Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 12 11:45:18 EST 2006 | patrickbruneel
Noah 2005 In the year 2005, the Lord came unto Noah, who was now living in the United States, and said, �Once again, the earth has become wicked and over-populated, and I see the end of all flesh before me. Build another Ark and save 2 of every liv
Electronics Forum | Sat May 27 19:39:23 EDT 2006 | grantp
Hi, This must be the worst advice I have ever seen given on a forum. Really if you do what Guru says here, your going to go out of business so fast it's amazing. It personally cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars when I had to retire MYDATA
Electronics Forum | Wed May 31 10:39:33 EDT 2006 | grantp
Hi, We actually tried to get major parts of our line from the same supplier, however each supplier is good at some parts of the line, and not others. We went with Soltec oven and wave, which work well, and have not had any issues, plus DEK printer
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 13 17:16:49 EDT 2007 | jmelson
I just got a used Philips CSM84 pick and place machine for $1500. I had to widen a doorway and rent a forklift to get it inside, as well as have it shipped. So, the total cost was much higher, but still under $10 K. I may have gotten lucky on this
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 22 13:05:32 EDT 2006 | Board House
Hi CP, From a PCB manufacturing side, all of our product is Lead free / RoHs compliant if it has a surface finish other than Hot Air. To be ROHS compliant and Able to with stand Lead Free Assembly, this is where the board house would need to switch
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 04 22:04:42 EST 2006 | KEN
1. Customers want simultainous manufacturing of PB and PB free assemblies but don't want to pay for separate toolng. 2. Customers wants PB free boards and doesn't understand lead parts can not go in the wave. Then gripe about missed shipping date
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 05 12:17:31 EST 2007 | Cmiller
Our first pass yield across all our products is above 95% but we include anything that does not meet IPC standards. Probably 75% of our failures are not electrical. AOI is a great tool to get a consistent measure of your process. I dont know how anyo
Electronics Forum | Tue May 01 09:58:20 EDT 2007 | rgduval
Basem, I can't direct you to a dispensing machine, as I'm not familiar with them. But, I can tell you what we do. We specialize in short volume, prototype quantity runs. Since prototypes and short quantities are not conducive to volume operations
Electronics Forum | Fri May 04 08:53:48 EDT 2007 | davem
I have been working with the UIC GSM platform for 6 years now in an EMS environment. Operating, programming, configuration, and line installation. I do not work for Universal or represent them in any way. UIC is a 1st rate company with excellent and
Electronics Forum | Thu May 10 19:25:59 EDT 2007 | rgduval
I've used a couple of different ERP packages in the past that claimed to do a little bit of everything. Typically, they did one thing really really well; and some other things, not so well. SAP or Oracle could probably give you a customized system
