Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 26 08:02:30 EST 2002 | cyber_wolf
I know that there is an IPC spec. for board pad size design for BGA components. After a little research we have found that recommendations vary from component manufacturers to board houses. (These recommendations are different than what IPC says....)
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 13 13:51:38 EDT 2002 | kenbliss
I recently saw an ad in a major trade magazine that stated: �about 60%of all printed circuit board manufacturing defects are due to stencil printing� I would like to hear comments from people that are running SMT lines, is this fact and if it is, w
Electronics Forum | Mon May 05 22:24:17 EDT 2003 | jlipton
We are investigating a system, using 2-D matrix code, that will identify and track every PCB throughout our factory, starting from bare board. As a low-medium volume manufacturer, would labels or laser marking be more cost-effective? How difficult is
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 09 00:51:33 EDT 2003 | iman
everyone made good observations in the arena of improvements. being rather pessimistic today, I'd like to say the one core area of little (if none at all) improvement is the over-reliance of human (aid/non-aid) inspection of SMT output soldering de
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 24 09:03:34 EDT 2003 | Bill
Has anybody had to replace the rear LCD monitor on a 4796 HSP chipshooter? Universal is quoting 10k (!) for a new one as they are hard to locate. Patlite (the LCD manufacturer) has discontinued the unit GSC-1000ARS-W and is unable to help. If an
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 27 11:36:41 EDT 2005 | Rob
Why? All major component manufacturers' reels come with barcodes already on them or if not they (& their distributors) are set up to issue them, requiring no additional work or cost to fit the process, but I don't know of anyone who ships with RFID
Electronics Forum | Thu May 06 10:52:08 EDT 2004 | John S
Many component manufacturers are moving to Pb free terminations. I've been doing a literature study of Pb free processing and have found several articles that indicate Pb-free paste with Sn/Pb terminations leads to early fatigue failures. Does anyo
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 29 07:35:42 EDT 2004 | Paddy
Hello all, I am looking at doing some trials with underfill under 1mm pitch BGA devices. Can anybody share any good / bad experience with this process ? Also I probably will not be in a position to procure automated equipment so are there any man
Electronics Forum | Sat Nov 06 07:22:36 EST 2004 | Steve
Hello all you knowledgeable people. Got a customer who makes components. Asked the question what are manufacturers of components plating their lead with? Tin? Nickel? I heard possibly Paladium but don't know much about paladium. And of course the big
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 18 11:18:27 EDT 2005 | dopoint
Established in 2000 for feeder manufacture , we will begin to set up own sales channel for replacement of original Fuji Feeder , Looking forward to establish business relationship with you directly. Based on our advanced product line and test li
