Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 13 10:09:45 EST 2005 | rlackey
Hi Fasst1, Have Assemblion/Philips actually building machines for 20 years, or were they badged machines? (I'm not asking to be funny, I'm asking as I don't know) I've build product on Topaz's, Emeralds & Comets, and they have been good machines, b
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 02 22:51:34 EDT 1999 | Dean
| | HI EVERYONE, | | WE JUST BOUGHT 6 FCM MACHINES AND ARE HAVING | | A NUMERIOUS AMOUNT OF DOWN TIME COMPARED TO | | OUR 5 LINES OF FUJI EQUIPMENT.IS ANYONE HAVING | | BAD EXPERIENCE WITH PHILIPS FCM ETC? | | | | WHAT PROBLEMS ARE YOU HAVING? |
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 08 13:33:07 EDT 1998 | Brad Kendall
For pick and place, I have worked with the Zevatech machines and Philips machines. Both are great machines. The Zevatech will give you greater speed and still offer great accuracy and repeatability. Don't let the belt drive stuff scare you, it sta
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 13 11:55:42 EST 2005 | fasst1
Rob, I also appreciate the banter. It is good to have these discussions with end users in a (hopefully) non sales environment. Philips actually started building Pick and Place machines in 1980 for high volume accounts. They started out because th
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 16 19:02:55 EST 2004 | Frank Gearhart - Assembl�on Snr. Software Technical Specialist
The OS/2 software you are referring to is the CSM-PPS v3 which was released in 1999, it is now out of service. The current software for optimizing, balancing, and generating programs for a Topaz and other Gem machines off-line, is GemLine-PPS v8.0,
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 02 11:52:40 EDT 1998 | Dick Casagrande
We are investigating equipment for a new SMT line. We are an OEM doing thru hole assembly and now must decide whether to do SM assembly in house or sub-contract out. We are a low volume/high board mix company. Our boards are mixed tech with SM on bot
Electronics Forum | Sun Sep 06 12:46:22 EDT 1998 | Phillip Hunter
| We are investigating equipment for a new SMT line. We are an OEM doing thru hole assembly and now must decide whether to do SM assembly in house or sub-contract out. We are a low volume/high board mix company. | Our boards are mixed tech with SM on
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 23 07:33:28 EDT 1998 | The Wretched SMD
200 boards/Hr and oven will reflow ~180 boards/Hr but the P&P machine will only place 700-950 CPH when setup is taken into account. Minimum pitch is normally .020" and we place an Avg. of 491 TSSOPs and 217 BGAs a month. We don't even bother with 04
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 10 02:57:53 EDT 2018 | rob
Yes I would, most of our old Yamaha machines (before 2005) will do 30-35 microns @ 3 sigma with the fine camera option. Our Jukis with His res camera's will hit it too. You should be OK with most things after 1997 with the right camera choice (whic
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 24 06:59:37 EDT 2021 | joost
This is what I do when I want certain feeders to stick to certain positions: put all my feeders on feeder slot 0. Then put the feeders I do not want to move to the feeder slot they are in (program to spot 4,21 or what ever feeders slot you want them
