Electronics Forum | Sat Apr 03 19:58:53 EST 2004 | Ken
I have used tooling holes and fiucial registration since the late '80's. In fact if your maximum "vision" tolerance is +/- 0.05mm, your in the same ball-park as locating pins. It is true that fiducial registration is more accurate. However, I woul
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 02 09:50:40 EST 2004 | cedams
Yup. It was definitely checking the fiducials as well as the block skip marks and it used to work pretty well. What it did was started at the center of where the fiducial should be and scanned left. When it found a change in contrast it scanned righ
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 12 09:39:38 EDT 2004 | cedams
Ken, Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately (or fortunately) I am in Mexico and we make our own PCBs. That is another conversation entirely and another of my fix-it projects but currently we drill the PCBs and align the artwork to the holes visually
Electronics Forum | Mon May 14 03:21:20 EDT 2001 | Eyal Duzy
Phil, In the considerations you make for choosing an AOI tool, you should check what a vendor delivers today and what will it be able to deliver in the future. As the role of AOI in the SMT production line evolves from "detection" to "prevention"
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 26 10:59:43 EST 2007 | jseagle
We have a small 2mm square solid white box silkscreened on each board for badmark recognition. You may be able to do the reverse of putting something like "white out" in a specific area to act as a badmark.
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 22 15:45:57 EDT 2010 | hsodan
Should it not be quite easy to center the part with laser (and faster)?
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 23 11:12:47 EST 2000 | TMV
This note is in response to your question about not being able to recognize a component that is running on a 4796 but has problems on a 4791. The 4791 and 4796 used two different recognition systems and the lighting calibration will be not be the s
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 23 11:12:47 EST 2000 | TMV
This note is in response to your question about not being able to recognize a component that is running on a 4796 but has problems on a 4791. The 4791 and 4796 used two different recognition systems and the lighting calibration will be not be the s
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 26 10:35:58 EST 2007 | slthomas
We've been using fids as badmarks on panelized boards, with reverse recognition so that an uncovered fiducial is a good mark. It's worked fine with 1.5mm fiducials but now we've run into problems with a board with 1mm fids and we can NOT get it to wo
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 26 14:13:55 EST 2007 | wayne123
I am not completely sure why it would tell you "board will not be populated" and then build it anyway, but if the only difference between the two programs (working one, not working one) is the fiducials are smaller, did you try reducing the search ar
