Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 24 15:20:27 EST 2000 | Chris McDonald
I have recently purchased a Tape and reel machine from V-Tech. We are using Presure Sensitive tape and we are not geting good results. Anything bigger that a SOIC14/16 gives us trouble. The cover tape will pull off on the feeder and we will lose part
Electronics Forum | Thu May 28 10:57:10 EDT 1998 | John
Our company is currently looking to implement a SMT production line. What I am looking for is feedback on people's experiences with various machines. Here's what we are in the market for: Low/Mid volume 3,000+cph machine that can handle high job fle
Electronics Forum | Thu May 26 00:42:19 EDT 2005 | nicholas2005
Ok, I just need someone to give me some feed back on a few questions I have. If anyone could help me that would be great. Example: take a Fuji CP-4 feeder for instance! If I machine my own, place my own parts on it, and place my own company name, and
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 01 04:51:21 EDT 2006 | EC
Hi TS, Most of the machines will face this problem after been using few years.....I handling SMT equipments ( Fuji machine ) and process.....sorry if I have offened you...... Hi Jack, Firstly, you must able to tell which component having a high thr
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 26 16:07:56 EST 2012 | jerlong
Greetings, Does anyone know where to find a tape and reel flatness specification? Looking at the EIA 481-B standard, there is no reference to the tape flatness (the images shown may "imply" flatness from one side of the tape to the other, However I
Electronics Forum | Thu May 10 15:11:53 EDT 2001 | jdtpfacreate
Paul, My company offers an excellent solution for low volume/high mix applications. The issue always becomes how can you reduce downtime/changeover. There are few features on our machines that allow you to do this effectively: -Load feeder
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 21 13:11:25 EST 2006 | SWAG
We have fought with cut-tape way too much. It's always a bad idea. We've tried a couple methods/devices for manual splice with limited success. Before you look into this I would ask them if they could supply you cut tape qty's inslusive of fairly
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 26 11:02:41 EDT 2011 | dyoungquist
TP9 machines are good, but old machines. We ran a TP9 for many years. As the machine got older it required more and more maintenance and had more frequent small issues similar to what you are seeing. We only saw 1 of your 4 issues specifically whi
Electronics Forum | Wed May 09 12:07:52 EDT 2001 | caldon
My personal favorite is the Siemens F series and the UIC GSM platform. Both Siemens and UIC have awesome resources for csp, flipchip and baredie processing - Siemens= Dan Baldwin from GaTech; UIC = George Westby from UIC labs. My second choice would
Electronics Forum | Sun Oct 11 21:19:51 EDT 2009 | fulldrawmike
we have both flexjet and flexhead, we also have the new inline 7 head on some genesis dual beams we just put into operation. If you have a choice in flexjet heads take the inline 7. The flexjet 09 head is very labor intensive, stay away from them, e
