Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 04 11:04:27 EDT 2000 | John
We manufacture a mixed technology board, that uses a through hole "mini cap" with a 2.5 mm lead span. We have had several failures caused by solder wicking up through the plated through hole pcb and touching the can. This shorts out the capacitor.
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 01 16:42:45 EDT 2000 | Robert Hartmann
Our company is putting a BGA/CSP package assembly line together. We have been studying different assembly houses reliability (short and long term) monitoring programs. I was wondering if some of you who use BGA's/CSP's for your MCM's and Hybrid's
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 20 23:50:25 EDT 2000 | Michael Beck
Paul: MVT is certainly still around and continues to dominate the worldwide AOI market. Frankly, the charge that this company has "stopped servicing their equipment", is libelous. The fact that you're employed by an MVT competitor, MVP, should hav
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 29 12:36:10 EDT 2000 | Gary
You might try your search with the words Adhesive Dispenser. We recently evaluated machines from Asymtek, a Nordon company, Camalot, and Zmation, and GPD. There are several others. One consideration in the scenario you described is to make sure th
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 22 11:36:59 EDT 2000 | Andreas Albrecht
Dear Folks, could anyone give me an advice who supplies dicing blades (2 or 4") for cutting blended, through hole plated PCBs (1-3 mm thickness). Who has made good experiences (tool life, duration) with which blades? Are there any good application i
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 23 09:36:58 EDT 2000 | C.K.
Chrys: Funny that you mention that, but here at my company, our oven is blamed on almost everything: skewing, tombstoning, solder shorts, etc.... In fact, we often have to tell the supervisors, "It's not the oven because we don't turn the skewing
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 01 17:29:27 EDT 2000 | C.K.
Okay, so my boss gives me this little "side project" that nobody else wanted to do... ....our Component Prep area (an area that no Engineer wants to support) is in need of a thru-hole component counter - counts both bulked and reeled parts. They ha
Electronics Forum | Tue May 23 09:21:48 EDT 2000 | Brett W. Philipp
I am a PCB Designer / Mech. Engineer for a telecom company that has just started. What I would like, if possible is a reference copy of the SM-782A IPC spec. or some input on a way to calculate depending on the PLCC part dimensions, land pattern crea
Electronics Forum | Wed May 17 16:01:48 EDT 2000 | Janet Tietz
I work for a small assembly company that is starting to branch into SMT. I have been choosen to run the setup since I have the most computer skills and greatest knowledge of componets in the shop. However, I am finding out I need a lot more knowled
Electronics Forum | Wed May 17 17:27:32 EDT 2000 | Michael Parker
Janet- Sorry you didn't see the train coming before you committed. Start with voracious readings of everything in the archives in this forum. Once you are armed and dangerous there is some very helpful people here that can support you. It would help
