Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 26 11:40:10 EDT 2007 | CL
Good Morning, We have a 3D solder paste inspection machine. We purchased it on a recommendation from a consultant. We are a CM high mix low volume. The President of my company has attended some seminars and meetings where it was conveyed to her that
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 02 12:42:58 EDT 2003 | slthomas
Not sure how else to describe this. We've received some boards (1/2" x 3.5" x .0325" board built on panels of 24) with numerous resistors showing separation of the solder from the metallization at the top of the joint. There are 26 0805's on the bo
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 26 10:07:06 EDT 2007 | realchunks
Hi Dub J, I have worked for a few companies that did 3D sampling and found the data they produce to be useless. In the real world they are slow, so that means you won't sample every board. Now if you're not sampling every board, and you start to r
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 25 06:14:14 EDT 2000 | Adam
Guys A question regarding design rules of a WSC.We are currently running a high volume product, and as usual the design layout is as such where half the through hole connectors are perpendicular to the wave, and surprise,surpise the other half are'n
Electronics Forum | Fri May 21 15:50:41 EDT 1999 | John Thorup
We are running a number of boards with 8-10 25 mil PQFPs on board. Our process is mature with at least 3 years experiance and statistically few opens on the QFPs. Our beloved purchasing department has chased the almighty $ and changed FAB vendors
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 15 10:44:49 EDT 2003 | MA/NY DDave
Hi, Although I grit my teeth it does sound like a normal process engineer or engineering situation. Here you are with knowledge and ways to get knowledge of best practices and No One listens. ----- Now I have a cleanliness testing joke (real sto
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 12 11:52:59 EST 2003 | Marc Simmel
I have encountered problems with a 90/10 tin-lead plated SMT component wicking all the solder paste off the pads on the substrate. Worst, the defect occurs randomly - adjacent leads may have 'good' joints, though heel fillets are poor. The solder pa
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 22 19:43:43 EST 2003 | Dean
I have seen this affect on Immersion Tin and OSP. 70 to 90 % of the solder wicks to the lead and forms a "single" homogenous solder mass. This even though the pad was 100 % covered with paste... Evaluated different solder paste...did find variatio
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 10 13:16:17 EDT 2000 | Bob Willis
Here is some thing that I wrote a while back on solder beading. First what is a Solder Bead? The term solder bead is used to differentiate it from solder balls. A solder bead is a solder ball but its location is normally constant unlike solder bal
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 30 10:37:11 EDT 1999 | Boca
We are wave soldering some fabs with a lot of unmasked trace area along the edges. The trace area is solid copper covered with tin / lead, no masking, no components along the edges, same on solder side and component side (goofy board design). Inste
