Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 28 12:35:30 EDT 2018 | robl
I have 2 - one in an old line with 2 x 750's that we are waiting to swap out, and one spare. They are glacially slow, they are no longer supported (although we have good second user spares form China). A 750 is much quicker. If you know for a fac
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 17 06:48:15 EDT 1998 | Wayne
Steve: It's a matter of economics! Let face it "there's a butt for every seat" In the real world the more we build in inspection the more failures we seem to report, the more rework we have to do, the less amount of product we send to the marketpl
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 23 12:40:22 EDT 2002 | patrickbruneel
I'm glad to see so much awareness of the challanges the US manufacturing industry is facing. But in problem solving you first have to realize that there is a problem before a solution can be worked out. I firmly believe that if we could convince the
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 01 21:31:50 EST 2003 | swalter
Hi , Since , only most of your operation is done manually , I believe there are a number of operations that are done through automation , do you actually see the benefits of automation? There are many considerations points of going into automation
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 12 08:52:56 EDT 2003 | jgregory
Thank you, Stefan. I agree with your reply. This coropration I'm referring to is "Microsofting" the market. They are huge and hold the reigns in this situation. I may just have to belly up and choke the cost to get support, but like I said, my memor
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 05 12:51:29 EDT 2003 | Kevin
I don't have any direct experience with Speedline or Austin America, but you may want to consider a Technical Devices cleaner. I have bought 2 used Technical Devices Cleaners and have had no problems with them at all. The support I received from th
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 10 15:06:40 EST 2004 | Claude_Couture
Ok,the point you appear to make is that the US brokers are selling the machines to Asian industries thus causing the job loss in the US... So the US brokers should stop selling to Asian industries to give the US industries a chance to buy inexpensive
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 28 10:27:55 EST 2007 | Rob
Hi John My understanding of your post is that you are asking if anyone has tried to enforce MSL levels or reflow parameters onto the component vendor/manufacturer. Is this your question or am I mis-interpriting it? If that is the case you will not
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 19 12:48:29 EDT 2008 | ratsalad
From what I understand, the major reason Sn prices recently escalated was a crackdown on black market Sn mining in Indonesia, where most of our Sn originates. Add to that increased demand (not necessarily from RoHS, but from China, India, and other
Electronics Forum | Thu May 07 17:50:41 EDT 2009 | ecad
Hi, I'm a newbie here but I've lurked about this forum in the past! I'm an experienced PCB Designer I've found myself out of work due to the economy so I'm attempting to start out as a freelancer, I've found that more than a few of the smaller R&D fi
