Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 14 11:53:09 EDT 2008 | slthomas
How much cost do you absorb in touchup and replacing missing parts, and how does it compare to the cost of operating a reflow oven that runs whenever you have product available to process? I don't necessarily have an answer for you but I'm having a
Electronics Forum | Fri May 30 17:20:53 EDT 2003 | jonfox
Is this setup charge the cost of purchasing the required materials? I left that out of my previous post. As far as manufacturing cost, usually they add up the cost of machine time (leased or owned), operator time (wage based), and the size of the o
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 10 08:43:10 EST 2006 | jax
There is no set formula. You need to customize this number around your operation. Depending on how you account for: Capital Equipment Costs Utilities Building Costs Overhead services Consumables ( Flux, Paste, Glue, ...... ) Once you get the costs
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 02 10:02:03 EDT 2018 | emeto
Now you are going too deep. Purchasing should have nothing to do with your placement cost. Reducing part numbers too. These are separate processes and should be evaluated separately. You have: 1. Machine time and cost -utilities -maintenance -consu
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 08 11:49:44 EST 1998 | Dave F
All Y'All: A recent (10/98) article in "Circuits Assembly" magazine touted the use batch cleaners using a aqueous alcohol solvent. Reported benefits of this approach were: 1 Better use of floor space 2 Ability to develop custom recipes 3 Ability
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 28 13:25:43 EST 2002 | Mike Konrad
Hi Dave, No-clean paste is more difficult to remove in post-reflow cleaning applications. In stencil, misprint and tool cleaning applications however, no-clean paste poses no extra degree of cleaning difficulty. There are few special requirement
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 01 16:18:16 EDT 2002 | davef
Q1: Is this [paste in hole] feasible? A1: Yes, many people lower their operating cost by reflowing through hole components. Q2: What types of components are difficult to do this way [paste in hole]? A2: Types of through hole components that are d
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 12 23:53:24 EDT 1999 | Dean
| Hey guys, | We are opening our new shop in a hotel and would like to hear your inputs. We will be providing contract manufacturing as well as equipment sales from this location. It will be mostly for the surface mount side of our business
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 01 15:18:01 EDT 2018 | SMTA-Shafiq
Hello All, I'm looking at performing a cost analysis to calculate cost per placement at SMT. I've read articles and many suggest simplifying it to labour cost (hourly rate x # of operators) / # of placements per hour. Other angle to this is evalua
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 15 10:09:24 EST 2002 | PeteC
The Electrovert AquaJet w/ Closed-Loop runs like $63K to $107, depending on the AJ config. The AJ is like the only batch machine I've seen that is not a glorified dish washer. Justification depends on your application. The batch system takes less spa
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