Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 12 14:08:59 EDT 2004 | pgarsoe
This forum is for free use for all. Some times you see a question that is raised that your company's product would be a solution. Fine, post a general statement to that effect and a reference to where they can get more information. BUT DO NOT USE TH
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 24 05:34:12 EDT 2004 | FengAng
Hi Rob, I don't think you're so right about this thing. In China, there're so many companies that are using the most advanced equipments in the world. Machines using in Europe can also be found in China. In my company, we have the equipments like S
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 28 22:39:01 EDT 2004 | pdeuel
I dont speek Chineese. When I need support I prefer dealing with people who speak my language. I like my job. The more jobs lost to over seas companies make job market here harder to find work. Thousands of parts go into reflow ovens. So we are not t
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 19 13:03:16 EDT 2004 | pjc
Electronics manufacturing moving to China is not about the labor man. You all don�t get it. It�s the material, and not just the electronics material either. Plastics and metal parts costs are lower. Labor costs are the smallest component of a produc
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 22 10:18:52 EST 2004 | tonyfox
Our company laser re-ball's BGA down to 100 microns ball size. One of our OEM customers have asked us to function test there BGA on Mobile phone PCB's. Origionally we thought of a test sockets however the sockets interfere with other devices on the P
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 23 18:27:12 EST 2005 | gpaelmo
Hi Indy, Check http://www.jmw-inc.com (they are in the midwest so shipping will not be too bad going out east). I bought 2 MPM printers and a pick and place machine from them late in 2004. I know they have 5-zone reflow and 7-zone ovens there (elect
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 10 17:57:17 EDT 2005 | ratsalad
Does anyone have a suggestion on where to get a relatively inexpensive CMM for measuring my SMT accuracy? Even an XY table with a digital position display would be pretty handy to have. I use mostly Panasonic equipment at my current company, and I
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 08 08:18:52 EDT 2005 | davef
Rob We agree with Jason's point about swab lead indicators. You need to be careful interpreting the results. Lead must be in sufficient measurable quantities as found in Sn 63/37 or Sn 60/40 solders. Handheld units are: * Oxford (bought the X-Met
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 11 01:22:26 EDT 2005 | fastek
Stefen- Sorry you did not get any money back but I told you you wouldn't. And it's good you listed the company name but they could fold up their tents and resurface under another name in a week so it won't do much good. I hope this hasn't soured you
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 02 08:16:14 EDT 2005 | pjc
From Ray P. Prasad's article in this month's SMT magazine about the new IPC-7095 revison: ".....IPC does not have pull tests in any of its standards, and some reliability experts would prefer to keep it that way, pull tests are commonly used by some
