Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 16 20:04:08 EST 2002 | davef
Consider: * Understanding the cost of change. * Buying every feeder ever made for your machine. * Buying �High-Mix Low-Volume Manufacturing� Mahoney, M; Pearson Education (Prentice Hall); 1997 [013255688X] offered by SMTA. * Searching the fine SMTnet
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 24 17:04:28 EST 2006 | kevslatvin
We are looking into uprgading our current pick and place machine which is a very entry level machine with a higher class or more production oriented machine. On our current machine change over is fairly slow. I was wanting to know if any users of the
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 29 09:40:26 EST 2006 | kevslatvin
Thanks for the replies.With which ever machine we decide on the feeders with the most commonly used parts will stay on the machine. Also parts used on other jobs but not needed for the current one will be able to stay as well. The problem well run in
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 29 22:10:59 EST 2006 | davef
Kevslatvin When you visit the machine suppliers, why don't you time the setup of your 25 reels of components as part of your assessment?
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 28 14:49:13 EST 2006 | vickt
As mentioned, there are many ways to achieve a quick changeover. Every manufacturing environment is somewhat different..but here's a few ideas for you to consider 1. If you have lots of feeder space on a machine you can have several simultaneous se
Electronics Forum | Sat Mar 25 07:25:36 EST 2006 | smartasp
Hi There To answer your question 1 minute at the best. We are using 2 Opal XII and have the optional feeder exchange trolleys, which enables us to setup feeders off line and just exchange the trolleys onto the machines. The changeover can be done i
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 29 18:20:07 EST 2006 | LD
We are also a high mix/low volume OEM and are running Samsung CP45's with quick change carts on both sides of the machine. We currently average 12 minutes of internal changeover time per run with an average of 17 changeovers/day for 2 shifts. We ty
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 29 05:00:48 EST 2006 | rlackey
You could alternatively look at it another way - the customer asked how quick it would be to change over 20-25 feeders. All of the above machines have the capacity to hold at least double this, so the question is can you run the orignal product, w
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 28 11:40:40 EST 2006 | smartasp
Hi Frank As far as I know only the front can be configured for trolleys unless you know more. We have not come across any limitations with regards to the range of componets after assembling over 1500 different products. How do you compare the speed
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 30 06:32:17 EST 2006 | smartasp
Wow Frank You guys must be assemblyng overengineered Gaming machine boards. You beat me. My definition of quality is fit for purpose and thats the criteria we select our equipment. I suppose the Juki does exactly for you what you need. Still the fel
