Electronics Forum | Wed May 06 21:48:41 EDT 2020 | SMTA-Robert
Has the pandemic and the economic fallout from it cause you and your company to rethink your China/Asia outsourcing strategy? Also have your thoughts changed regarding JIT/Kanban/Lean manufacturing practices in view of the present situation?
Electronics Forum | Thu May 07 01:09:02 EDT 2020 | kylehunter
We've definitely changed our bare board source. Now are using a mix of USA based and South Korean. Helps to have some extra options..
Electronics Forum | Fri May 08 20:29:09 EDT 2020 | gregoireg
I don't want to steal this thread so I have posted mine (in case a Mexico company read this...) https://smtnet.com/Forums/index.cfm?Thread_ID=22654
Electronics Forum | Sat May 16 17:57:50 EDT 2020 | SMTA-Robert
Did you get the second job mainly because of having a low price, or mainly because of your perseverence and successful completion of the first job? Do you think the sketchy documentation of the first job limited your customer's choices in the first
Electronics Forum | Thu May 14 15:43:12 EDT 2020 | boardhouse
Taiwan, Korea & Thailand have been safe options from China. Taiwan and Korea would be first choices. Thailand would be second, most Thailand facilities are at capacity due to taking in their China side production. So it may be a month or two before t
Electronics Forum | Fri May 15 11:59:05 EDT 2020 | stephendo
There are a couple of other countries that should be on your list to considered in at least some circumstances. Canada and The United States. I work for a CEM in Toronto, at the end of last year before all this, we had a largish job for a customer i
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 08 12:03:24 EDT 2017 | rameshraja
Hi, I need the RF 800 Flux Acid titration procedure and also require EPT of the same to add thinner ( RF 800 additive), i.e we are using the flux rf 800 for our wave soldering process having foam fluxer , after 2 hours we are taking sample from the
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 19 21:44:20 EDT 2007 | rfrog
The first thing that I would do is contact the smock manufacturer and ask them for advice on testing the smocks. ESD FROM A TO Z 2nd ed. (Kolyer) states that: smocks should have a resistivity of less than 10^12/sq and must not shed steel fibers.
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 06 09:28:35 EDT 2007 | larryp
Thanks for the help but I do have another question. First I guess that just the touching of the smock to the skin is anough to give the charge on the person a path to the smock. OK I can accept that if button up at the breast and sleeves. Now I kno
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 27 19:00:52 EST 2000 | Christopher Noonan
When the are up and running they are hard to beat, but when they go down they go down hard. Keep field service close. Don't get me wrong they're great machines and the company I used to work for had some of the first machines available. I come fro
