Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 27 09:26:43 EDT 1999 | Chrys Shea
| | | Hey MoonMan, | | | | | | Did I catch in one of your fabulous threads that you're using Tetra stencils? I'm anxious to find out how you're liking them. | | | | | | We we're all set up to go to Tetras, then mgt decided to close down our factor
Electronics Forum | Thu May 07 18:30:24 EDT 2015 | comatose
Planned: End of day, Out of parts, Someone forgot to queue up another magazine Unplanned: Part mis-pick, Stencil printer 2d inspection failure, Conveyor or mag handler jammed
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 26 12:06:08 EDT 2007 | basem
$100K for this entire line. We are thinking of getting a Chinese made reflow oven that looks pretty good at $25K. Also, we need to deposit solder using a dispenser as stencil printing will be reserved only for higher volume boards. It will not be pra
Electronics Forum | Sat Dec 18 18:29:16 EST 1999 | M Cox
Clarissa Even with a sound support team, buying used equipment is always risky. Some things to consider 1) Call the manufacturer, and make sure they still support the equipment, Parts and Technical. 2) Look at the machines with somebody who knows t
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 20 13:39:08 EST 1999 | Wolfgang Busko
Hi Clarissa, seems to be a real start up situation you are in. For the printing there is IMO no need to buy any sophisticated automatic-vision-alignment-self-cleaning-inline-and-more-machine. Features you need: - adjustable in X-,Y-,Z-axis (individu
Electronics Forum | Sat Jul 24 00:04:55 EDT 1999 | Scott McKee
| | | There is a practise within the industry of an Inspector inspecting a board, and that same Inspector performing touch-up. My opinion is that the Inspection and Touch-up operations should be separate functions whereby the Inspector is not perform
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 15 09:41:11 EDT 2002 | soupatech
I am experimenting with 2 types, FG256 17x17mm and FG456 23x23mm both with a 1mm pitch and .5mm ball. They both have a full array. As for as the x-ray, we are looking into pruchasing some used equipment but will mostly send them out for testing until
Electronics Forum | Wed May 13 13:22:39 EDT 2015 | cohlmann
Hello Everyone. We are setting up our first SMT line and are looking for recommendations on printers and reflow ovens. Currently most of our manufacturing is outsourced and we want the ability to manufacture all of our products in-house. One impor
Electronics Forum | Sun Jun 07 02:06:26 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| Earl, | As always, I am interested in what you have to say, but I am still a little vague on your application of ANSI Y14.5 as it relates to the manufacturability of an assembled printed circuit board. Are you implying that component placement coor
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 13 09:43:16 EDT 2007 | lococost
wow, never heard of such a thing! Are you sure it's allways different types of material? Are you using a washer that isnt cleaned regular? I would check your product step by step, from bare PCB to finished product to find out where exactly in your