Electronics Forum | Tue May 13 11:40:59 EDT 2008 | vms
Helo Since we had designed a screen printer, we have a good idea of the process. There is one thing that we did that you may want to consider. We were going to sell the printers with a complete list of the components and where the customer could bu
Electronics Forum | Tue May 13 12:15:47 EDT 2008 | locostpp
Harry, thanks for your comments. Certainly circuit diagrams where appropriate and mechanical schematics of complex parts like the head would be useful to the end user. We are working hard to eliminate relays and switches from the unit, and things
Electronics Forum | Thu May 15 23:13:26 EDT 2008 | sarason
The Essemtec has a very cheap to manufacture feeder which you could adapt, or try one of the feeders that remove the tape by "ploughing" it off. Can't recall the brand right now. They are well made, but very cheap to make. The laser gets you speed. T
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 04 15:06:35 EDT 2008 | locostpp
Hi Base, I guess your right - due to the complexity of the software we plan on keeping the source code under our control BUT we will not be dongling or protecting it in any other way and we will be publishing the program on our website. We will pub
Electronics Forum | Tue May 13 08:47:38 EDT 2008 | locostpp
Yes, this is a good point and really only time will tell just how reliable such a machine becomes. What I'm aiming for is to simplify and reduce the number of sub-assemblies. For example we are building the camera/vision processor and lighting into
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 04 17:47:51 EST 2009 | locostpp
Q3/2009 been and gone. We are moving forward with low cost p&p, quite a few things have changed. We are applying for a number of patents for the feeders, placement head design, servo design, calibration system , etc... We now expect the price of t
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 18 14:42:38 EST 2010 | djsmith1000
Hi everyone, First post here. I am completely new to smt as well. We are a small startup and would like improve our in-house smt assembly capability from manual assembly. We are looking at small production runs, initially about a total of 200 board
Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 12 19:48:47 EDT 2010 | bootstrap
I like what you're doing. 20 years ago anyone, hobbyists and tiny garage-shop companies could create electronics devices just as sophisticated and cool as big corporations. Today, SMT has largely trashed the creativity (and competition) that existe
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 29 08:29:21 EDT 2008 | davef
Beyond the materials cost, one approach to estimating the cost of assembling a board is: 1 Direct cost * Determine the processes required to assemble the board * Separate parts on BOM according to process * Multiply number of parts in each process by
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 11 04:08:52 EDT 2008 | janet200701
we want to estimate the price of assemblyng a > board that contain both SMD and THT component . > and also we have the BOM file of this board . > please help me There is 3part on the cost: 1. PCB cost 2.Assembly cost 3.components cost. If you w
