Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 20 08:26:17 EST 2005 | geb
Thanks for the info. Yes the old camera was a 4mil rectangle, and the new one is a 1mil circle, 2 slots wider. The camera was calibrated on install, but they must have done something wrong, cos it doesn't realise it is 2 slots short. This screws up t
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 30 09:18:06 EDT 2007 | realchunks
Hi Tammy, If you're starting your own business and are asking these types of questions, I'd suggest hiring someone who knows the answers to these types of questions. Not a slam on your part, I hope your business does well (unless you start stealing
Electronics Forum | Sat Jan 26 12:08:34 EST 2008 | fastek
Back in those days........very few had degrees. Even the engineering managers didn't have degrees. It did begin to shift in the late 90's as I saw many new hires coming out of college with degrees and no experience. Of course they brought nothing to
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 30 12:38:12 EST 2008 | slthomas
"They ended up hiring a guy for the going rate around town so they shot themselves in the foot." Well, except that now they have a happy employee and before they didn't. Not criticising, just pointing out a different perspective. Sometimes they'll p
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 14 12:39:31 EST 2010 | gregcr
Hi All, We have a glenbrook x-ray in house, but I am in need of a high resolution x-ray of some failed BGA image sensors. Does anyone know of a company that does hi-res or 3D x-ray service? We are not getting enough detail to really see what may be
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 09 15:54:15 EST 2019 | emeto
All that Phil mentioned plus few tips: 1. Start with the reflow oven. Level the oven and fix it. Then you can go from there to the front end or back end of the line. 2. If you are not sure about all this, hire someone who is. I personally like to d
Electronics Forum | Wed May 17 17:35:41 EDT 2000 | JAX
Janet, If you do not have any SMT experianced personel hire a consultant. You can find them everywhere on this site even if they say they don't participate or even agree with SMTNET. Whoever you choose can give you the direction and understanding ne
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 20 16:08:43 EST 2001 | CAL
As long as the bag integrety is not sacrificed I would put it back into production. no tears, wear, exessive labels, folds........ In a previous life many moons ago.......we would have our receiving department put returned field failures in used ba
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 04 09:39:49 EDT 2001 | Cal
I went to the SMTNet Career Center and Found 76 pages of jobs available. Are you kidding me? The two hours of my life that does not revolve around electronics can be better spent elsewhere than wading through 76 pages of job postings. On a serious n
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 06 04:20:50 EST 2000 | R Lahat
Vishy, I was in the same boat. I had to run 3 siemens smt lines and get good results. I used the Arena simulation software to program in my 3 smt lines and found it very complicated but can be done. In parallel I took in industrial engineering stude