Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 09 08:28:04 EDT 1998 | Stefan W.
| I am attempting to locate a kit to be used on surface mount equipment to determine the placement capability (CPk). Does anyone have information on where to purchase such a kit? Ideally this kit should be usable on placement equipment from various
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 07 12:11:22 EDT 1998 | Dave F
| I would like to do a fair evaluation of the costs involved in outsourcing PCB assembly work vs. the costs of keeping the work in-house. If anyone could recommend articles, text-books, or cost models that address this, I would be truly grateful. |
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 13 13:35:38 EDT 1998 | Mike Cox
| I am looking for information on any Gage R&R studies for the CyberOptics LSM solder paste inspection system. If you are a current user of one of these systems, are you finding any problems with the repeatability due to operator variation? What is
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 07 10:14:43 EDT 1998 | RWW
| I'm currently running a double sided paste smt board loaded with 0603's, on the secondary side. Many of the 0603 devices tombstone during reflow if the parts are not perfectly centered on the pads. Is this caused by the .008 foil thickness? Has any
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 23 07:33:28 EDT 1998 | The Wretched SMD
200 boards/Hr and oven will reflow ~180 boards/Hr but the P&P machine will only place 700-950 CPH when setup is taken into account. Minimum pitch is normally .020" and we place an Avg. of 491 TSSOPs and 217 BGAs a month. We don't even bother with 04
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 14 10:19:22 EDT 1998 | Ben Salisbury
| | Hi, | I'm an SMT tech in a major OEM in Scotland and we have just purchased two Fuji QP's. Does anybody out there have a list of do's and don'ts especialy regarding preventative maintenance and common faults. Jim- I Haven't used the QP's yet
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 18 12:15:58 EDT 1998 | Bill Schreiber
Dear Maurice, Alcohol is a very "vertically oriented" cleaner. It cleans only a selected few types of solder paste. There are also numerous reports of fires and explosions associated with alcohol stencil cleaners. Plus, alcohol stencil cleaners us
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 17 17:09:36 EDT 1998 | Gary Rojo
| I am involved in the purchasing decision (Technical side) of which placement machine to buy. One of the criteria we need to specify is how many feeders, and what sizes. I have a provitional parts list of a job that we are most likly going to build.
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 17 08:28:51 EDT 1998 | Steve Schrader
| I am involved in the purchasing decision (Technical side) of which placement machine to buy. One of the criteria we need to specify is how many feeders, and what sizes. I have a provitional parts list of a job that we are most likly going to build.
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 11 21:30:22 EDT 1998 | Grant Petty
I am looking at purchaseing a full convection bench top oven from OK Industrys. (Model JEM-310) It seems to have all the features that we will need for low volume production runs. It has a Nitrogen input option, and I am intrested if anyone on the fo
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