Electronics Forum | Tue May 09 18:41:54 EDT 2006 | SMT_CNC
It is a very simple practice to leave a leader when breaking down a setup. This way the next time you're going to use the reel there is about a foot of cover tape to use. Seems to work in our SMT production area. Max.
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 30 12:48:54 EST 2006 | krc
Pardon my ignorance on this subject but I gotta ask... When the SMT guys load partial reels, I'm told that they have to waste a few components in the process. It seemed obvious to me that there should be a kind of tape that can be added to the end
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 30 12:51:23 EST 2006 | russ
They work okay, better than no leader tape. Of course to attach you may throw a couple of parts away as well. What you really need to do is discontinue buying strips.
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 30 13:23:16 EST 2006 | russ
I agree with greg, after a teardown there should be leader tape left for the next load. Are your operators tearing it off at the end of the carrier tape?
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 05 14:49:51 EDT 2006 | Cristina
The leader tape from Sierra works good for us. But if you have to work only with small strips and you can't affort to lose any parts think of moving them into waffle packs. It depends though if your machine has a tray for that. Regards, Cristina
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 31 16:06:58 EST 2006 | GS
I think this can be of help when dialing with setting up feeders for product prototyping, where often we have to dial with a short quantity of components (often pieces of carrier tape w/o tape and cover leader) just enough to run (if lucky) those few
Electronics Forum | Tue May 09 10:53:36 EDT 2006 | Tapesplice.com
Sierra Electronics can provide leader tape samples to any one that want to test. We can provide enough for testing at NO cost. We also have a Tape Splicer loan program that allows you to test ALL our Tape Splicing Products and lets you make the dec
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 30 13:02:45 EST 2006 | krc
We're not buying stips, they're whole reels at first. But because of things like discrete order sizes, or proto builds, or otherwise low-volume production, we're stuck with leftovers.
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 31 14:59:05 EST 2006 | samir
KRC, Let me guess. You're in the materials organanization at your company and you're judged by such metrics as "inventory accuracy" and "# of turns", and you're thinking that those sacrifial chip components are what causes your inventory accuracy to
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 30 13:53:53 EST 2006 | PWH
We've had poor luck with leaders - inefficient, not cost effective for the price of the parts usually. In my opinion, your best bet is to over-issue parts to a scrap # that works for you (all feeders are different as are machine scrap rates). This
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