Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 24 09:52:26 EDT 2005 | javi
Patric, The product is exempted from the RoHS regulativ 1'st phase(2010) and our policy is to follow the new EU regulations as this will also push the Industri technolegy and the SMT process. Our concern is more that we are not able to qualify the p
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 21 15:49:01 EST 2000 | CAL
Dave- this may not be much current help but for future needs: IPC-7525 Stencil Design Guidelines is due out real soon. Check with IPC on its status, last I heard it was in interim Final.What is nice about this Doccument is that it also covers Pin_Thr
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 26 18:43:09 EDT 2000 | Christopher Noonan
I am looking for tooling plate manufactures. I am kind of new to the SMT process, well as far as tooling goes, and I am trying to find a machinist to make tooling plates for Fuji and Siemens placement machines. Does anyone have any recommendation f
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 04 16:17:08 EDT 2000 | Brian W.
I would be happy to share some insights with you, but would prefer to do it off line. I have been involved with CM work for 9 years. Please feel free to e-mail me a phone number or e-mail address if you would like to speak about it further. Brian
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 06 13:31:35 EDT 2000 | Michael Parker
Thanks Dave for the right methods that will get Patrick out of his mess. As long as one is a "Do it yurselfer". I still advocate having the supplier accept responsibility and clean the boards. After a bit of elbow grease, some cussin' and lost time I
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 13 20:27:45 EDT 2000 | Dave F
Hey Jack: I hope this qualifies as positive. ;^) May your days always be bright and filled with sun light and your evenings passed with a pint the never runs empty, so long you keep MELFs of all sorts on the primary side of the board, n'er thinkin
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 20 14:26:47 EST 2000 | Charles Harper
One of my chapter authors,Dr.Rolf Funer teaches a course specifically on evaluating and qualifying new PCB suppliers.Hence,he can give the best and most complete advice here.So,just click on his name in the list of chapter authors at the top of this
Electronics Forum | Thu May 03 10:38:42 EDT 2001 | davef
You need to have a way to qualify and monotor your process. X-ray and ERSA's fiber optic inspection thingies are two approaches for doing that. There are lots of good x-ray machines out there. Get a transmissive x-ray machine with resolution of 10
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 18 19:22:38 EDT 2001 | Gil Zweig
Dave; See my answer to "Alternate to X-ray" The combination of endoscope optical inspection with x-ray inspection provides the most effective means of BGA inspection. Transmission x-ray provides a very rapid means of qualifying then process control o
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 14 20:21:19 EDT 1999 | Pat Copeland
I am looking for help on doing smt equipment qualifications. I need to find some examples to follow. The equipment to be qualified is a Stencil Machine, Pick and place machine, and Reflow oven. We manufacture medical devices so it has to be somewhat