Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 18 22:23:44 EDT 2001 | davef
First thing, I wouldn't buy new. There's tons of this stuff out there, the problem is finding the used stuff. One place to look is the SMTnet used equipment sales watteverzits called. Roland knows the name. Most work bench suppliers [eg, Arlink,
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 19 17:58:45 EDT 2000 | Darby
Moving Heavy Machinery, We will be reconfiguring four smd lines after some building alterations are completed. What are the latest tricks/tools peolple are using for lining up their production lines. Lumps of 4" x 2" and trolley jacks work fine for t
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 16 03:41:43 EST 2000 | Willem Combrinck
Hi everyone. I'm an industrial engineering student working at a manufacturing company in Cape Town, SA. Recently my boss wanted to know the causes of our downtime in SMT. Things like setups, unscheduled maintenance, debugs etc came up while I was doi
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 16 09:53:42 EST 2000 | JAX
If you have the individual times for each machine you should be done. Simply find which is your bottle-neck for each day and use that info. You can probably write a seperate program to do this step also, I assume you are viewing all the down time inf
Electronics Forum | Sun Nov 19 16:01:18 EST 2000 | Dean
Hi Friend. I recently went through this same project in my factory. Initially, I spent quite a bit of time out on the lines (6) collecting data. After getting an overall idea of where and what the activities were I created forms and work instructio
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 11 00:04:26 EST 2002 | caldon
For the placement CPH you are looking for Manncorp can provide the whole turn key line and support and service the turn key line. "One stop shopping". Conveyors to printers to Placement to AOI to cleaning on to production management software. Please
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 12 13:05:21 EDT 2003 | M Cherry
I'm trying to determine approximately how many SMT lines are in the San Diego area, including Tijuana, Tecate and Mexicali. I don't need actual company names or even type of equipment just number of lines, although the other information would be h
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 09 08:36:13 EST 2002 | marquesj
For Pick & Place machines you have Siemens Machines, visit - http://www.siplace.com They are good machines and they have a nice support For loader and unloader you have Nutek visit, - http://www.nutekholdings.com/A5581E/hpage.nsf/Main!OpenFrameSet
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 10 17:20:25 EST 2002 | Matt Kehoe
Dont forget, if you dont want to print paste and deal with the challenges of placing components in wet paste, solid solder deposit can save you the cost of the stencil printer, while offering better first pass yields than traditional methods. It just
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 09 11:14:39 EST 2002 | stefwitt
I wished, I would get a job like that. Malta is a nice spot! With 1500 Cph you can select any machine on the market, but here are some questions. If you use a glue machine you apparently deal with mixed technology boards. If your volume is that low,
