Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 08 09:35:37 EST 2002 | dphilbrick
ESD safe and conductive are 2 totaly different situations. There are ESD safe carpets but I don't think I have seen coductive carpet. For heel straps to work in a carpeted area it would have to be conductive. Don't get the 2 mixed up it can cause dea
Electronics Forum | Tue May 11 20:49:39 EDT 2004 | alwil
Hi Grant, a few things you should also consider are, do you have a local agent for the piece of kit you are about to purchase. Are spares and consumables readily available in your area. Can you and your staff receive inhouse training or have
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 04 14:03:18 EDT 2004 | Frank
I know Juki has the headquarters in NC, but they have a support office in the Silicon Valley with spare parts. I know they go to the NW area quite often from that office. They offer their customers 7-day/24-hour free phone support (including holida
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 04 20:08:13 EDT 2004 | Ken
Rick P. is the Assembleon local Field Service Engineer. He is very good. He is stationed in the Portland Metro area. Oregon and Washington have a very dense population of Philips (assembleon) machines. Extensive installation base. I recently in
Electronics Forum | Sat Feb 12 18:35:56 EST 2011 | gabriel1blue
Thank you, that works perfect!! Now I was able to set up the offset's and program the machine, but now head #1 will move to the feeder location but it will not move down to pick up the part, then it moves to the drop area, but its only happening on h
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 18 11:53:58 EDT 2014 | sara_pcb
Our contract manufacturing agency have procured pcbs from approved vendor. After assembly we found solder mask separated from the PCB on the epoxy area as patches. The top side is intact. also over the pcb tracks, the mask got damaged. In what c
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 24 07:18:51 EDT 2017 | jamesbarnhart
IPC has updated assembly standards for IPC A-610 and IPC JSTD-001 making them easier to use and adding information in areas that have evolved. Both IPC J-STD-001E and IPC-A-610E have also been more closely linked to eliminating the differences that c
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 19 10:03:46 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| Has anyone had experience with placing BGA on gold plated boards. I thought I read a while ago there was a problem with embrittlment causing cracked joints. If anyone has experience with this your feedback would be great. | Mike Mike, We and ind
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 23 10:15:44 EST 2007 | slthomas
J-STD-001C just requires that the area not be so dirty as to contaminate your product, tools, workspace, etc. If you start counting particles, you're into cleanroom territory. Do a search on ISO 14644-1 for specifics. Actually Wikipedia does a ni
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 23 10:17:46 EDT 2005 | davef
You need to keep your stencil area ratio above 65.