Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 27 13:45:35 EDT 2000 | Bill Schreiber
Dear Dreamsniper, A big hidden cost in any cleaning system is the cost of diminished production and rework. I assume you are cleaning the adhesive stencils manually since there is no equipment cost in your formula. Manual cleaning of adhesive sten
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 28 11:16:05 EDT 2000 | Chris May
Quite simply, when the stencil is being auto cleaned, the operator can be doing another element of work. Also as mentioned, the stencil will be thoroughly cleaned as opposed to having any human errors leading to blocked or damaged stencils. The time
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 03 11:07:00 EDT 2000 | C.K.
"In Reality there's no additional cost or extra cost for the cleaning time since there is no increase on operator's wage in doing the cleaning but instead just an additional load or job for the operators at the same wage cost." I'd have to agree...
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 10 14:24:30 EDT 2000 | john_t
Cleaning time SHOULD be accounted for into labor costs when costing product because although it CAN be done off-line, you still need to clean the contaminated screen and this has to be done by a worker who is (hopefully) charging for this (remedial)
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 04 14:54:46 EDT 2000 | Sean
I feel Woldgang poses an interesting question. It seems you have already decided that dispensing is the path you wish to take. Yet can you tell us why? Is there a flexibility vs. throughput arguement here? Justification of dispense via the cleani
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 03 15:27:37 EDT 2000 | Wolfgang Busko
What�s wrong with your printing process and what improvement do you expect from dispensing ? I can imagine that it�s more convinient just to have this process inline, no worrying about stencils, cleaning, changing printer setting, just replacing a ca
