The second stage of this year’s famous Tour de France cycle race passed less than four miles away from Europlacer’s manufacturing HQ in Rocheservière near Nantes in France. To mark the occasion, the process engineering team decided to create a surface mount homage to the great race, using the company’s atom platform.
Many of the company’s employees are keen cyclists. The Rocheservière engineers programmed the Pulsar pipette heads on the new atom machine to place chip components in the pattern of a road cycle racer. “It was simply an homage to the great race and its proximity to the factory,” explains Andy Jones, adding: “however, as the video shows, you could argue that there is a direct parallel between the impressive speed of the Tour de France peloton and that of the new Pulsar placement head!”
Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHzUAtocyGo&feature=youtu.be
‘Chapeau’ to them, as French cyclists like to say.
