Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 18 10:01:33 EDT 2005 | global
The CCA drawing actually does belong to our customer as it is a DOD contract. We were the last ones to ever build the cards but since so much time has passed since the last build all of our PWB vendors like us have probably purged their systems of al
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 04 13:33:15 EDT 2006 | Chunks
Hi Phil, It all depends on your product. You say small lot sizes, but are your board 20 by 20 inches in size with 5K parts both top and bottom? If so then even building 3 of these could take you days to build. Then take you weeks to trouble shoot
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 17 22:35:21 EST 2007 | JNet
Is the oven air or nitrogen? If it is air I would suggest more exhuast to pull the flux vapors out if the oven before they can condense in the cooling. If it is a nitrogn machine that makes it a little more complicated. If the filter system is clogge
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 10 17:44:50 EDT 2007 | Anon Y. Mous - Senior SMT Superczar and Process Guy
One of our customers had us building "Pb-free" assemblies with a few Sn/Pb parts on them. THEY got rolling too slowly and we were not able to bring in the required Pb-free components due to lead-time (not Pb-time) issues. When they started requesti
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 20 13:50:52 EDT 2007 | rgduval
Dominic, I guess it would depend on criticality and volume. We do mostly low volume builds here, and the only time I do a solderability test is when we encounter an issue during production. That process works for us, considering the volume of the
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 02 14:06:37 EDT 2007 | mattkehoe
Does anyone know of a company that can build a custom machine for someone? Somebody in the Atlanta area? We are going to be hiring a company to build a specialized machine for us and I thought I would put it out there in case someone does this kind
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 07 19:11:55 EDT 2020 | SMTA-Gregory
Our operations are deemed essential and our manufacturing operations continue. All employees that can work from home are to. As far as employees that need to come in to the manufacturing plant that consists of multiple buildings, an specific entran
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 17 08:41:07 EST 2024 | spoiltforchoice
The neat and simple solution is indeed a laser. However I have seen other quirky ways to denote a build revision. These include a resistor with a value marking that matches the build revision e.g a 1K marked 102 could indicate assembly 1.02. Another
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 04 15:05:08 EST 2002 | dougt
How about building a panel and checking it out prior to sawing it up?
Electronics Forum | Thu May 15 19:46:54 EDT 2003 | jonfox
Is it a mixed technology build (TH and SMT)? Do you have a reflow oven or just a wave?