We make hot-bar soldering easy for you!

• New or Used Systems.

• We tool the equipment for your application.  We can even run your product if you wish to outsource it.

• Just send us samples of your product, and we'll do the rest.

• Lower prices than our competition.

Advanced Integrated Technologies Inc (AIT) is recognized throughout the world as a leading authority on hot-bar soldering equipment, including the manufacturing of hot bars and reflow soldering thermodes.  Get the benefit of our 20 years of experience building hot-bars (thermodes) for Unitek, Hughes, Avio, and many other bonding systems.

 You can use this form to request a quote on a hot-bar system for your application.  Send us as much information as possible.  Include pictures of any products, required date, and any other useful information.  We'll review the information and call you to discuss how to proceed.

Typically the best way to approach the development of a hot-bar system for any application is to send us samples of the products that you wish to bond together.  Also we need any information regarding recommended temperature, pressure, and time for the bonding/soldering application.  At that point we'll review the requirements and provide pricing and recommendations on how to proceed with the project.  

We can source and assemble either new or used hot bar soldering stations with all the necessary tooling custom designed for your soldering/bonding application.  AIT is also the affordable choice for your thermodes and hot bars.  We have over 20 years of experience building tools to fit all kinds of bonding equipment, including Miyachi Unitek, Avio, Hughes, and Microjoin. AIT uses very efficient manufacturing technology to produce the finest quality tools.  Call us today and let us bid on your hot-bar bonding equipment needs and thermode requirments.

The technology of soldering equipment has come a long way in the last couple of decades. In the early days Hughes Industrial Electronics Group in Carlsbad, California was the pioneer in developing the processes for using an electrically heated metal thermode to reflow presoldered contact pads, forming a bond between electronic components.  The original Hughes technology was eventually absorbed into Miyachi Unitek through a series of acquisitions. Miyachi Unitek is still recognized today as one of the largest producers of hot bar bonding and reflow soldering equipment.  At AIT we can take your application (samples of your product) and source and engineer a used hot-bar soldering system complete with all tooling required to hold and run your product, at a price far below that of new equipment.

The concept for hot-bar reflow soldering is quite simple.  Low voltage, high amperage electricity is run through a metallic thermode that is designed to have higher electrical resistance along the soldering face.  The electricity heats the thermode face to a predetermined temperature.  Typically most thermodes are fitted with a thermocouple wire that feeds temperature information back to the soldering power supply.  The soldering power supply is usually programmable to bring a thermode to a set temperature and hold it for a set amount of time.  The thermode is brought into contact with the components to be soldered or bonded, and the heat reflows the solder.  Different thermode materials produce different characteristics.  Some materials and designs are inherently more dimensionally stable when heated.  Others are designed to heat up and cool down quickly.  Still others are designed for very even heating along the thermode face.

Today Miyachi Unitek and Nippon Avionics produce several lines of equipment that use thermodes produced by AIT.  Our SLD-14 and SLD-16 series hot bars are interchangeable with Unitek 17TD and 69T series thermodes.  Both Hughes and Unitek heads that can accept the .125” x .125” square electrode shanks, can also accept any of our thermodes that are designed with a 2 piece shank like our SLD-1and SLD-1a series thermodes.

Nippon Avionics Co.,Ltd, otherwise known as Avio, is a Japanese producer of fine reflow soldering equipment.  Avio welders are widely used in Japan and parts of Asia. Avio weld heads are designed to look and function very similar to the Hughes/Palomar design.  The Avio soldering equipment uses thermodes like our SLD-6 and SLD-18 designs.   Most of our product pages for these have a table that cross references the Hot-bar Soldering Equipment manufacturer’s part numbers with AIT equivalent products.  Request a quote from us today and discover how AIT can save you money and put our experience to work for you.