Electronics Forum | Sat Nov 07 03:06:03 EST 1998 | Gary Simbulan
| | | What are you people using to store component reels and tubes in? I am looking for a cabinet with slots or something to store reels and tubes. We keep our components on the production floor near the machines. The cabinets we are using now are
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 01 09:39:35 EST 2002 | stefwitt
Improving the control process may be not top priority of the machine vendors. In the mean time, investigate how the operators make these errors: Are the same part numbers on the reel, or do you have to use the BOM to translate the part number on the
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 01 16:51:19 EST 2002 | Bob
One thing to bear in mind when bar coding, make sure that the reel taken off and the new reel being put on is bar coded. What I have seen previously is that operators bar code the same reel twice, for them it is easier, but does will not always catc
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 02 09:24:15 EDT 2003 | johnpatricelli
Did not do the verification of replenishing reels at the last company I was with, and it bit us hard on a 300+ piece build, over 30 placements per board on 0603 size (if I remember right) were built right on 7 boards, then they ran out of reel 1, and
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 03 07:24:44 EST 2004 | paul_bmc
I was also looking into purchasing a tape and reel machine. I started looking at Q-Corporations QMT-1250 machine. What I found though was that one of the major costs was the supplies. A lot of suppliers require you to purchase a minimum quantity o
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 14 07:54:05 EDT 2004 | modwyer
Folks, At the moment I bake all BGA that are in unsealed trays, to reduce moisture etc. Is this common practice or are there particular manufacturuers that cause more problems. Also, the tape for BGA tape & reel has a hole in the tape (as is normal
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 22 08:06:13 EDT 2005 | gregp
Hello Rob, We have reel hangers on our feeders as opposed to "buckets". The reels cannot be removed while the feeder is mounted to the machine. Thus splicing is not currently an option. As mentioned above, we felt that it is easier to remove the f
Electronics Forum | Mon May 08 09:52:09 EDT 2006 | charles Stringer
We currently use Siplace P & P machines and in the main prefer to pick SOIC ICs from stick vibratory feeders. Our reason for this is that we can fit 3 stick fed devices into the same space as one reel fed SOIC. This reduces the amount of setup we hav
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 04 16:29:39 EST 2008 | tonyamenson
I have been trying to eliminate the troublesome tubed parts in our SMT process but because we are a high mix/low-medium volume we still have to deal with it sometimes. However, the ones I can fix I'm working on. The next step in my war against tubes
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 06 09:48:24 EST 2008 | mainenetservices
Tony, We have a splicing service that would enable you to take a reel of 1,000 to 5,000 components and splice it down onto reels of 100, 250, 500, etc. parts for use in production. The price is $10 per splice and there is a set-up charge of $100 but
