Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 09 14:00:51 EDT 2018 | tey422
To me the most challenge would be the printing step. If you can print it, you should able to run it with SMT. We ran similar thickness flex boards before. But it's long flex with small stiffener at both ends, and it was 10up array. You need fixture
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 10 18:31:10 EDT 2018 | ks0707
Absolutely I will share the solution with you if I find something. Thomas, thank you for your help. Have a great weekend!
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 10 18:17:43 EDT 2018 | tey422
I am sorry to hear that they are unable to help you out too. If you do came up with the doable solution later, be sure to let me know about it too. I would like to learn new trick or knowing which house that can handle such task.
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 09 09:14:22 EDT 2018 | ks0707
Is there any special machines/equipment which are able to install FBGA parts on the very thin flex boards for Printing, Pick & Place, and Reflow ? Q2> Is there any Fixture house who can offer fixtures to enable SMT processes for those assemblies ? Q
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 09 16:24:27 EDT 2018 | ks0707
Hi Thomas, Thank you for your posting and I agree with you that Printing is the most difficult one. BTW, after you ran the one side (let's say Bottom side), my engineer worries about the distortion of flex board because of the thickness. In that ca
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 09 16:51:39 EDT 2018 | tey422
A good set of fixtures are what you need to get it done right. Since we are in the same area, I would recommend give ATD (Advance Tooling Design)a try, they located in San Jose. We been using fixtures from them for years. We build thousands of Fle
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 10 16:01:51 EDT 2018 | ks0707
Hi Thomas, Thank you for your advice. BTW, unfortunately, I received negative answer from the Fixture house same as below. =========== We have an issue here. Your board is too thin. It is fine to make the fixture for first side. But when you run
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 02 23:12:13 EST 1998 | Kelly
We run stiffeners on all of our product through our wave solder process and most of our product through our reflow and adhesive cure oven. The problem is we continually put on and take off stiffeners because of poor reliability of stiffeners staying
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 03 12:23:00 EST 1998 | Bill Schreiber
Kelly, How are you cleaning the stiffeners? The Smart Sonic cleaning process has been very successful in such applications. Visit the Smart Sonic Web Site at: www.smartsonic.com Or call me at 1(800) 806-440-R. Regards, Bill | We run stiffeners
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 04 16:56:27 EST 1998 | Chris Lampron
| | We run stiffeners on all of our product through our wave solder process and most of our product through our reflow and adhesive cure oven. The problem is we continually put on and take off stiffeners because of poor reliability of stiffeners sta
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