Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 12 14:14:17 EDT 2000 | celiav
I have 2 contract manufacturers who have recently switched to immersion tin and both are experiencing problems. One supplier is having problems reflowing the solder in the oven, while the other is having insufficient hole fill at wave solder. Both ha
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 12 16:33:39 EDT 2000 | Mark Charlton
We just went through a difficult time processing SMT immersion white tins PCA's and found the following: 1. FAB vendor had a degraded tin solution resulting in improper plating thickness 2. FAB vendor was not using the proper cleaning process Get
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 12 00:50:45 EDT 2000 | Vinesh Gandhi
We are a medium sized Contract manufacturing house operating under High mix High Volume conditions. We are planning to buy an Automatic inspection equipment for Post reflow inspection. One apprehension is that I have not seen these systems being us
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 31 13:50:27 EDT 2000 | debandrick
Mike, with all due respect, the customer service that MVT provides is poor at best...more accurately non existent. Our company has had more correspondence with their anwering service than any living breathing personell. The GS-1 has some inherent f
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 03 01:33:29 EDT 2000 | keihodgson
A.O.I. machine in use by my company is made by Cyberoptics and is called a Kestra. It inspsects boards prior to the reflow oven and highligts missing parts,mis-placed parts, wrong parts( by looking at any text on the device that you define, or by ori
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 21 15:26:59 EDT 2000 | Boca
You're going in the direction of fab improvement, a great direction. But in another direction; If you're already in a carrier, how about using a skyhook of some sort to support the middle of the fab from the top side? In some cases you can put fine
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 13 04:56:29 EDT 2000 | dutkell
John, I totally agree with you on all your above comments. You obviously have a real grasp of your subject, and are very knowledgeable. My colleague and I would like to take this opportunity to request information on personnel ' training' aspects re
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 11 10:10:55 EDT 2000 | John Thorup
Low static Kapton dots are available from Shercon (www.shercon.com) and through many distributors like com-kyl. Purpose specific dots are available from Circuit Technology Center as TD-250 Tape Dots. (www.circuittechcenter.com). Consider also The Pr
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 11 03:32:16 EDT 2000 | Charles Stringer
Can anybody advise where I can get the full SMEMA interface specification. I need to move about an old line and interface to Siemens Siplace which I understand is not true Smema - I have a spec for the Siplace interface - I now just need one for Smem
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 10 15:13:56 EDT 2000 | Mark Charlton
I know it's been brought up a thousand times before but after an hour of searching the archives I'm taking a short-cut. When processing one side of a double-sided assembly with adhesive, should the adhesive side be processed first or should "side" c
