Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 05 11:21:33 EDT 2006 | samir
At my 2nd company, I had a design EE come down, look at his product running down the line, looks at the reflow oven... He scoffs sarcastically...and then says, "What the hells so hard about this...you're just running it through an oven." Process an
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 05 11:44:04 EDT 2006 | Rob
We had one mechanical engineer from a certain customer telling us we had to crop components leads so they didn't protrude through the board, as they could then come in contact with the case as the board was flush. Had I have known then what I know
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 05 12:31:47 EDT 2006 | SWAG
I feel your pain - we do the same. My favorite: no extra panels or boards for profile and due to the fact that we're behind on an order, a first article of a fairly complicated board goes from 10 to an order for 500. Myself and production takes th
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 05 16:26:51 EDT 2006 | flipit
I had one SMT process engineer using rubber bands to hold a connector on second side reflow. Even the operators told him he was nuts. The zero stick through on leaded devices has come up several times for me. We clip leads first and pin in paste t
Electronics Forum | Sat Jul 08 20:11:20 EDT 2006 | Dick Koriska
I was once like that, worked for a major telecom manufacturer, couldn't design my way out of a paper bag, and now I'm making wooden pallets. My latest project is analysing the forces required to drive a nail into a plywood wooden pallet.
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 24 14:52:41 EDT 2006 | stepheniii
It must be at least a little more ESD safe than a polyester sweater. And I'm sure at least at sometime someone has worn some clothing made of plastic fibers at your place. basically find the worst thing you allow, (probably polyester sweaters) and
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 27 08:05:50 EST 2006 | davef
There is no standard for a strain gage measurement of allowable deflection of a board or a fixture. It's possible that your fixture is causing the BGA cracking that you see. What protion of the BGA is cracking? If it is the solder connection, sear
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 29 00:26:39 EST 2006 | mack3000
Hello everyone, I've been facing some issues regarding:- 1)missing components 2)overturn 3)misalignments Why does this occur?Is it because of the machines?The programming?Or handling issues? What steps are needed to be taken to counter this problem
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 04 20:18:17 EST 2006 | billwestiet
In the US, these OEMs have this information, becuase they participate in a market study where they all post sales to a single market study. Check with them directly, and they may share this data with some degree of accuracy. I'd be shocked if Sieme
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 05 09:46:50 EST 2006 | GS
I'd be shocked if Siemens was going away. They are a very big group in a very big company. Yes, but recently we have seen several big groups from a very big companies been sold out (ie. Dover and some of his kids, etc.) Asia-India are good referen
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