Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 18 14:22:39 EDT 2002 | eedllc
I agree with Steve Huey, as a former Field Engineer and Asian Customer service manager living in Hong Kong for almost 10 years with little blue, there has been an incremental hit on all of the OEM's combined profits.They needed a strategy and some sc
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 14 13:19:15 EDT 2002 | mjabure
The first question is, is this a high mix, low volume environment or vice versa? If it's the former then Kens solution is something you might want to look into. Depending on your feeder set up you might check to see if your operators have been traine
Electronics Forum | Thu May 29 17:48:00 EDT 2003 | jonfox
As far as I know, the limitations apply to to the manufacturing components, not the equipment per say. At this point there is no set date for the US at the national level. Basically our government is run by big businesses and their effect on our na
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 12 09:36:57 EDT 2004 | wgaffubar
Russ, These are the pb free components that you mentioned that are coming around the bend. Not the old CBGA's. I use to use CBGA's alot with former company. These are 15 x 15 mm plastic BGA's with 14 mil pg free solder balls going on 8 mil gold pads.
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 02 16:33:08 EDT 2004 | davem
Fuji is the best, but there are other alternatives besides Quad. If you really want to look at Fuji, take a peek at their XP142E series. With "Vision processing on the fly" and a "Mini Turret Head" with 12 placement nozzles it should fit your needs n
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 13 09:55:44 EST 2005 | fasst1
Rob, I actually work for Philips / Assembleon. We have had machines out in the field for 18+ years that are still in production. The customer I mentioned has had the gear for 4 years. They also do multiple changeovers every day, and each one take
Electronics Forum | Sun May 21 09:38:25 EDT 2006 | davef
Epoxy Removal and IC Delidding [Hardware Hacking: Have Fun While Voiding Your Warranty, Chapter 14] Encapsulation of critical components using epoxy or other adhesives is commonly done to prevent tampering and device access (the microprocessor shown
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 24 18:21:30 EDT 2007 | flipit
Hi, The verbiage states lead finish on components and not solder used in assembly. I have found nothing that states that Swatch got an exemption. Although the 650 micron pitch spec seems to have come from the data Swatch presented in their execpti
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 04 10:49:23 EDT 2008 | arbarr
The the HDD onwindows 2000 pc running Fuji Flexa for 5 m/c's on our smt assembly line died 2 weeks ago. We've since reinstalled a new HDD. To cut along story short Fuji via their agent here (Productivity Partners Formerly Astro) after 14 days do
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 05 17:54:42 EDT 2008 | iantech
The the HDD onwindows 2000 pc running Fuji Flexa > for 5 m/c's on our smt assembly line died 2 weeks > ago. We've since reinstalled a new HDD. To cut > along story short Fuji via their agent here > (Productivity Partners Formerly Astro) after
