AT Sensors has expanded its XCS Series of 3D laser profile sensors, a line built for high-speed inspection in electronics and semiconductor manufacturing. The top-end configuration, the 3070 WARP sensor, scans profiles at up to 140 kHz, which AT Sensors calls the "highest inspection speed available." The sensors are aimed at inspection of ball grid arrays (BGAs), coplanarity checks and other tasks where fine-pitch defects have to be caught without slowing down the line.
The XCS Series now covers two hardware generations sold side by side, C6 XCS and C7 XCS. Both share the same optical core, but AT Sensors lists the Ethernet interface, the number of points captured per profile, WARP availability and maximum profile speed as the differentiators between them. That leaves integrators a choice: adopt the newer C7 platform for its Ethernet and WARP support, or stick with the established C6 hardware for lines already built around it.
What's new here is the optics, not just the throughput number. AT Sensors says the XCS sensors use a laser line engineered for homogeneous thickness along its full length, meant to hold precision down to the smallest structures on a board, useful for reading solder balls on tight-pitch BGAs. A "clean beam" function is built to shield the laser from external interference and keep intensity distribution uniform, which matters for repeatability when the same board gets measured thousands of times a shift.
An optional dual-head configuration eliminates occlusion, letting the sensor capture 3D data on geometries a single laser head would miss. Field of view runs up to 53 mm. AT Sensors positions the XCS Series beyond straight electronics inspection, listing advanced packaging, AI chip inspection, eMobility and battery production, automotive metrology and general industrial automation among its target applications.
AT Sensors is not retiring the C6 XCS as the C7 ships. Both generations remain listed as current products, a sign the company expects existing BGA and advanced-packaging lines to keep running C6 hardware even as newer installations move to the faster, WARP-capable C7 configuration.
