Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 27 17:32:23 EDT 2001 | davef
JD I agree with everything that you said. Good pledge!!! Let me try to be clearer. I appreciate that no one wants to start or participate in a �negative selling battle�, where they are forced to say negative things about their competitors� produc
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 02 11:23:52 EST 2001 | dougt
Here's my 2 cents....... I worked for a small company that manufactures pick and place machines and had the task of testing/troubleshooting and the dreaded calibration. These machines used vision for part orentation and have what I considered aweso
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 08 17:33:26 EST 2002 | davef
You didn�t identify the type of tape you use, but Kapton or similar tape is not an effective method for attaching thermocouples. Search the fine SMTnet Archives for alternatives and comparison of methods. Two methods for mechanically attaching ther
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 11 13:11:00 EST 2002 | steve_arneson
I have read all of the previous threads and have found it very hard to believe what I am hearing. The idea that AOI is not needed on your production line is like running a marathon without training before hand. You can only expect to get out of an
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 25 15:51:04 EST 2002 | davef
ASQC re-numbered the once free (taxpayer sponsored development) MIL-STD-105 as ASQ-Z1.4, slapped their own cover on it, and now charge $40 or $50 for the same document! The standards are identical, so see if you can get one of the old �MIL-STD's� and
Electronics Forum | Fri May 09 00:59:36 EDT 2003 | kenBliss
Hi HERMAN I did not see any financial opinions so I thought I would offer one. The goal of the company is to make money, how you achieve that has many variables. Buying new equipment when the existing will do the job costs big money, provided the
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 18 12:32:16 EST 2004 | steve_arneson
There are many low cost paste inspection systems on the market today. It really depends upon your overall needs for process improvement. The CyberOptics LSM series of inspection devices use a single laser stripe to calculate both Height, Area and V
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 17 05:02:33 EST 2006 | grantp
Hi, I was replying to this thread appearing suddenly. However I have run both machines, and I paid for them myself because I run my own company, and so the choices I made, I personally had to pay for. Also, anyone who's been on this forum for a whi
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 07 17:12:34 EDT 2004 | davef
No one knows what type of board you use. So, assuming you're talking a fairly standard FR4. Q1a. actually, what is max temperature and duration can a bare PCB reflow without any quality problem? A1a. We'd guess your board could take 250*C for may
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 11 16:11:52 EST 2005 | Grant
Hi, Your right, and that's the thing I liked about MYDATA, even though we are selling ours now, and putting in Fuji'. I would still by a MYDATA if I was starting again, and doing low volume. When we started we kept our first product as simple as po
