Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 07 08:18:19 EDT 2006 | Rob
Hi Pavel, Great machines - very good for high volume - we did a lot of OEM overflow work and for fault finding & speed it kicked the other more expensive machines into touch. However... Programming is a lot slower initially than some of the othe
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 23 11:37:13 EST 2007 | electronhose
Here in the Great White North, the best way to check our CM's compliance with the ESD 20.20 is to take a couple months worth of data during heating season and graph it against the outside temp swings. You can easily see how the HVAC system keeps up,
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 21 12:40:44 EST 2007 | jmelson
There is a Quad 1000 in eBay stores, but I can't get much info on what a Quad 1000 can or can't do. It appears to be a "chip shooter", but can it do 0805 passives, too? Does it need an option to do those? Does the 1000 have some form of optical ce
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 22 13:57:47 EDT 2007 | chris
I would recommend checking out the stereo microscopes from Vision Engineering (www.visioneng.com). We have used the older and newer style Mantis scopes and our assemblers love them as you can do rework in a very natural and comfortable seating posit
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 16 08:33:46 EST 2007 | rgduval
For RoHS assemblies, we're spec'ing at least FR-406 for the higher Tg. We're currently requesting our customers to use ENIG finish, as we've had better luck with assembly in our process; but we're currently experimenting wtih lead-free HASL. As far
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 05 22:59:42 EST 2007 | er_pe
To be successful, and to yield quality products off any selective solder systems out there on the market today, DFX rules need to be enforced and followed. Lay-out is a one-shot process where as manufacturing of the PCBA is continuous. Obviously, muc
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 13 16:37:48 EDT 2008 | darburch
The only time the customer is going to care about the standards is when it costs them money. Unsophisticated customers will continue the practice of providing little or no useful information, poorly designed boards and ridiculous mods until there is
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 04 18:08:26 EDT 2008 | comatose
We are a small OEM that runs a high mix/low volume environment. Typical runs are a couple or five hundred boards, one or two products per day. Currently, we are using a Quad DeHart SLC-20 semi-automatic stencil printer. (alignment is manual, printing
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 23 17:40:33 EDT 2008 | dyoungquist
We are a small OEM that also does EMS for local companies. We run our SMT line 10 hours/day 5 days/week and average 2 changeovers per day. We are using a MyData machine in our line. With the proper mix of magazines and feeders, changeover times ca
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 09 18:43:54 EDT 2008 | mowens
Hello everyone, I'm a long time reader of the forums but this will be my first time posting and seeking help. Here's our situation, we have a small pick and place it places about 1800 parts per hour. It is a good R/D proto machine, but it is quic
