Electronics Forum | Sun Mar 02 17:40:02 EST 2003 | MA/NY DDave
Hi It sounds like you are in a different country or in the USA a long time ago. I have no idea of the process either is using, so they can be comparable or one can be better than another and lop sided compared to other places. Benchmarking I think
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 03 12:14:33 EST 2003 | testing
I am trying to optimise the use of our Automatic Optical Inspection Machines. As the data we collect from the machine is mainly of the attribute type (Pass/fail, Defect1, Defect2, etc), what advice can you provide to improve its use as well as using
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 25 11:32:15 EST 2003 | MA/NY DDave
Hi Kevin, Well I or we, used to do this all the time in PiH or THT days with some small hand forming tools (dies) and also some automated ones. You already have gotten the phone numbers for a couple of the small electronic assembly hand tools place
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 29 22:13:08 EST 2004 | davef
OK, I've got it. Here's what you should do: * Call your friendly, local electronic contract assembly shop. * Tell them that you are "Joe College", you currently build pin through hole boards, but want to start using SMT, and that you want to conside
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 06 11:36:15 EDT 2004 | russ
I see how that works in your shop, I was thinking of when you have someone else do it for you and then both sides would have to be done at the same time and then double reflow isn't very viable with out glue. How do you flatten the solder after refl
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 06 11:11:37 EST 2006 | devgru
Just my two cents, but our findings were that the Yestech system was more in-line with our type of high mix, mid volume manufacturing. In my research, I found the Yestech to be the most favored for our applications, with most contract shops I talked
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 03 09:58:20 EDT 2007 | stepheniii
And that's better because? I think the guy that thought this up has never been to a board shop or knows what is involved with plating. Why does he think it's the board shops that will disappear? Maybe they will simply build the board over the compon
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 19 17:44:22 EDT 2007 | russ
there are IPC standards, I do not know them all off hand. What are the boards failing for? I have found that sometimes the original design is not optimum for any number of reasons. Some fab shops catch these and correct and may or may not inform yo
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 09 08:32:11 EDT 2008 | davef
In our shop, a very large portion of the mistakes in the shop have their genesis with someone one other than the person making the mistake. Often, it is a chain of events that lead to the mistake. How do your picture posting systems drill down to de
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 10 14:19:51 EDT 2008 | stepheniii
Root cause analysis is simply looking for what caused a problem, then looking for what caused that, and so on, until you reach someone you don't like, or can pass the buck onto. I don't see why Vlad's method is better than tweaking your knobs until y