SMT Express, Volume 2, Issue No. 4 - from SMTnet.com
Volume 2, Issue No. 4
Wednesday, April 19, 2000
Special Announcements
SMTnet Announces OnBoard Forum
New Feature to Bring Distinguished Professionals to SMTnet.
SMTnet is joining with McGraw Hill Publishers and Amazon to sponsor a new regular feature at SMTnet, the "OnBoard Forum". Each month we will bring leading authors and professionals in the electronics manufacturing industry to SMTnet to participate in discussions of new technologies, new products, and developments in the industry directly with our community.
We've tentatively scheduled the Harper discussion for mid-May. Look for an invitation to participate, including the final date and time in the next two weeks.
Featured Articles
SMT Assembly
Analysis of Factors that Affect Yield in SMT Assembly Edward Kamen, Alex Goldstein, Orapin Asarangchai, Georgia Institute of Technology,Allan Fraser, Kyle Klatka, GenRad, Inc.,Joe Belmonte, Speedline/MPM,Robert Huber, Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc. In many SMT production lines in operation today there is a substantial amount of data collection on yield and on the performance of the equipment in the line. Although a great deal of data is available, there is a lack of effective techniques for processing the data to determine the operational status of the equipment, or to be able to carry out predictive maintenance. Standard SPC charts represent the state-of-the-art in industry. However, the data collected from a standard SMT process is typically very noisy due to the natural variability of the SMT process itself, as well as the inherent measurement errors of the process monitoring equipment. To compound the problem, the relationships between all the various process variables and yield are unclear ...
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New Talkback Feature Added to Newsletter Articles A new feature, called Talkback, has been added to the articles in the SMT Express newsletter. Talkback will make the newsletter more interactive by allowing readers to comment on the articles. Reader comments are immediatley appended to the article itself. At the end of each article, you will see a link inviting you to post a Talkback. By clicking on it, you can post your comments directly to the page. Other readers' comments will appear there as well. This new feature will help improve the quality of the the newsletter, and insure that readers are being provided with the information they need.
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