Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 23 14:15:34 EST 2006 | billyd
Has anyone experienced any type of rush by customers to go Pb free? I mean, I see a huge rush for all the CM's to get their ducks in a row, but I haven't seen any push from any other part of the industry to get moving on it. We do a few lead free ite
Electronics Forum | Sat Mar 11 11:10:05 EST 2006 | eolparts
Hello All, I sent Grant an e-mail and I wanted to share with you. My name is Jim Schreiber and I am the product mgr at EOL Parts Inc. We have access to over 1000+ OEM and CEM excess/surplus inventories that we use on a regular basis to pass on cost
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 29 09:40:26 EST 2006 | kevslatvin
Thanks for the replies.With which ever machine we decide on the feeders with the most commonly used parts will stay on the machine. Also parts used on other jobs but not needed for the current one will be able to stay as well. The problem well run in
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 29 18:20:07 EST 2006 | LD
We are also a high mix/low volume OEM and are running Samsung CP45's with quick change carts on both sides of the machine. We currently average 12 minutes of internal changeover time per run with an average of 17 changeovers/day for 2 shifts. We ty
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 19 10:23:47 EDT 2006 | George
If you are not OEM I would evaluate a chosen laser machine carefully. If possible, go and run some PCB's yourself at the manufacture's place before you jump into conclusions. If your work orders are small and very different, it might take a while for
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 12 13:08:20 EDT 2006 | jbrower
Howdy Bolos, My question to you is why do you feel the need to buy new equipment? We've changed over our processes to lead free and used our existing equipment. Heller 1500 (5 zone convection reflow) Electrovert econopak (wave solder) Honestly we hav
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 27 16:29:28 EDT 2006 | Board House
There was a good artical on this in Assembly Magazine October 5, 2005 by Donald P. Cullen, Director of OEM and Assembly Applications, MacDermid Inc., Waterbury, CT Heres the Link http://www.assemblymag.com/CDA/Archives/56840a86f06c9010VgnVCM10000
Electronics Forum | Sun Jul 30 12:55:13 EDT 2006 | fastek
Grant- I'm not sure when it gets to the point when egos begin to over-ride productivity but at some point it does. I remember working at a large OEM builder of NIC cards back in the early 90's. We had a line manager for each line per shift, (5 line
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 14 10:08:00 EDT 2006 | Paul@Boxborough
sant, When I worked in contract manufacturing, I used Air Vac or SRT systems which are rather large units. They are great for larger boards and BGA's. In my OEM life, I prefer smaller desk top units, which are more adapted to small boards with small
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 04 13:47:20 EDT 2006 | pemea1
apples to apples. 20 boards 80 parts top and 10 parts bottom. these boards are done on a semi regular basis (you know the boards are coming to you from an OEM at least three times a month, just no exact schedule). All that is required is pasting..mo
