Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 01 22:05:01 EDT 2023 | calebcsmt
For contract manufacturers, Unless expectations/requirements are particularly specified by customers OR there is a discussion and contract in place, what are the expectations when it comes to the assembly standards and practices? Is J-STD essenti
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 30 13:45:20 EDT 2000 | Paul Wright
Ioan, It looks like the JEDEC Standard is a place to start. I think it would be possible to have people follow the standard internally. Getting the external customers to follow will be difficult at best. But if its possible to develop a close rela
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 30 18:24:12 EST 2001 | davef
There is no test. Beyond the issues that you mentioned that affect shear, an article published in a recent [1/01] "Journal Of Surface Mount Technology" documents that shear is also dependent on the rate of shear. You may be able to contact the auth
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 18 23:15:26 EDT 2002 | fastek
If Universal for example decides they want to implement a registration fee to pursade customers from buying used then why have they dropped their shorts from $20,000 to register a GSM in 2000 to $2,000 recently? Guess they were tired of losing custom
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 22 05:00:47 EDT 2002 | kbayley
The reply from J. Baldwin details the most frequent causes of Board Transfer issues on the DEK 288 machine. The DEK.com web site offers a variety of Process, Service and Support details on all DEK products, with the ability to contact the DEK Custom
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 15 12:55:41 EDT 2003 | sam
We are contract manufacturer for SMT and complete products. There were cases that we charge our customer for the set-up costs, mainly for some trial and evaluation work on our SMT line, especially when mass production order is not confirmed yet. F
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 08 08:00:46 EDT 2003 | davef
Matt: You're correct. Do not mess with these boards. If the immersion tin [imm tin] is discolored, it will not solder with routine processes. Ask your customer to return the boards to his / her fabricator and have the imm tin replated. The fabri
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 05 21:47:35 EDT 2004 | KEN
Agreed. Joint failure can happen when un-bagging or durig box-build (at customer site). Careful handling should be used. In one case I had boards returned to me for evaluation and failure analysis. Too bad our site never built the boards!!! (jacka
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 20 03:52:16 EDT 2005 | Rob
....However your customer may demand it of you (which many are in the UK) as they often have little knowledge of the manufacturing process having subbed out for years... Obviously it needs to be a smooth transition so the subby can continue to build
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 24 12:34:13 EST 2006 | Ticky Ticky Tembo No Sarimbo Hari Kari Bushkie Perry Pem Do Hai
Stepped stencils are usually the result of some dumb customer's requirement. 2 examples I can give: 1.) Customer demanded 50% wick-up the termination of a MELF component. No way you can get that from reflow. Played around with a drastic "step up
