Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 26 09:27:10 EDT 2000 | Chris May
LarryK, It all depends upon your volume / problem. As Jax says, if this is a repeating problemo, get QA & Purchasing involved. Is it your stores ? Do they receive 100 off and "decant" 20 into a tube (manual handling error, training etc;). From your
Electronics Forum | Sat Sep 23 15:13:40 EDT 2000 | Francois Racine
Hi Sophia, I`m responsible of SMT line and we solved this problem with a complete automatic solder paste printer machine. In the past we had problem with off alignment and solder height too.... at that time we used a semi-auto printer machine and w
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 23 22:38:43 EST 2001 | rpereira
I have recently completed a HUGE screen-printing DOE. I used Taguchi methodology and man I got good results! Here is what I learned for what it's worth: (p.s. to the MPM apps guy I sent a copy to Tim Gillis, Lou Fuda, etc...) EFab vs. Laser: EFab
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 15 16:37:49 EDT 2000 | Dave F
Sounds like someone aimin� fo tha big hurt, if ya axes me. Two spots to place your lawn darts are: 1 J Hwang in "Modern Solder Technology � " states (p.354) that " � extreme CTE mismatch between silicon IC (~2) and the PCB (~16), solder connections
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 22 10:22:59 EDT 2000 | Wolfgang Busko
Mark: The fact that these daughter boards have to be attached to the TSOP-footprints is what makes the thing difficult cause they will be greater than the original part. One could think that a LCC-design allows for proper routing. But when it comes t
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 01 12:10:20 EST 2000 | Jeff
charles, i can appreciate the hand held "reel to reel" scanner as a good solution that is very cost effective. during my smt supervision days we had a number of part loading checks. 1. load plan check, 2. scan check, 3. reel to reel manual check.
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 14 18:24:36 EDT 2000 | Dave F
James: Here's a starting point: 1 www.wwnet.net/~rkroy/wp-inb.html 2 www.sas.com/otherprods/jmp/Home.html 3 www.micromeg.com/ 4 Boeing SQC (avail. from Boeing for $100) is a good little package for DOS machines. 5 For Windows, SPC KISS from Air Aca
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 07 10:22:13 EDT 2000 | genglish
Ramon, I have had experience in the problems you are witnessing. The problem can relate to a number of factors. Obviously the printing process is the first place to start your investigations, try looking at the stencil apertures for bleed under the
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 10 12:14:12 EDT 2000 | Charles
It looks like a giant dpak device but with 5 leads. The problem is that on approx 3% of our boards one more pins are open circuit. It appears that the pins are not in contact with the pads. Board is HASL finish IR oven Paste Koki 953i. If you have a
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 26 10:57:16 EDT 2000 | Steve Schrader
Doug, We've suffered through similar frustrations. One thing we found that might be of some help is uur supplier, unbeknownst to us, was outsourcing their immersion gold. Their supplier apparently lost control of their process for a period of a fe