Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 08 13:45:47 EDT 2017 | rvines1
Is the industry really moving toward unmarked chip resistors? I've been seeing a lot of unmarked 0603 resistors lately, and when I check the data sheets, all their photos are of marked parts, and they don't say anything about it.
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 30 09:00:07 EDT 2017 | rvines1
The difference is that our customer expected these resistors to be marked, and Panasonic's documentation online is inadequate to prove otherwise.
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 11 15:18:47 EDT 2017 | dleeper
I wish they would marking chip capacitors. I never understood why they didn't...
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 12 07:33:44 EDT 2017 | stephendo
You mean why did they stop marking chip caps.
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 11 12:37:03 EDT 2017 | rvines1
Our AOI machines have actually caught wrong resistors before. A reel gets swapped, a vendor sends a wrong part, things happen. To think that we can't rely on resistor markings anymore, that just sucks.
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 30 08:47:39 EDT 2017 | philc
As an AOI operator as well, I can see your point, but what about 0402 parts, and all chip capacitors? These parts are not marked, but I presume you accept those? In relaity, an unmarked resistor is no different to any cap, and you don't worry about t
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 11 12:03:25 EDT 2017 | emeto
Absolutely - it is probably cheaper! Soon they might start doing it with the transistors, diodes and ICs too. Why would you need a sophisticated AOI machine then? What would quality control look for? It is annoying, considering the amount of differen
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 15 09:08:01 EDT 2017 | rvines1
It gets tricky when resistors that your customer specified are no longer marked, but they think that unmarked resistors are a defect, and the manufacturer hasn't updated their data sheet to show the parts as unmarked, so you don't have anything to sh
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 15 09:14:55 EDT 2017 | dleeper
From my perspective, I like marked parts because I can use AOI to verify the correct parts are being placed in production. If an operator is going to load the wrong reel, I prefer to find out on the first PCB rather than after 5000 wrong parts have b
Electronics Forum | Sat Oct 28 08:51:20 EDT 2017 | rvines1
The manufacturer I was having issues with was Panasonic. The parts we use were unmarked, but their catalog pages didn't make any mention of marking and included photos of marked parts. After 6 months of making various unsuccessful contacts with Pan
