Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 05 11:21:33 EDT 2006 | samir
At my 2nd company, I had a design EE come down, look at his product running down the line, looks at the reflow oven... He scoffs sarcastically...and then says, "What the hells so hard about this...you're just running it through an oven." Process an
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 05 11:44:04 EDT 2006 | Rob
We had one mechanical engineer from a certain customer telling us we had to crop components leads so they didn't protrude through the board, as they could then come in contact with the case as the board was flush. Had I have known then what I know
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 05 12:31:47 EDT 2006 | SWAG
I feel your pain - we do the same. My favorite: no extra panels or boards for profile and due to the fact that we're behind on an order, a first article of a fairly complicated board goes from 10 to an order for 500. Myself and production takes th
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 05 16:26:51 EDT 2006 | flipit
I had one SMT process engineer using rubber bands to hold a connector on second side reflow. Even the operators told him he was nuts. The zero stick through on leaded devices has come up several times for me. We clip leads first and pin in paste t
Electronics Forum | Sat Jul 08 20:11:20 EDT 2006 | Dick Koriska
I was once like that, worked for a major telecom manufacturer, couldn't design my way out of a paper bag, and now I'm making wooden pallets. My latest project is analysing the forces required to drive a nail into a plywood wooden pallet.
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 05 10:54:26 EDT 2006 | slaine
In the last couple of weeks ive been working with a new mechanical design engineer, i knew things were going to be difficult when i caught him putting a trial through a reflow oven using loctight thread lock to hold a smd led in place. but today i ha
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 18 12:35:11 EDT 2000 | Steve Thomas
Thanks for all your replies, folks. yes, I've read Chry's detailed description more than once (I too wish I could SEE it done rather than read about it), but even in following it I ran into problems. I was making it much more difficult on myself th
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 05 11:37:38 EDT 2006 | dougs
I my last company i had to battle all the time for tooling to set up jobs, i asked the product engineering manager to include extra panels in the costs for NPI to be used as reflow profiling panels, he told me they had never needed these before and t
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 10 16:00:43 EDT 2006 | samir
QE's are the guys that sit in meetings asking the process guys --- "Uhhmmmm....my pie chart here says that we have 11 solder shorts on U1 for the week. WHAT'RE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT?" Unfortunately, most QE's dress nice, are tall, have gelled slic
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 12 23:29:23 EDT 2006 | KEN
Ah yes Mechanical Engineers. My previous company hired one Fresh out of College. Ink was still wet on his B.S. degree when he entered the shop. I passed by his desk. He had a CAD drawing on the monitor which he was feverously working on. It showe
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