Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 30 13:09:08 EST 2006 | bvdb
The cover tape that seals the parts into the reels on our feeders always uncovers a few parts (up to ten 0805 parts) before the part can be picked. So removing a partial reel always results in the loss of a few parts. Putting a partial reel back on
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 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 | 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 12:51:23 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 | 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 | 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 | Thu Mar 30 13:15:31 EST 2006 | jdengler
This will depend on the feeder design. Some feeders cause a loss of several components when removing a reel from a feeder. If yours do not, the operator should be able to leave enough tape and mylar cover tape for this reel to be put back onto a fe
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 12 19:04:46 EDT 2006 | ted nguyen
Don't know if this applies to you, but here's my 2 cents. We just pick up what parts from that reel that falls off with mylar take and tape it right to the reel. That way, you can use it for rework or whenever you need spare parts. As for the tear do
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