Electronics Forum | Fri May 26 15:48:36 EDT 2000 | John Escobar
I am a Ph. D. student in Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken NJ. My thesis idea is related to Economics for Electronic Assembly. The general idea is to create a sensitivity economic model related to the design and manufa
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 13 01:32:54 EST 2001 | JT
We had a similar issue with one of our products and ended up redesigning the whole PCB to fit the new parts. It may be little more costly up front than your solution, but should should have a much lower impact on quality and process and cost much le
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 14 21:06:49 EDT 2001 | davef
We rate each board for producibility. [Our rating chart may be based on some things that Bob Willis did. Check his site [http://www.bobwillis.co.uk/ ] for all kinds of neat stuff. Maybe even bring him in to help you sort through things.] There
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 03 12:24:14 EDT 2001 | hinerman
I can only describe how the Grid Lok handles component variability. The compliant caps have an annular ring that is very soft and can mold to different shapes. If a component shows up where there was no component before, the outside of the cap bend
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 07 11:05:50 EST 2000 | Graham Naisbitt
Dave You are so right about that point. I still use some cost models we ran up some 5 years ago. I took one to a customer and showed them that they could make $400K more PROFIT PER YEAR running OA v No-Clean. Their response? Well, we don't believe
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 19 14:41:11 EST 2002 | Randy Villeneuve
On the outside looking in the cost of manufacturing your board assemblies may look high. I will tell you that it is probably a good price. There are allot of hidden costs in manufacturing and yes equipment right now is cheap but try buying parts chee
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 07 22:13:43 EST 1999 | sin
Like Wolfgang said, the breakaway tab is just another bar added to the edge of the pcb. This breakaway tab can be added by the FAB house in addition of extra cost...You can write DFM for your customer to see if they will pay for the cost or not...if
Electronics Forum | Sun Nov 14 02:29:59 EST 1999 | Hany A. Salam
In our facility we face a lot of power failures due to the to the city electricity network problems.So, it has hppend many times to loose some PCA's inside the reflow oven. Of course it costs a big money tobuy a UPS for a reflow oven. One suggested
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 12 16:55:42 EDT 1999 | Mike Demos
Thanks for all of your replys. I will include these in our design review meeting tomorrow! | In a cost-reduction effort, our Design group is attempting to eliminate silk-screen (legend ink) on some new products. By the elimination of this process,
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 29 17:49:47 EST 1999 | smd
| Dave: | | The problem is always the cost.....also it is required to properly connect the work bench and top to the grounding system. | | With most installations what we find is after a year or so, people have moved the benches around and the grou
