Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 17 03:43:26 EST 2004 | vinitverma
Hi Fastek (what's your name?) The problem here is about the misconception about the FCM-I. As you rightly mentioned, the FCMs have gone through evolution in the last 10 years and the FCM 'I' too went through a lot of changes! And the FCM Is delivere
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 21 12:08:02 EST 2004 | KEN
1. Its market protectionism for the Europeans. 2. Silver is less toxic than Lead? Wrong! 3. Don't expect your local alloys exchange market to take a position (London Metals Exchange). No other alloy is cheaper than lead. The cost of silver and
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 05 09:24:53 EST 2005 | cyber_wolf
Well...here is what I can tell you: I have over $40K worth of bent A12,A13,A14 tools.Yes you heard me right $40K worth. (Since 1995) Mydata used to make a repair kit to fix them but decided to quit. They tell me the reason they quit making the kit i
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 13 11:55:42 EST 2005 | fasst1
Rob, I also appreciate the banter. It is good to have these discussions with end users in a (hopefully) non sales environment. Philips actually started building Pick and Place machines in 1980 for high volume accounts. They started out because th
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 26 13:10:50 EST 2005 | jbrower
Tom, has your company started to convert your BOMS? How is your company doing it? Yes, I think that is on most peoples minds, how to do the BOM conversions is the main worry, and I think that it just boggs some companies down so they dont do anyt
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 26 07:18:13 EST 2005 | clampron
Good Morning TM, We have a table top AOI (actually several of them) We did a side by side evaluation when we first looked at it. We looked at Qualectron, NSpec and Mirtec (Samsung at the time). Some of the criteria that was important to us: *Librar
Electronics Forum | Sat Feb 12 09:38:39 EST 2005 | primus
I think you may be assuming that our operators aren't already doing that. We need to be able to bypass the interlocks... how do you think our operators make line adjustments? Step the machine, drop the tooling, and eyeball it. That's it. The operator
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 24 06:11:18 EST 2005 | siverts
Nozzle used? Nozzle tip damaged/worn-out (that's where the nozzle life comes in)? Component package? Heavy component? Feeder? Do You see that component type, used by that nozzle inside the machine, or components at the wrong spot on the pcb? If so, t
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 11 18:30:50 EST 2005 | davef
Russ: In December 2003, the European Commission released the following statement: �The commission services have prepared a draft Commission decision establishing maximum concentration values pursuant to Article5(1)(a) of Directive 2002/95/EC. The pr
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 12 03:51:54 EDT 2005 | Base
You mentioned you only do 1-4 boards per program per year, and that you're doing 8-14hrs per board. Does that mean you're only doing a couple of boards per week in total? In other words: consider the amount of running time you expect to get on the ma
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