Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 10 18:05:11 EDT 2002 | mikestringer
What have your experiences been with static meters for maintaining your ESD program? As part of our ESD program I am after an improved method of identifying risk items, or items not performing to specification. We use wrist and foot straps, ESD flo
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 29 16:04:29 EST 2007 | BillW
Thanks Russ and John, To clarify defects when manufacturing a PCBA, I use (2) groups of defect categories, one for components and one for solder joints. These can be calculated separately or combined A component defect could be: Missing, Miss-alig
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 01 17:24:40 EST 2008 | kpm135
I work for a small electronic contract manufacture and we are currently evaluating pick and place equipement hoping to improve the quality of our build and increase our cappacity to boot. We are a high mix/low volume shop and I'd say our average buil
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 31 09:31:31 EST 2011 | dwonch
Hi all, We've had a Yestech F1 system for several years now. Overall we are happy with the machine, fast and easy to program. Good false call rate and few misses. Now for the issues. We have two in particular. 1. Software crashes - these general
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 05 19:40:25 EST 2003 | Mike Konrad
Here's the official press release... New York, NY (November 5, 2003) -- KPS Special Situations Fund II announced today that it has acquired the stock and related assets of Speedline Technologies, Inc. from Cookson Group, plc for a total consideratio
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 04 20:44:31 EST 1999 | Keith Luke @ SMTnet
Recent weeks have indeed seen the departure of Earl Moon and Brian from our forum. We recognize that both were valuable contributors to our growing community, and regret their decisions to apparently move on. The staff at SMTnet has worked hard t
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 Jun 12 15:29:51 EDT 2009 | grantp
Hi, We just had delivered one of these and it's incredible. It's an amazing machine, and watching it load such a large board totally accurately, from end to end is amazing. Apparently we took delivery of only the second machine to ship in the world
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 30 21:03:44 EDT 2001 | davef
You should specify the level of res based on the effect of the res on the end-use of the product. J-STD-001 defines cleanliness requirements for ALL flux types, including water soluble and no-clean that you mention. 1 There is no equivalency betwee
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 26 16:51:47 EST 2002 | davef
First, an earlier poster suggested using DI water. We are NOT excited about DI water with a NC fluxer, unless DI water is the proper flux thinner. Second, as you inplied, the maintenance steps you take should vary according to the amount of time th
