Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 20 14:23:50 EDT 2002 | larryk
PizzaFred, Scott mentioned lots of good ideas. Take one of your boards to each vendor and see what it takes to program the board how long it takes for it to become online. I've found some that are easy to program, but require 40 or more assemblies to
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 19 21:46:01 EDT 2002 | scottefiske
In the past year I was responsible for developing and leading a Team focused on AOI, Evaluation, Justification, and with a full ROI required, supporting a HMLV manufacturing environment. If you have in these economic times the additional resources t
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 06 06:23:31 EST 2007 | clampron
Good Morning Roger, The Mirtec's can be adjusted to lower your false call rate. This can be done by reducing the matching percentage for each componnent but the result of this action is that the machine becomes less selective. If you lower them too
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 16 15:22:27 EDT 1999 | SMTASSY
We are currently looking at purchasing an AOI equipment but would like facts from present users of such equipment. Our envirronment is as followed, - Runs from proto to 5000 boards of the same type. - 20% PTH, 60% Mixed (with some BGA) and the rest
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 03 10:11:20 EDT 2011 | remullis
I am being asked by management to setup one piece flow through every operation. We have SMT,DIP,RAD,AX,MANU,WAVE, Quite a bit of hand soldering, Post Inspection, AOI,CLEANING,BARCODING then out the door. We have rougly 60 different products with most
Electronics Forum | Sat Sep 14 12:24:44 EDT 2002 | scottefiske
We need to remember here that as printer manufacturers were enhancing their product lines, miniaturization was quickly being developed in the background. In the last 2 years I was involved in developing and conducting a D.O.E./F.M.E.A in determining
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 11 19:54:52 EDT 2001 | gsparka
HELLO. SMTNETERS there is no company in high mix low volume system in our contry so . what is the best way to calculate the capa. of smt line in high mix low volume. & what is the general way to get the defect rate to evaluate the smt line(or sm
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 30 10:48:18 EDT 2005 | cmiller
If you do not have a lot of TH joints there are some advantages. No boards "submarined" in solder pot on wave. You can solder the bottome side SMT parts rather than epoxy them when the parts are put down. This should reduce SMT defects and missing pa
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 25 20:59:51 EDT 2001 | davef
As Wolfgang says: Conveyor speed may be too high. Excuse me for not stripping-out my repetition from your list, but other machine adjustments to consider are: * Using more efficient [higher specific gravity] flux. [Got it!!!] * Adjusting wave shape
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 27 10:22:59 EDT 2009 | dwl
We have an opportunity to purchase a Yestech YTV-1000 AOI machine. I am looking for opinions on how well they work and how they compare to the newer Yestech B3 AOI systems. We are a high mix, low volume EMS company. We do not currently have any exp
