Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 26 11:26:36 EDT 2004 | rob_thomas
Hi, why don't you call tech support of the manufacturer of your vibratory feeders.They will be able to help you.This is mostly a trial and error kind of adjustment and there are various "tricks" that I've noticed in various assembling plants (i.e. ke
Electronics Forum | Thu May 06 10:21:09 EDT 2004 | Rob
Let me pose this scenario and ask your opinion. My manufacturing plant is located in New Orleans. Since summer is close upon us, the humidity in my SMT room where the machines and components reside get around 30-50%RH. I've got this Siemens waffle ch
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 31 09:04:56 EST 2005 | gregf912
I agree with you on the service issue. Fuji service can be a little strange from the Japanese Service engineers and the Service department at Fuji America has been cut very lean. I have been involved with SMT production for 20 years from Automation E
Electronics Forum | Mon May 24 03:11:05 EDT 2004 | snmsmt
Hi everyone, I'm new to this Forum and still a young'n the electronics manufacturing industry so be gently on me :p I'm currently trialing different solder pastes with our small 5 stage oven and I am having wetting issues with a particular paste. C
Electronics Forum | Mon May 24 15:45:58 EDT 2004 | mleber
I am interested in how Military / Class 3 manufacturers are handling Gold SMT components. We are receiving an increasing number of tape and reel components that are gold plated. Per J-STD we need to tin all gold components. Are parts being removed fr
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 01 19:42:46 EDT 2004 | Ken
The biggest fear is mixing the solder pastes and bar solder. Had a training program for teaching folks what the alloys are and how to read them. I have locked up the bar solder and use the buddy system to restock the pot. Put up many signs on le
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 03 20:15:23 EDT 2004 | Ken
My Machine guy was a 4 year ex-quad Service Engineer. Prior to that he spent 6 years in a CM programming and servicing quads from QX toQ3c/4c q100 series. These are opinions. Nothing more. I have noticed that the smallest players in the market
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 09 16:52:16 EDT 2004 | Cary Chang
Dear Mira: I had some assembly operation in Manuas before, You can find out the company name and telephone number in the attached web address. From the telephone list of the Manuas electronics companies which you can call them. some of them you can c
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 04 09:25:24 EDT 2004 | dana
We are presently in the process of selecting an AOI manufacturer for our facility. We are mainly HMLV (mixed technology). I've investigated several including MVP, VI, Yes Tech etc... They all give a good presentation, but I would like to get input fr
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 14 21:02:50 EDT 2004 | hap
it is not practical to target an exactly 1 mil film thickness, the materials manufacturers do not give an exact solid content figure but only a target range. temperature and batch preparation also play a small role. You could probably target 1 mil p