Electronics Forum | Sat Sep 03 12:54:05 EDT 2011 | waveroom
I have sold them all and you are correct. Over the last five to eight years there has been a down turn in customer support from the big two. I would suggest Aim solder out of Rhode Island. Their service is excellent, they do provide on site assistanc
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 28 14:09:37 EST 2017 | emeto
Most of it can be re-formatted in Excel. In cases like this I will spend the time to write some macros that does it automatically. If it is just a single occasion, just format it in Excel. You can turn commas into columns and rows. You can change col
Electronics Forum | Sun Sep 12 20:26:34 EDT 2004 | dennispoquiz
Hi Vernon! Yeah, you're right. I tried to put a number in place of the "-" thing and it worked. Anyway, thanks for your concern. One thing that's bugging me is the generation of machine programs for a new product. Its been a tedious job for me to man
Electronics Forum | Thu May 26 18:19:01 EDT 2005 | darby
You should be able to export this data from each machine into an ascii format. Import into Excel and do what you want with it. I don't see that you should have to pay for any software at all. If you are not familiar with Excel and macros etc then get
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 28 11:42:33 EDT 2018 | dleeper
I never thought I'd utter these words but, Have you considered Quad? Quad went out of business around 2001 but the line was picked up by Tyco Automation and then by a company called Precision Placement Machines (PPM). A Quad 4C with feeders should
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 08 11:53:25 EST 2001 | davef
0.516 lbf-ft => 6.196 lbf-in I always use �YAUC� [Yet Another Unit Converter] by Marius Milner [mariusm@yahoo.com] software on my Palm. It's freeware and excellent to use. Try: * http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/RefCalculators4.html If you can't fin
Electronics Forum | Wed May 01 12:05:44 EDT 2002 | peterson
FMEA, when used correctly, is an excellent tool. The best thing about it is that it holds INDIVIDUALS accountable. The meeting cannot be closed until specific people (usually process types like me!) are assigned specific duties. I agree with Dave tha
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 30 15:28:48 EST 2004 | BobT
Larry, We are a Electronics Contract Mfgr and recently installed a new production line consisting of Samsung CP60 and CP45 SMT equipment. Both pieces of equipment have worked out excellent for our high mix / low volume production. Samsung equip has
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 20 15:06:04 EST 2005 | JB
We are a high mix low volume company. We run Universl HSP's chipshooters and GSM's for all our oddform components. The combination of this two platforms give us all the versatility that we need. From 0402's 0604's etc. to SMT headers, connectors, yo
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 19 12:18:57 EDT 2008 | mikesewell
Assembleon/Philips has their own offline programming software (PPS Gemline) to take you from CAD (they should have a gerber utility) to machine program. A lower cost aproach is something like GC-Preview with the "Plus" option to extract centroids, t
