Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 16 01:01:24 EDT 2003 | kenBliss
Pete Con Keeping the reels resident on the Agilis feeders is one of the key points of the feeder design. The critical points are to make changing feeders very quick less than 20 seconds per change out. You should have all your feeders on reels sta
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 27 00:45:35 EDT 2003 | kenBliss
Bman Each area and process has a unique machine for a reason. Professional engineers at the various OEM�s have thought these things through and there are specific reasons why you don't wash stencils in a board washer, bake pizzas in your reflow ove
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 26 12:02:16 EDT 2003 | kenBliss
While your setting up that site to bash the OEM equipment companies please set one up for all the bad used equipment dealers that sell equipment with no warranty and turns out to be a lemon so the customer has to call the OEM to get a contract to get
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 21 14:23:56 EDT 2003 | kenBliss
In order to service your wave solder machine safely, the following needs to be understood. Ladling dross out of the machine and putting it in into a coffee can or similar is not safe and puts operators and other employees at risk. Protecting the se
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 19 13:16:15 EDT 2002 | kenbliss
Some things to consider 1. can one operator keep up with manual operations and not slow the line down? If yes, great. If no you will need a way to allow more than one operator access to the next board coming down the line to not create a bottleneck.
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 10 16:29:34 EST 2003 | kenBliss
You can call it anything you want. At the end of the day what matters is what you are able to produce in a given period, say 8 hours. How many components where placed during that time. Most engineers do not fully understand that there is generally
Electronics Forum | Sat May 31 14:33:59 EDT 2003 | kenBliss
CAL Here is another perspective. Ask what is included in the setup costs, ie. programming, stencils, setting up part number bins, bill of materials, changeover time on the line etc, etc. Then ask how much time and costs the CM is allowing for each
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 31 01:12:57 EDT 2003 | kenBliss
I have spoken with Ray Sharp CEO of Cookson a few times in the last year. He like virtually all other CEO�s has had to make very tough choices in business. I do not think I agree with Dave F�s comments, I think a multiple product company can do ver
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 08 18:00:34 EDT 2003 | kenBliss
Hi Bman At the risk of coming off as a �sales type�, you appear to be looking for a solution provider and probably opinions on your ideas. Regarding your method mentioned, This is not the most efficient way to run a stockroom but will work and will
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 22 12:47:01 EDT 2002 | kenbliss
Hi Yngwie I am not sure where you are trying to go with your questions, but it appears you are looking for a way to monitor how productive your production lines are running. With the assumption that these are SMT lines your are running you should f
