Electronics Forum | Fri May 24 17:37:58 EDT 2002 | fastek
Seems like the landscape is changing in SMT equipment for US manufacturers. I have heard the following but I don't claim they are anything more than rumors: 1) Sanyo and Universal are parting ways and Sanyo will market their machines in the US direc
Electronics Forum | Fri May 31 17:52:49 EDT 2002 | fastek
I'm seeing a definate pick up of activity levels in my business. Equipment is finally selling albeit at depressed prices. Unlike last year however when things were not selling AT ANY price. At least there are buyers now. The huge CM's will take a l
Electronics Forum | Sun Jun 02 23:20:39 EDT 2002 | fastek
China is way behind the technology curve and will be for some time. They're still soaking up all of the through hole and 10 year old chipshooters they can get their hands on. China is the latest flavor of the month for cheap labor just like Mexico wa
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 03 21:48:09 EDT 2002 | fastek
I judge a country's technology level by what they buy and what China is buying are not MSR's and CP-7's. It's MV2's, MV2C's, CP-4's with an MV2F here and there. If that's not behind the curve, I don't know what is. I would say they are 5 years behind
Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 08 01:31:19 EDT 2002 | fastek
It should be easy enough for you to do your own study to determine if you need more people or not. The first thing that I would do is optimize or balance your line to the optimum efficiency. That is not a difficult task. Once that is done, analyze yo
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 10 03:14:29 EDT 2002 | fastek
Gotta hand it to you Ken. Quite a piece of marketing to sell feeder carts.
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 14 22:11:59 EDT 2002 | fastek
Hey Ken...my car won't start. Can your feeder racks or storage totes solve that problem as well? Sheesh....
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 05 23:51:34 EDT 2002 | fastek
Sold a customer a Conceptronics HVA-70 Convection Reflow Oven recently. While performing the install I asked if compressed air was hooked up. Seems this customer ...who already had a HVA-70 convection reflow oven never used air or nitrogen with that
Electronics Forum | Sat Jul 27 00:27:41 EDT 2002 | fastek
Cal- Your statement about Fuji owning the market in the 80's is not quite true. If you look at what was happening in those days...before CM's had any penetration, Panasonic was the big dog because they targeted the OEM's and crapped on the CM's. Mad
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 31 01:07:51 EDT 2002 | fastek
What I believe is the problem with American business's today is simple: greed. Over the last 5 years due to the stock market frenzy, companies became obsessed with shareholder value and the price of the stock. So much pressure was put on the CEO of a
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