Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 10 19:15:07 EST 2009 | swag
We like to keep one fully populated SMT golden per product (high volume) with t-couples soldered to it. We have best results using high temp. solder to attach t-couples (most permanent). 1) Remove all production solder from the part you are wanting
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 14 13:41:40 EDT 2010 | rway
We are running SMT products and have been for some time now. First, I wanted to check with you folks to see what an acceptable FPY rate, or what you would consider and acceptable rate, is. Secondly, we are having issues primarily with product that
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 29 14:57:13 EDT 2010 | asksmt
What is difficult about hand soldering your SMT part? Production solder All SMT packages by reflow Process and not by hand solder. because they think if they use hand soldering on SMT package- Soldering quality can’t be ensured as this is SMT parts
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 22 22:48:46 EDT 2011 | tony_d
Hello NHTech, When it came time to invest in AOI, my team and I checked out several machines. We run a wide variety of products and our changeover is high, on the order of five to ten jobs per day. MVP is one of the machines that we looked at, how
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 31 08:27:45 EDT 2011 | rway
AOI if needed? I take it your AOI/AXI is not inline. Too bad. Our AOI is the first line of defense against induced errors in the mfg process. It's invaluable. How do you know it's not needed, or that it won't be needed in the future? Do you hav
Electronics Forum | Fri May 04 11:42:48 EDT 2012 | scottjwarren
Greetings! I run a small CM company in the Midwest. We built our business on THT production for the boutique music products industry and are currently planning our launch of a low-volume/high-mix SMT line to support the growth of our business. Our
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 01 21:26:51 EDT 2014 | proy
We are a smaller company and have created our own systems using FilemakerPro, and it grows and evolves with us as we constantly improve it. Filemaker is a complete relational database system wrapped up WITH the tools to create your user interface -
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 27 10:23:41 EDT 2012 | cobham1
I need to clarify something for everyone. The end customer is the Military. Our customers are military suppliers who do in fact have quality systems in place. When we build the product we end up potting the unit so the customer never looks at the ele
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 30 19:57:21 EDT 2012 | rway
How many failures? This is hard to quantify. How could you unless you witnessed a spark and all of a sudden the product no longer works. The truth is you could have a discharge and not even know it. It could brush against your clothing, or as we
Electronics Forum | Tue May 21 09:06:03 EDT 2013 | hussman
Delta-T in reflow generally means 2 things - difference in temperature on a product or difference in temperature of your oven. Delta-T on a product is what are your hottest and coolest areas on the board. Larger parts toward the middle of the boar
