Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 05 19:40:25 EST 2003 | Mike Konrad
Here's the official press release... New York, NY (November 5, 2003) -- KPS Special Situations Fund II announced today that it has acquired the stock and related assets of Speedline Technologies, Inc. from Cookson Group, plc for a total consideratio
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 25 12:20:21 EST 2004 | Mike Konrad
OK� Nap time�s over! Technically speaking, water soluble flux is just that, soluble in water. Technically speaking, one does not need a saponifier or any other chemical agent to remove water soluble (OA) flux residues. However, one must conside
Electronics Forum | Sat May 22 19:02:04 EDT 2004 | Grant
Hi, I had another thread on this, however it's kind of petered out, and so I thought I would start another more specific thread. We have been looking at both the Fuji CP7 and the Universal HSP4797 however really have no idea what to choose. It seem
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 11 16:11:52 EST 2005 | Grant
Hi, Your right, and that's the thing I liked about MYDATA, even though we are selling ours now, and putting in Fuji'. I would still by a MYDATA if I was starting again, and doing low volume. When we started we kept our first product as simple as po
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 23 17:01:23 EST 2005 | adlsmt
You may want to look at Universal Instruments as well. We had Assembleon, Panasonic and Contact systems equipment and decided to try to pick one platform for the future to simplify programming and training. We are a high mix CM that also does high vo
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 15 19:20:46 EST 2006 | Mr. Samir
Russ, On both instruments, I ran them through the wave 20 times each using identical profiles and wave parameters, and then used statistical formulas to measure the variation and repeatability of each. I had these all in Excel, but that was around 1
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 11 20:44:37 EST 2006 | davef
Title : LEAD-FREE WAVE SOLDER FLUX EVALUATION Author : Michael Havener Author Company : Benchmark Electronics, Inc Date : 09/25/2005 Conference : SMTA International Abstract : The European Union�s deadline to ban lead in electronic pr
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 19 14:24:26 EDT 2010 | davef
See, the bean counters are taking over. They've got you out there counting flyshit. Chip parts aren't worth the time it takes to count them, even with a counterometer. Watch out!!! Next thing they'll have you doing is sweeping-up misplaces, figurin
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 27 23:10:16 EDT 2010 | mbrunton
I am looking at buying a pick and place machine to assemble the circuit boards we make. Most of the boards are small (2 to 10 square inches), most are 2 sided, and have maybe 20-50 parts per side. I use mostly 0805/0603 chips, SOT-23, SOD-123, SOIC
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 26 00:03:09 EDT 2010 | jmelson
Hmm, that's a fairly old machine, even older than mine! (I have a CSM84 PA130640). Anyway, it is best to program the machine from CAD system data, I wrote a little program in C to read in the component type and XYR position, and produce the file in
