Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 12 11:36:29 EDT 2006 | scott
I have a few used MPM SPM Printers available and I'm concidering buying one of them. I'm interested in the actual year each was built. Can any owners who know what year they bought their machine (new) provide me with their Serial Number & year purc
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 12 12:47:07 EDT 2006 | james
I am looking for a Surface Mount Machine that can handle a board that is 24 inches long and 7.5 inches wide. Please if anyone has suggestions, they are greatly appreciated. Also must be able to handle over 50 feeders of various sizes. Thanks
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 14 09:29:08 EDT 2006 | Steve Pollo0ck
James, is the board 24" long or print area. Essemtec offers a printer the SP900 with a 23.93" x 21.25" print area. http://www.essemtec.com/e/147.php here is the link to our website with a video. It is sold and supported in the US by Essemtec USA. it
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 13 12:42:48 EDT 2006 | russ
much prefer using percentage instead of fixed overage. Example.... A run needs 100,000 parts, (1% shrink is 1000 parts!) you want to only issue 60 over? I recommend 2% for popcorn and exact for retrievable/ identifiable parts like sticks and trays
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 15 10:20:26 EDT 2006 | russ
Yes indeed you make great point as well, we also run low volume production as well as some high running stuff, seems as though some type of combo nwould be best, maybe something like 20 pieces over or 2% wichever is greater maybe? Russ
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 18 10:40:15 EDT 2006 | SWAG
Depending on what kinds of machines you run and feeder style, self adhering leaders work well to minimize the need for a long leader. We use them on every reel. We can generally load most feeders with only waste of about 4 parts by use of leaders (
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 22 17:36:35 EDT 2006 | mika
A bunch of thanks guys, we will take this in consideration. BTW, we will not go for the v-grove in the panel (2x8 boards + the extra cut of areas). The board house recommended us to go for braces/hinges, since this thin pcb-panel could easily break w
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 14 07:59:47 EDT 2006 | davef
We're guessing you are not the RoHS police. On one hand, your customer knows their business better than you do. On the other hand, getting all the issues with RoHS correct is complicated. So, maybe this was an oversight. Consider telling your cus
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 14 08:40:06 EDT 2006 | russ
you as a contract manufacturer are not responsible for your customers product. If you are not selling to them under false pretense of RoHS compliance you are fine, it will be your customer that is non-compliant. So if you build a board that is non
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 14 11:50:40 EDT 2006 | dougs
I'd say you build as they ask but you must have written confirmation of what they wish you to do. One thing to remember is that it's not illegal to make non rohs compliant products, it's only illegal to sell them in certain markets, your not to know
