Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 20 08:23:13 EST 2009 | jeffreyj
MikeS - Thanks for the tips. Coombs book has been on my "to buy" list for awhile now... Guess I better buck-up and get it. EMPF is an old gem, for sure, but one I had forgotten about, so thanks for that reminder. I couldn't find the SMT 101 guide at
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 21 14:33:43 EDT 2015 | tsvetan
Setting aside the shameless advertisement :) Can you define what is high speed? The real high speed P&P machines are done by Sony, Juki, Samsung, Siemens, Fuji. The Chinese p&p machines I saw are with low speed (less 30 000 cph by ISO) poor design,
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 05 07:05:38 EST 2018 | spoiltforchoice
Printer->Placement->Inpsection(maybe just a conveyor long enough for someone to sit there)->Reflow Oven->Magazine loader. That can add up to quite a length. A 2nd user automatic printer will set you back at least $10k, an oven much the same, plus de
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 07 13:21:58 EDT 2024 | spoiltforchoice
I haven't got numbers for older machines. But for recent models DEK is quite clearly bigger than either a Speedprint/Europlacer or an MPM100. Speedprint/Europlacer focuses on its smaller footprint as a selling point, although it looks to me like a R
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 25 09:26:00 EST 2015 | spoiltforchoice
No, I'm not sure you will find anyone outside of China (well maybe Iran). You keep seeing many remarkably similar Chinese machines pushed on forums, eBay etc but I have never encountered anybody saying they had one. Neither have I encountered any equ
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 02 08:33:43 EST 2018 | dwl
40 parts per board multiplied by half a million per year is 20 million placements per year. That’s serious production. The machine is rated at 7500 placements per hour, so running 24/7 that’s 111 days per year. The rated placement rates on pick and
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 20 08:04:47 EDT 2018 | spoiltforchoice
Those of us doing low volume with mesh ovens and double sided boards will often use the titanium strips used for making boards more rigid for wave soldering. Gives you enough clearance for lower profile items that you would typically find on the firs
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 26 12:06:08 EDT 2007 | basem
$100K for this entire line. We are thinking of getting a Chinese made reflow oven that looks pretty good at $25K. Also, we need to deposit solder using a dispenser as stencil printing will be reserved only for higher volume boards. It will not be pra
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 05 11:21:50 EST 2018 | spoiltforchoice
Why are they so > expensive? Feeders are expensive, you can easily have considerably more invested in feeders than the placement machine. On new machines you won't find feeders coming in at much less than $500/each, often considerably more. As a r
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 01 17:36:31 EST 2018 | spoiltforchoice
I wouldn't touch one of these Chinese machines if a reliable "no headaches" experience is what you are after. I'm sure they do OK for whatever it is they are designed for, but actual volume production not so much. As others have said, proper machines
