Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 09 18:43:54 EDT 2008 | mowens
Hello everyone, I'm a long time reader of the forums but this will be my first time posting and seeking help. Here's our situation, we have a small pick and place it places about 1800 parts per hour. It is a good R/D proto machine, but it is quic
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 07 14:58:08 EST 2008 | operator
We don't have one of those cool air compressed syringes to dispense adhesive. We have to do it by hand. My question is does anyone have any suggestions on syringe size, needle size etc... for successful deposition of SMT adhesive? I know you can go s
Electronics Forum | Tue May 26 14:39:40 EDT 2009 | boloxis
QFN or MLFs are mainstream now, QFNs already evloved to much more complex versions now like matrix pins, stacked dice and flipchip versions. IPC 610D already includes them, just make sure the pins have solder plating, the PWB pads have soldermask in
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 12 09:26:00 EDT 2016 | awhite
Our MPM Up2000 HIE is having a communication problem with any upstream machine we place in front of it...i.e. conveyor, board loader, etc. It all started when we removed a conveyor from inbetween it and a board loader, and hooked those machines up di
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 04 19:33:16 EDT 2002 | rob_thomas
Dave's estimation is pretty conservative but there is a lot of equipment out there and a lot of people happy to make a sale.Implementing both mentioned processes it's difficult and time consuming .Even if you get good training from whoever sells you
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 28 12:35:38 EDT 2001 | seand
Hello Paul, Without all of the specific details of your product I would recommend providing the BOMs and samples to a couple of vendors and have them prove their capabilities. The Siplace platform is a solid platform for your application and the ap
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 11 19:07:16 EST 2005 | primus
We are also looking for AOI machines, pre- and post-reflow. We already tried one machine from the UK (I don't remember the name, I perfer to forget we ever had it) and they told is it would do everything we wanted. Maybe so, but not well enough. It s
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 19 21:44:20 EDT 2007 | rfrog
The first thing that I would do is contact the smock manufacturer and ask them for advice on testing the smocks. ESD FROM A TO Z 2nd ed. (Kolyer) states that: smocks should have a resistivity of less than 10^12/sq and must not shed steel fibers.
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 23 13:08:26 EDT 2008 | slthomas
Put the new stuff in the back and pull from the front. A pass through from stores makes that a lot easier. Bar codes are a wonderful thing if you can get people to use them. Wand it into stores then wand it sequentially into production via a queue.
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 05 07:48:39 EST 2021 | mbass
Go for Gen 2 NT feeders, the Gen 1 Feeders tend to be problematic the older they get whereas the Gen 2 feeders are a much better prospect. I've used 8, 12, 16, 24 and 44mm. Some problems to look out for is pull back of coverlay and removal of waste
