Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 16 14:37:42 EST 1999 | Steve Gregory
Hi Nancy! Just as Steve and Dean said, most printers have some sort of restrictions of what frame, where the image is positioned, ect. before the stencil will work in the printer. The two manufacturers that I'm most familiar with DEK and MPM do have
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 04 22:47:58 EDT 1998 | Dave F
| My company recently purchased 3 new Phillips CSM machines and is interested in buying a Screen Printer. The one problem we have is that we have to change setups three to four times a day. Due to the small runs of one type of boards that we do. My
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 01 15:18:58 EST 1999 | doug clement
| | My company recently purchased 3 new Phillips CSM machines and is interested in buying a Screen Printer. The one problem we have is that we have to change setups three to four times a day. Due to the small runs of one type of boards that we do.
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 19 09:34:08 EDT 2001 | jschake
Both FormFlex and Grid-lok tooling systems are marketed as compliant tooling systems. Both are able to conform to the variations of the topography on the bottomside of a substrate to provide full support during printing of 2nd side assembly. The ba
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 15 17:06:04 EST 2002 | pjc
The Mydata machine's Y-axis moving does not affect parts already placed on the board. The machine has very sophisticated acceleration and deceleration to account for this. There are many users of Mydata machines running 0.3mm pitch and large heavy pa
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 22 18:40:14 EDT 2002 | Steve Townsend
It's not impossible to balance in a non-repetitive situation. You'll need to investigate mix-model JIT methods. It takes more effort, but it is very possible. First is to figure out which assemblies are going to be the most similiar, which ones use
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 10 01:25:25 EDT 2002 | Ken Bliss
By centralizing to your stockroom all your feeder setups so that one team is assigned to just that, to keep all your 7 lines up and running will reduce the amount of personnel you need and increase throughput. Keep in mind a key factor. The bottlen
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 09 00:06:34 EDT 2002 | kenbliss
One thing that is a constant in the electronics assembly world is change. What ever you setup now be sure to think about what might change in the not to distant future. My experience says that you want ESD flooring, although cost of course is a nec
Electronics Forum | Sun Aug 11 22:28:07 EDT 2002 | jersbo
a: charges are typically set by how many different part numbers you have(setup).. and how many placements there are(ie number of locations parts are to be placed) if there are 3 machines inline that does not matter.. its the amount of parts placed an
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 20 10:27:21 EDT 2002 | Dick Russell
Wow, you have received a lot of suggestions and opinions. Here is one more for the record. First try to improve the performance of your sub-contractor. While you are doing that start bringing in low quantities of parts to develop your in-house cap