Electronics Forum | Sun Jan 17 19:24:31 EST 1999 | Wayne Bracy
hey Steve Who's brush roller conveyor is that? Wayne | Hey Ya' Chrys!! | | One other thing I can think of when it comes to looking at FAB vendors to rate how good they are, might be something that you may not be too concerned with (dependin
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 15 18:03:28 EST 2004 | russ
I have used both 4 and 5 mil stencils for 10 mil round apertures. We don't have volume measurement capability but we measure height and the 4 mil appeared to have more paste and better uniformity from a visual standpoint than the 5 mil. The unfortu
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 14 11:09:09 EDT 2006 | Baer
You can contact Graphic Research and Brad Koor will tell you that his maintenance is actually less. He has been running MS2 for a year and a half (he was the first production beta). His people know how to maintain the process which is not hard but mu
Electronics Forum | Wed May 23 08:39:37 EDT 2012 | tony_d
Thomas, We evaluated several AOI machines and narrowed the field to two, YESTech and MIRTEC. We had an opportunity to work with both of these machines on our production floor. In our experience, the MIRTEC machine simply outperformed the competitive
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 19 12:37:15 EDT 1999 | Wolfgang Busko
| | | | | Hi, SMTASSY | | | | that�s what we do, soldering our double-sided-finepitch-BGA-and all-the-other-stuff-boards in vapourphase because it�s the only thing we have. | | First, we do not do real series produktion, only prototyping up to som
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 28 17:54:59 EDT 2000 | Steve Thomas
We're trying out 0603 packages on some 0805 footprints (at this stage only on some test boards) since our vendor tells us the 0805's are going to be getting harder to get, and more expensive to pay for. I understand the IPC footprint for the two is
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 07 11:21:38 EDT 1999 | Brian Wycoff
| | I need to perform shear tests on components that have been glued prior to wave soldering. Can any one recommend a shear tester and some standardized info on testing? We have had problems with poor glue bonds and would like to implement a test m
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 04 12:44:01 EST 1999 | SMTASSY
Hi, For hand placement you should see about 150-200 ppm of errors (solder, placement, values etc) on a board populated of types such as 1206, 0805, SOT, Tantalum etc. . As for solely wrong components (component at wrong location) you can usualy redu
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 15 18:56:56 EDT 2002 | davef
Hesitating after your shout-out for �DI water rinse experts�, Q1: �What is the FIX industrial standard?� A1: Never heard of �the FIX industrial standard�. There is no standard in the US electronic industry. The issue: * Is NOT the cleanliness of
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 07 09:32:14 EDT 2006 | tony_d
Hello Saaitk, I was recently tasked with selecting an AOI system for our company. We are a low to medium manufacturer as well. I looked at several different vendors and narrowed the field to Mirtec and Yestech. I found that the programming was v
