Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 19 14:44:11 EDT 2002 | kenbliss
It sounds like your inspector improved quality and pre-staging your feeders dramaticaly increased uptime on your machine, thats great to hear. One cautiionary note, be careful not to flood your production area with parts off of your SMT line. With
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 01 07:10:02 EDT 2013 | bobpan
It could be PC Memory or maybe a full hard drive. I would check the following first. 1. Reset board count (there is a bug that causes problems if the count gets too high.) 2. Make sure ROA=OFF if the line is in your configuration file editor. 3. Ma
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 21 19:27:54 EST 2000 | Scott S. Snider
With the Siemens line computer it is possible to see what the maximum placements per hours should be for any given job/setup. After you optimize the job you should check that and see how you perform against that number. In many cases the placements
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 29 13:15:42 EST 1999 | E.
SMT Mfg. Equipment: Fuji CP-6/IP-3 - but please all hi-speed chip placer users input are appreciated !! The company that I work for is a C/M which offers both consignment but mostly turnkey work. I am currently running 3 Fuji lines. All parts for th
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 19 09:00:18 EDT 2010 | jorge_quijano
Just a comment, we have been using the OEE as metric in our plant, what I've seen is that can be misunderstood because a good OEE level does not mean a good machine utilization, let me try to explain this on my own words. I have a HMLV line, so when
Electronics Forum | Sat Oct 20 00:34:57 EDT 2001 | kenbliss
Hi mike The solution is simple but two fold, first your process needs to be changed a bit, you need additional feeders to pre-stage the new P/N run and prestage the extra feeders for reload as certain higher volume components exhaust. The idea is t
Electronics Forum | Sat Apr 28 11:55:39 EDT 2001 | kaoni
Well, I hope I don't offend anyone. I'm brand new to this. I am considering starting my own assembly line to handle my own products but would like to be able to utilize my downtime as an opportunity to keep the machines running by trying to pick up a
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 23 09:53:33 EDT 2005 | PWH
Thanks all for the opinions. Our shuttle/GSM1/PTF install was done by an ex-UIC engineer. Have never utilized shuttle so appreciate the advice on pros and cons of it all. We have 1.0 mil on PTF side and 4.0 on shuttle side. C4 head on both sides
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 07 22:02:52 EDT 2006 | Wave Master Larry
Listen, you should try to utilize wave solder as well. High speed gadgets are fine if you want to make things complictded, but if your just starting things up, think simple. Nothing beats wave for solder many parts at the same time. If you can't p
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 29 09:40:46 EDT 2007 | dphilbrick
We have 2 ovens and 2 wave solder machines using nitrogen. When we were running 2 shifts a day 6 days a week we were spending about $3500 per month. Currently running 1 line 5 days a week we are at about $650 per month. These costs include taxes, tan
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