Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 12 21:42:33 EST 1999 | Jon Medernach
What's important in stencil printing (which differs from screen printing) is providing a consistant volume of paste at each interconnect. The process window varies in proportion to the pitch. More than 60% of all defects are related to solder depos
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 27 08:07:42 EST 2002 | caldon
Ovation Products (devision of Airline Hydraulics) makes a fixture just for Screen printing and PNP machines. This product is called grid lock. It's tooling that is air actuated and conforms to the bottom side of your PCB with gentle (gentle enough no
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 10 15:52:26 EST 2003 | eagle-eyed-one
Hello Neil, I absolutely agree with the conclusion of limits as you have stated. There are 2 sets of limits in which machines can be measured against for compliant performance. First and most critical being the quality performance specification limit
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 09 14:36:26 EST 1998 | Earl Moon
| Hi, I know for sure that by controlling temp. and humidity | conditions in SMT assy lines room, one gets advantage in | screen printing, adhesive dispensing, and pick&place | machines mainteinance. Does any one have any advice on why | else is a c
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 09 15:54:05 EST 1998 | Dave F
| Hi, I know for sure that by controlling temp. and humidity | conditions in SMT assy lines room, one gets advantage in | screen printing, adhesive dispensing, and pick&place | machines mainteinance. Does any one have any advice on why | else is a c
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 13 19:16:03 EST 2004 | pjc
Dedicated tooling uses what MPM calls an "H" tower. You mount the board support plate (dedicated tooling) on top of the H tower. If boards are only single-sided SMT, meaning only components on one side, the board support plate is flat with vacuum hol
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 02 15:05:38 EDT 2011 | davef
A couple of points: * Just a nit, 'screens' fell in disuse 10-15 years ago. Old habits die slowly don't they? * Yes, DEK and MPM each hold about 50% of the solder paste printer market and about 4 or 5 others hold the rest. SOLDER PASTE PRINTER EQUI
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 29 15:43:43 EDT 2004 | glaucon
Forgot details: Use a sample product that you will be running in production. Let each Equipment vendor run a test to meet your requirements. Often with each of these machines (MPM/DEK/EKRA) the key machine features are: -2D Inspection (for minimiz
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 21 19:38:33 EDT 2000 | Dave F
Eric: I�ll pass on the uV and ammonia, also. Thoughts are: 1 You�re correct that the temperature/humidity mix can be a big driver to latex peelable solder mask cure time, but don�t overlook material thickness. Dispensers put material in a very th
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 18 16:48:55 EDT 2001 | jschake
Why do you think that assembling the BGA, QFP, and fine pitch parts will solve your bridging problem? I would think doing this may cause you more grief by having these more massive components being reflowed upside down fall off during the second pas
