Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 28 14:35:10 EDT 2007 | donjohnson
If I was trying to sell you something I'd be more direct, i'm more interested in peoples views of this testing then I am in convincing you to use it. In addition, you're both in America and i'm in New Zealand, so what am I going to sell you? I didn'
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 29 08:10:55 EDT 2007 | donjohnson
Thanks Dave... To all that took offence I do apologise, its a fine line that i'm walking here. Accelerated life testing is an integral part of todays development and manufacturing environment. I've spent 3 years living with 50% of my time in a desi
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 29 09:37:04 EDT 2007 | slthomas
While I don't have a dog in this hunt (my only comment is that I wouldn't want to buy a candy bar that has been taste tested), I do very much appreciated the validation that I DID in fact retain something from college. "Granted, if I were still in c
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 29 01:17:50 EDT 2007 | Brian
I actually wrote a program that looked just like the CSM66/84 system. I wrote it so we could train our staff offline without having to interrupt production. It did everything just like the real program (including the initial RAM load.) You would use
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 29 17:23:19 EDT 2007 | dphilbrick
All depends on the product. I say that because some stuff just isn't worth the effort, you other CM's know what I'm talking about. We do a review on every run after it is complete and there are many actions that can be taken. We always first focus on
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 29 13:29:08 EDT 2007 | JD
Ewwww metal mini stencils? Try http://www.circuitmedic.com/products/stencils.shtml We use their flextac stencils all the time and they work perfect. You can get a couple uses out of each of them if youre careful too. Just line it up under a scope and
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 05 13:40:15 EDT 2007 | slthomas
"I just need better reasons than it [...] increases defect probability." If that's not enough, you have bigger problems. Have you seen any rework/repair that was generated by this handling gem? Does your company profess to build to IPC specificati
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 10 17:44:50 EDT 2007 | Anon Y. Mous - Senior SMT Superczar and Process Guy
One of our customers had us building "Pb-free" assemblies with a few Sn/Pb parts on them. THEY got rolling too slowly and we were not able to bring in the required Pb-free components due to lead-time (not Pb-time) issues. When they started requesti
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 12 13:04:47 EDT 2007 | slthomas
Handling requirements of all classifications of moisture sensitive devices is found in J-STD-033. It really isn't an issue for most parts unless they're going to reach reflow temperature again, which is unlikely unless you're removing a nearby compo
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 13 04:10:21 EDT 2007 | CH
We would like to get feedback from users of SMT REWORK STATION especially for BGA's.Dear users, kindly give us ur feedback on BGA REWORK system on the following. 1.Is HOT air based BGA rework system be better than IR rework system.if so pls clarify.
