Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 26 20:30:03 EST 2001 | davef
Dirt => Beer => Girls FACT: * Hybrid circuits in the 1960s that were used to conquer space where the genesis of today's SMT. * Japanese commecialized it to build better transitor radios * UIC & Dynapert fought it tooth and nail. UIC finally got t
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 12 20:06:05 EST 2001 | zerbrenny
OK, here is the deal. I won't write a book but I have to correct the putz that said the birth of SMT was an accident. Actually the SMT machine replaced the poor bastards who had to place components by hand. Manufacturers were looking for a better way
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 17 18:09:09 EST 2002 | Bill Loving
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Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 19 18:35:05 EST 2002 | dougt
I was asked by a mechanical guy where the industry standard was for designing a chassis for an ISA/PCI backplane board that we are going to use. We typically use a chassis built by an outside manufacturer but they have decided to build our own. Wel
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 17 21:59:14 EDT 2002 | dougt
So when you big guys have a reel of parts on one line and your only placing one part per board while on another line you need this reel (last one in the building) to place 30 parts per board, do you steal it and short it on the first line? How is th
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 19 13:36:45 EDT 2002 | pjc
Consider buying a taping machine. At the last contract mfg. I worked I bought a used V-Tek TM30 manual taping machine. It was a tremendous asset. Start saving your embossed tape and reels now so you will build up a stock. Hopefully your placement mac
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 26 11:11:53 EDT 2002 | Mike Frye
I am looking for anyone who may have information on adjustable reflow pallets. Could you please provide a supplier and contact. My dilema is that during an initial NPI build the PCB's may not arrive with rail adds. I need a way to transfer this PCB t
Electronics Forum | Fri May 17 14:23:34 EDT 2002 | dason_c
I will convinced to change to the no clean process by environmental safe even though clean process is water soluble but it still produce the waste. Also, the BGA is not recommend to clean, if the flux is not completed removed from the board and elec
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 04 18:07:26 EDT 2002 | peterson
Well-said, lad. I strongly concur. It is not too late for US OEM and EMS companies. We have to retool and rethink the way we do business. If we do, we can still succeed, though I doubt we will ever see the numbers that we saw during the 1997-2000 boo
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 11 17:26:27 EDT 2002 | Tony B
Does anyone know how the Fuji IP2 can be adapted to place BGA's? The MTU places the chip on a carrier with suction in the center and it will not hold on to the BGA due to the lack of a flat surface on the bottom. I have had limited success building
