Highlights of 2010
ViTrox "Go Green" Groundbreaking Ceremony
The 3rd of August 2010 marks a significant milestone and the beginning of a new chapter for ViTrox Corporation.
It is the "ViTrox Groundbreaking Ceremony" with an environmental sustainability "Go Green" concept. The "Groundbreaking Ceremony" signifies the start of ViTrox Innovation Center (Phase 2) project. The construction of the highly anticipated second phase of the Innovation Center will commence today and in-line with ViTrox's Go Green Concept, the event is carried out with a sustainability concept in mind.
Our employees carry out various environmental friendly efforts such as healthy food preparations of vegetarian food, using recyclable wares, recycle of food residues and green & lean washing . These are some of the efforts taken by ViTroxians to play our part for our environment.
ViTrox Expansion Drive
ViTrox Corp Bhd is embarking on a RM45mil research and development (R&D) expansion programme next year that will re-position the group as a high-tech inspection equipment manufacturer of advanced X-ray inspection (AXI) and optical inspection (AOI) in 2012.
The expansion programme would enable ViTrox to further carry out R&D activities into developing the next generation of advanced X-ray and optical inspection equipment which were capable of checking solder joint defects for printed circuit board (PCB) components such as motherboards at sub-micron level, with higher inspection speed and greater accuracy, from three dimensional perspective.
ViTrox "Go Green" Initiatives
In the year 2010, ViTrox has carried out various activities to raise awareness on environment protection and living in harmony with the earth.
Some of the "Go Green" activities which happened all year long was the Coastal Cleanup Campaign at Gurney Drive, Penang.ViTrox employees joined in the effort to keep Penang Clean especially at the seaside and beaches, which are among the main tourist attractions in Penang.
Every Monday is ViTrox's vegetarian lunch day. ViTrox is subsidizing partial vegetarian lunch to encourage a healthy diet among the employees.
Apart from that, ViTrox is encouraging our employees to practise a lean lifestyle by organizing various teambuilding activities with an eco-friendly concept. We have organized activities such as "Making garbage enzyme from fruit skin", "Environmental Protection programmes in Tzu Chi" and visit to "ESH Resource Management Sdn. Bhd." in Juru .
On top of that,ViTrox has also organized several student industrial visits from various Malaysian local universities such as USM and UTP. The purpose is to educate and inspire the future generations about Malaysia's very own local company which are able to grow and become the best if we are bold enough!
Human Resource Minister Award
ViTrox has garnered the Human Resource Minister Awards 2010 under the category of small and medium-sized employers, manufacturing sectors which was organized by Pembangunan Sumber Manusia Berhad at Sunway Pyramid Convention Centre on 19th 2010.
The awards recognise that the outstanding organisation in their Human Resource Development (HRD). They are all exemplary organisations, dedicated and committed to Human Resource Development and should be emulated by others.
ViTrox's Newly Launched Range of Products
The year 2010 sees the launched of a series of products namely the Tray Vision Inpection Handler (TH1000), Advanced X-Ray Inspection (V810 AXI), and PCB Automated Optical Inspection (V2000 AOI).
A Superior AXI Solution for SMT line, the V810 is the world fastest and best test coverage AXI system
Our R&D team has been working very hard to produce a range of innovative and competitive products.
The V810 was launched in March 2010. A superior AXI solution for SMT line, the V810 is the fastest AXI system in the world. It is a 3D automated X-Ray machine that inspects double-sided panels with high defect coverage, high inspection speed and low false calls rate. Deploying state of the art hardware, scanning and image acquisition technology, ViTrox's V810 is known to be the fastest system in the world without sacrificing accuracy.
ViTrox's Tray Inspection Handler (TH1000) was launched in March 2010 which performed final inspection on various IC deviced handled in tray. The TH1000 is packed with new innovative features specially catered to your targetted needs. It ensures seamless integration of your handler, advanced computing configurations, easy calibrations, user friendly software and hardware features couples with advanced vision inspections. TH1000 is the machine which gives you only what you want in a vision handler.
The V2000 Automated Optical Inspection was also launched with improved advanced features and technologies. The V2000 performs automated inspection on flex and PCB bare boards. Incorporating latest multi-core CUDA processing, dual high speed 12K camera, maintenance free LED light source, bi-directional scanning and pin or margin guided capable, the V2000 is now jam-packed with advanced features.
ViTrox New Patents
On top of ViTrox's 3 previously filed patents, we have also obtained new patents in year 2010. Details are as follows :-
a) A method and means for measuring Positions of Contact Elements for an electronic components (No.: PI20082704)
b)Front Light for 3D SMD Semiconductor Inspection (No.: PI20095353)
c)Vision illumination apparatus for Semi Translucent Device
(No.: PI2010003652)
d)An illumination system (No.: PI2010004059)