OEMs and EMS companies can regularly encounter problems with critical components when they discover that these are no longer available. These may be required for an imminent assembly job for which inventory and/or WIP is already building up and , to
Industry Directory | Association / Non-Profit
The Taiwan Trade Center is an overseas branch office of CETRA, the largest trade promotion organization in Taiwan. Founded in 1970, CETRA�s mission is to promote and develop the foreign trade of Taiwan by providing comprehensive trade-related services to both domestic and foreign business communities. The main purpose being to assist foreign firms source products from Taiwan manufacturers.
Industry Directory | Consultant / Service Provider / Manufacturer
SEICA offers innovative ATE solutions which range from Bare Board Test, Flying Probe Systems, In-Circuit and Combi Test to Functional Test.
Industry Directory | Manufacturer
main Service: * Supply original new and used SMT spare parts. * Supply Copy new SMT spare parts. * Supply SMT relate equipment. * Supply SMT ancillary products and tools. * Repair Service.
Industry Directory | Distributor
MEGAH PRINTING PT.MEGAH ARASCO UTAMA Megah Printing is a leading provider of imaging and technology products and services for Printers. Created in 2020, megahprinting.com represents the e-commerce division of the company.
Career Center | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA | Management,Production
Direct, control and coordinate the manufacturing and test activities of 15 - 20 people in SMT circuit board assembly area. Achieve efficient and economical production, maintain the highest standards of quality and meet or exceed customer requireme
Technical Library | 2008-12-11 01:15:56.0
Flame retardants have been around since the Egyptians and Romans used alum to reduce the flammability of wood. Brominated flame retardants (BFRs) first experienced use after World War II as the substitution of wood and metal for plastics and foams resulted in materials that were much more flammable. The widespread use of BFRs initiated in the 1970s with the explosion of electronics and electrical equipment and housings. For the US market, all of these products must conform to the UL 94 flammability testing specifications. In fact, the most common printed circuit board (PCB) in the electronics industry, FR-4, is defined by its structure (glass fiber in an epoxy matrix) and its compliance to UL 94 V0 standard.
Technical Library | 2016-09-29 17:23:51.0
The old tactic of outsourcing to a low cost geography simply to deliver lowest cost direct and indirect labor was never a panacea supply chain solution. In fact, when evaluating solutions for lower volume and higher mix products typically found in the medical, industrial and public safety segments of the OEM market, IL & DL costs are only one subset of the total cost to land the product and service the ultimate customer. In this paper, there will be examination of what actual cost components should be included in a landed cost analysis, the soft costs that an OEM should consider to deliver outstanding performance in quality, logistics and delivery management of the supply chain solution. A detailed comparison using a 'case study' will be presented to demonstrate a total landed cost option versus one that is focused on IL/DL cost.
Technical Library | 2018-03-15 07:23:35.0
The SMT assembly process is continuously challenged by the factors which enhance circuit board performance and limit productivity. The pick and place and reflow systems reflect these driven issues by adding more and more controls to their systems, but the fact is one of the age old processes continues to operate within the same rules since the dawn of the SMT assembly world: The SMT screen printing. (...)This paper showcases a new stencil process that was discovered by reverting to the basics:understanding the reason for each stencil material process, focusing on detailed finishes and a disciplined aperture design process, maintaining original designs, and making the correctly designed apertures to control the paste deposition. The test results drove us to focus the efforts on the aperture walls In this paper we will demonstrate with lab tests SMT process results howthe improved paste release results in improved SMT print process performance and its positive impact on SPI yields and EOL performance.
Technical Library | 2018-06-20 13:11:57.0
Manufacturers test to ensure that the product is built correctly. Shorts, opens, wrong or incorrectly inserted components, even catastrophically faulty components need to be flagged, found and repaired. When all such faults are removed, however, functional faults may still exist at normal operating speed, or even at lower speeds. Functional board test (FBT) is still required, a process that still relies on test engineers’ understanding of circuit functionality and manually developed test procedures. While functional automatic test equipment (ATE) has been reduced considerably in price, FBT test costs have not been arrested. In fact, FBT is a huge undertaking that can take several weeks or months of test engineering development, unacceptably stretching time to market. The alternative, of selling products that have not undergone comprehensive FBT is equally, if not more, intolerable.
