Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 20 13:13:20 EDT 2016 | ttheis
Hi Guys, Yesterday one of our two gsm1 machines just stopped moving and let down the board mid-production. The epc computer continued to respond but no messages were displayed when palming up or down. I tried local IO and it said no IO was configure
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 09 16:51:39 EDT 2018 | tey422
A good set of fixtures are what you need to get it done right. Since we are in the same area, I would recommend give ATD (Advance Tooling Design)a try, they located in San Jose. We been using fixtures from them for years. We build thousands of Fle
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 10 18:31:10 EDT 2018 | ks0707
Absolutely I will share the solution with you if I find something. Thomas, thank you for your help. Have a great weekend!
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 09 14:00:51 EDT 2018 | tey422
To me the most challenge would be the printing step. If you can print it, you should able to run it with SMT. We ran similar thickness flex boards before. But it's long flex with small stiffener at both ends, and it was 10up array. You need fixture
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 10 16:01:51 EDT 2018 | ks0707
Hi Thomas, Thank you for your advice. BTW, unfortunately, I received negative answer from the Fixture house same as below. =========== We have an issue here. Your board is too thin. It is fine to make the fixture for first side. But when you run
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 09 09:14:22 EDT 2018 | ks0707
Is there any special machines/equipment which are able to install FBGA parts on the very thin flex boards for Printing, Pick & Place, and Reflow ? Q2> Is there any Fixture house who can offer fixtures to enable SMT processes for those assemblies ? Q
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 09 16:24:27 EDT 2018 | ks0707
Hi Thomas, Thank you for your posting and I agree with you that Printing is the most difficult one. BTW, after you ran the one side (let's say Bottom side), my engineer worries about the distortion of flex board because of the thickness. In that ca
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 10 18:17:43 EDT 2018 | tey422
I am sorry to hear that they are unable to help you out too. If you do came up with the doable solution later, be sure to let me know about it too. I would like to learn new trick or knowing which house that can handle such task.
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 10 09:03:52 EDT 1999 | ScottM
| | hi, i m college student. i m currently doing my Final year project in PCB drilling. the main task is to design auto feeder which allign the PCB properly in position before drilling take place. the close tolerance becomes a big problem to the prec
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 09 09:13:10 EDT 1999 | Scott Cook
| hi, i m college student. i m currently doing my Final year project in PCB drilling. the main task is to design auto feeder which allign the PCB properly in position before drilling take place. the close tolerance becomes a big problem to the precis
