Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 17 10:27:45 EDT 2002 | bdoyle
Guys, Everyone who posts here works for a company. I get emails occaisionally from people who are not pleased with the way the forum is progressing lately. If someone has a problem and a person offers solutions why is that bad? If an answer is p
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 17 21:33:20 EDT 2002 | davef
Ken, Yes, when quality is good, increasing throughput of a bottlenecked resource [lowering costs] is a fine goal. [Wouldn't E Goldratt smile?] In MY real world, quality is not as good as it should be. We have: * Suppliers that do not do as asked.
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 20 18:56:31 EDT 2002 | stepheno
If you don't already have one, the best investment you can make in your case is a good thermometer/humidity meter. They are not at all expensive. Then record the temperature and RH about 4 times a shift. After a few weeks (maybe sooner) you can se
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 26 08:54:53 EDT 2002 | davef
it has a lousy gage. * Solderability testing machines from different suppliers produce dissimilar results. * Tests don�t well represent in-use. For instance, how does one test the solderability of a BGA? [Ooo, ooo. I know the answer. => For BGA and
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 24 23:36:44 EDT 2002 | ppcbs
I'm with you Patrick. I make it a point to not buy anything made in China. Not just because it isn't made in America, but it usually breaks as soon as you get it out of the box. There should be a law against selling some of this stuff, just becaus
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 | Thu Jul 18 13:11:56 EDT 2002 | gdstanton
Steve, We are touching up 6 - 12% of all solder joints processed. We consider the solder joint to be the focal point of the SMT process. Therefore our metric is based on it. For example in a given month we... 1. Assembled 25pcs of 'A' (IPC-A-610/J
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 18 11:57:19 EDT 2002 | pjc
For component loss that cannot be accounted for by the placement machine's computer I would have the operators collect all loose components from the feeder setup area and in and around the placement machines after each product batch run. This is cert
Electronics Forum | Sun Jul 28 19:50:55 EDT 2002 | fastek
Wrong Sai. Quite a difference between assembling a board or a PC and building/assembling a screen printer. These systems being built in China will be for the China or Asian market only. MPM and DEK spent decades trying to establish themselves as the
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 06 11:08:53 EDT 2002 | kenbliss
Hi Brandon There are at least two reasons to calculate down time on each machine. One is to know if the individual machine is having ongoing problems and either needs to be serviced or replaced. I doubt this is much of a problem for most machines.
