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AllSurplus announces Panasonic NPM-W P&P Auction ☀ November 11–23, 2021

SMTnet Express, November 11, 2021, Subscribers: 26,497, Companies: 11,460, Users: 26,919

Understanding the Cleaning Process for Automatic Stencil Printers

The automatic stencil wiper - first line of defense * The Printing process and why we need to focus on the wiping function * Frequency of wiping * Wiping options ...

Credits: ITW EAE

Evaluation of Under-Stencil Cleaning Papers

Solder paste screen printing is known to be one of the most difficult processes to quality assure in Printed Board Assembly (PBA) manufacturing. An important process step in solder paste screen printing is the under stencil cleaning process and one of the key materials ...

Credits: Ericsson AB

What Cannot Be Cleaned In a Stencil Cleaner

The stencil cleaner can be one of the most versatile tools on the manufacturing floor. It can be used to clean electronic modules in various stages of the manufacturing process. In fact, an automated stencil cleaner can clean just about anything you come up against in your PCB assembly process.

Credits: Austin American Technology

Cleanliness of Stencils and Cleaned Misprinted Circuit Boards

The effectiveness of cleaning stencils and misprinted/dirty printed circuit boards can be effectively monitored. This can be done by washing known clean circuit boards and then checking to see if they have stayed clean as a result of the washing process.

Credits: Research In Motion

Stencil Cleaning - A Practical Approach To Improving Yields And Maximizing Your Throughput

Main Points * Technologies for the job * More than a flat piece of Stainless * Compatibility * Solubility in stencil cleaning * Influencing factors * Best Practices to reduce misprints and increase yields

Credits: KYZEN Corporation

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Soldermask Screen Printing -- a few decades ago when I was a kid, I printed soldermask and legend inks on circuit boards. Printing solder mask, (PC-401, SR1000, LPI) I would use SM-1000 stencil material on 86 or 110 mesh. I've been trying to find sm-1000 but with no luck. does anybody know what the current stencil or is this old technology that is no longer used? Thanks

MVP Supra E AOI -Board Stitching Time Out -- I have an AOI machine that I am programming however I have ran into an issue with the board grab function. I an creating a new program and the screen should show the camera image and allow me to grab the board corners and create the images but all I get a loading wheel. I've been through this process a few times ...

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Heller Industries Will Feature the MK7 Reflow Oven Featured at IPC APEX 2022 Booth #1920

Heller Industries, a leading supplier of reflow soldering ovens for electronic manufacturing and pressure curing ovens for back-end semicondutor manufacturing, today announced they will be exhibiting their new MK7 reflow oven at the San Diego Conference Center January 25-27, 2022.... | Heller Industries

Baja Bid - November 11-17 2021 Online Equipment Auction

Baja Bid will be liquidating excess and unused assets via online auction. The bidding for this event will open promptly at 8:00am EST on November 11th and the closing will begin at 1:00 pm EST on November 17th.... | Baja Bid

NOW BIDDING - Panasonic NPM-W P&P Auction

Panasonic NPM-W Modular Placement Machine & Feeders Auction... | AllSurplus

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PCB ASSEMBLY

PCB CLEANING

Voidless / Vacuum Reflow Soldering Oven

Reflow

Heller

SimpleCoat Selective Conformal Coating

Coating Equipment

GPD Global

ICT Full Auto Stencil Printer

Printing

ICT

VIGON® NX 700 Next Gen pH Neutral Cleaning

Cleaning

Zestron

PCB INSPECTION

PCB SOFTWARE

MS-11 High Speed In-Line SPI System

Inspection

Mirtec

ProntoPLACE SMT & Thru-hole Software

Software

Unisoft

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GPD Global - Selective Conformal Coating System - SimpleCoat

FEATURED AUCTIONS	SPONSORED BY
AUCTION \| SMT Auction Featuring Equipment From The University of Alabama Huntsville & Others! AUCTIONEER \| XTECH Auctions TYPE \| On-Line Auction FEATURING \| SMT From University of Alabama Huntsville & others featuring Asemblon / Yahamma / Mg1 and Topaz II - Low usage surface mount technology equipment. SCHEDULE \| November 10 – November 11, 2021
AUCTION \| November 11-17, 2021 SMT Auction AUCTIONEER \| Baja Bid TYPE \| On-Line Auction FEATURING \| Items Including: 2014 Heller 1707 MKIII Reflow Oven, Heller 1500EXL Reflow Oven, 2008 Heller 1707 MKIII Reflow Oven, [2] 2010 Heller 1707 MKIII Reflow Ovens, [3] Ekra E4 Screen Printers, [2] Ekra E5 Screen Printers, Electrovert Aquastorm 100 Cleaner, 2010 Ace Kiss 104 Selective Solder, [3] Mirtec MV-3L Desktop AOI Machines, Universal Instruments 4990B SMT Pick & Place, [2] ... and More!!! SCHEDULE \| November 11 – 17, 2021
AUCTION \| Panasonic NPM-W Modular Placement Machine & Feeders AUCTIONEER \| AllSurplus TYPE \| On-Line Auction FEATURING \| Panasonic NPM-W Dual Lane, can be configured for both directions; 2 x heads - (1 x 8 Segment Head & 1 x 3 Segment Head); Carts - 1 Tray Feeder & Cart - 1; Ancillaries - Calibration kit - Spare Parts - Refer to the List in Document Section. - Maintenance head stand; Panasonic Feeders; Voltage: 415 Air: Yes, Length: 2.3, Width: 1.27, Height: 1.58 Meters ... and More!!! SCHEDULE \| November 11 – 23, 2021

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MART - Equipment For Sale

Panasonic NPM-W P&P

AllSurplus Panasonic NPM-W P&P

Pick and Place/Feeders

AllSurplus

Viscom S3088 Ultra Chrome 3D AOI

Lewis & Clark Viscom S3088 AOI

AOI / Automated Optical Inspection

Lewis & Clark

Ersa VERSAFLOW 3/45 Selective Solder

World Equipment Source - Ersa VERSAFLOW 3/45 Selective Solder

Selective Soldering Equipment

World Equipment Source, LLC

ASM Siemens Parts

KD Electronics - ASM Siemens Parts

Pick and Place/Feeders

KD Electronics

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MART - Equipment Wants

Mydata SMT P&P

Mydata SMT Placement Machine

Pick & Place /Feeders

Baja Bid

Assembleon MG-1R

World Equipment Source Assembleon MG-1R

Pick & Place/Feeders

World Equipment Source, LLC

Agilent 3070

Lewis & Clark Agilent 3070

In-Circuit Testers

Lewis & Clark

Agilent 3070

KD Electronics Agilent 3070

In-Circuit Testers

KD Electronics

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EVENTS

VIRTUAL SMTA International Conference | November 15 – 31 | SMTA

Wine Down Wednesday: Driving Innovation through Intrapreneurship | December 1 | SMTA

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Florham Park, NJ | Heller Industries Inc.

SMT Process Engineer

Milwaukee, WI | Cree Lighting

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Santa Cruz, CA | Dynamic Engineering

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Suwanee, GA | MacDermid Alpha Electronics Solutions

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Nashville, NC | ACDi

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