantry systems are combined to improve dispensing accuracy, reduce material waste, and increase process efficiency. The same modular approach supports customized systems for individual microdispensing requirements while preserving flexibility for changing fluids, products, and production conditions. The SJet valve family uses actively regulated StrokeControl to define plunger travel, speed, and force, automatically compensate deviations, and return real-time feedback to the control computer. The piezo drive is specified for frequencies up to 4,000 Hertz and more than a billion cycles without maintenance, while BasicValves provide dispensing frequencies up to 500 Hz. Contactless methods include DotJet for precise dots or drops, StringJet for larger contactless quantities, and spraying or coating for fine application into cavities or across large and sensitive areas. Contact-based methods include NeedleDot for very small dots, NeedleLine for continuous lines along complex contours, and StepDot for autonomous movement across spatial axes when dispensing solder paste or forming dams in dam-and-fill processes. The dispensing valves and heads can control quantities below 1 nL, allowing small amounts of adhesives, solder paste, lubricants, coatings, acrylics, silicones, and two-component media to be applied while reducing material use. Application examples include semiconductor manufacturing and display production, where small quantities of solder paste, flux, or silicone are placed precisely, and mini LEDs can be encapsulated with Liquid Rubber Silicone for major brands. Medical applications include dispensing heads used in the production of nasal sprays and auto-injectors for precise drug delivery, while food-industry applications include packaging processes involving silicone rings and pressure-relief valves. StepDot dispensing heads decouple valve motion from robot motion and raise contact-dispensing frequency from previously common levels of about 10 hertz to more than 100 hertz through x-y-z piezo movement of the nozzle. StepDot can maintain uniform height and width where line-dispensing paths overlap and can adjust corners individually with a round-corner function, supporting fast contact dispensing and customized patterns. MultiJet combines up to eight marco sJet valves for large-area, micrometer-precision material application, and VisTwo software provides real-time control for complex patterns at frequencies up to 1,000 hertz. MultiJet media supply can use heating elements arranged in multiple heating circuits to maintain constant material temperature, while valve position can be adjusted on rails with micrometer adjustment screws. The 2C Mixing Head mixes material directly before application, uses stepper-driven volumetric displacement for a defined mixing ratio, and offers dynamic mixing when high homogeneity or strongly unbalanced mixing ratios are required. The ax4 dispensing head carries a metering valve that rotates through 360 degrees and tilts from 0 degrees to 45 degrees, allowing access to dispensing points that are difficult to reach vertically or require a specific approach angle. Media-supply systems are designed for consistent dispensing conditions with both high- and low-viscosity materials, large containers or small cartridges, and container changes that can occur without interrupting production. FollowerPlate uses two receptacles for 1,000-gram cups in alternating operation, building supply pressure with a cylinder that presses into the cup so material flow can continue with only small residual quantities. PushMembrane stabilizes pressure at the valve or dispensing head through a separate oil and compressed-air reservoir, a plastic diaphragm, and controlled refill operation that maintains pressure without interruption. The media-supply range includes modular 3-litre and 25-litre tanks with an in-house pump using a 3x pressure booster, plus a 5-liter stainless-steel basic tank that accepts containers or cartridges directly. The 3-litre tank uses a Venturi nozzle to generate vacuum up to 300 millibar, while the 25-litre tank can use a propeller, integrated heating, and a degassing vacuum system reaching up to 50 millibars. The marc0 and marc3 gantry platforms combine robot motion with dispensing control and are offered as tabletop, inline, frame, or standalone solutions for integration into production lines. marc0 provides a 440 x 255 x 140 mm working area, continuous dispensing-head position monitoring by linear encoder, a thermally stable steel structure, and an integrated Dispensing Control Unit that coordinates robot movement and dispensing. marc3 is the third generation of the marco gantry platform and is specified for positioning accuracy up to 3 µm, tool weights up to 13 kg, and linear motors on the X, Y, and Z axes. marc3 also provides configurable workspaces, quickly interchangeable dispensing heads, integrated media-supply options, and configurations for cleanrooms and controlled environments. Together, the gantry systems can deliver a complete path from dispensing head to inline robot as a single integrated dispensing solution. The Apolda turning shop manufactures micro-turned parts from steel, stainless steel, brass, aluminum, plastics, and special materials, including knurled, hexagonal, cross-drilled, threaded, shaped, and long-turned geometries. Shaped and long-turned parts are produced up to 6 millimetres in diameter, using cam-controlled automatic lathes or CNC sliding-headstock lathes for medium and large series. Complex micro-workpieces can reach 16 millimetres in diameter, longer workpieces can reach 190 millimetres, and CNC sliding-headstock machines provide up to 9-axis machining for cross drilling and milling. The turning operation supports prototypes and small, medium, and large series for medical, measurement, control, mechanical-engineering, automotive, aerospace, sensor, and microdispensing applications. Quality assurance for these parts includes microscopes, monitoring and measuring technology, process monitoring according to test plans, and optional reworking such as hardening and coating.
Capabilities and products
- contact and non-contact piezoelectric dispensing valves
- customized dispensing valve seats
- micro-spraying and conformal coating equipment
- high-viscosity fluid dispensing valves
- high-speed contact dispensing heads
- multi-valve array micro-jet dispensing heads
- two-component mixing and dispensing heads
- rotatable and tiltable dispensing heads
- constant-pressure dispensing material supply systems
- vacuum degassing of dispensing materials
- closed-loop dispensing control with inline optical inspection
- desktop and inline gantry dispensing robots
- dispensing automation production-line integration
- industrial dispensing control software
- dispensing system installation, commissioning and maintenance
- custom manufacturing of precision micro-turned parts
- microdispensing systems for adhesives, solder paste and underfill
- continuous supply systems for high-viscosity materials
- storage and supply tanks for low-viscosity materials
- hardening and coating of turned parts