Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 03 14:16:59 EST 2010 | davef
First, we expect that your equipment supplier would help you with this. Then again with lots of used equipment flying around, some of the basic stuff often gets pushed to the back of the bus. Second, here is a clip and paste on the basics of equipm
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 27 12:02:47 EDT 2022 | proceng1
I have never used a VP oven, but I did get a pretty good demo of one and was pushing hard for my company to acquire one. The issue ended up being that there was not an East Coast distributor for the "juice" and that became cost prohibitive to get sh
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 27 06:12:14 EST 2000 | Dean
Opeator point of view: 1. eassy to read menues. Organized structure. Large text and use of color to indicate important info status...green=good, yellow= warning, red=fatal etc. Simplicity rules in this realm. GUI are great for operations screens
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 06 21:24:09 EST 2002 | davef
How could you know if your printing process is capable or in control if you don't have a print measurement tool? You�re correct that you do need a measurement tool to determine if the process is capable or in control. A $1.5k microscope and some g
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 06 15:47:09 EDT 2006 | jbrower
Last week I had the opportunity to get a sample of AIM SN100C solder paste. The SN100C paste was very nice to work with. My initial observations was that the paste had a very light odor, much less than the Alpha UP78 paste that we are currently
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 05 16:13:12 EDT 2007 | Ben T
D?rty, I was actually under the same mission as you a little over a year ago, but have since given up on the impossible. I have however been developing software for the industry for the past year. I have made a BOM importing tool, which cleans the BO
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 15 13:39:06 EDT 2018 | gregp
Impact is the instantaneous force at the time the component first reaches the PCB. F=M*a....so the acceleration is the key factor. If charted on a graph it would look like a spike...higher force for a short duration. The placement force is typical
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 04 05:33:19 EST 2002 | ianchan
Hi, hope this helps : 1) BCC (bump chip carrier) production for us, was with a 5mils Stencil. The outer perimeter smallish pads are not much of a problems. For the central large pad, we split the paste print (corresponds to the Stencil apperture op
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 10 00:17:47 EST 2006 | Samir
Patrick, My sardonic wit comes from 11 years of being an embattled process guy who�s basically �seen it all� in electronics manufacturing. I�ve been witness to the �Seagull Managers�, uneducated managers lacking credentials, managers with MBAs but
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 26 19:27:04 EST 2010 | dcell_1t
you can find a very helpful guide here... http://www.oee.com/pdf/oee-pocket-guide.pdf We basically have a database where operator input the boards produced per hour and if he can't reach the "standard" he can input a downtime issue and assign to a
