Electronics Forum | Wed May 17 20:51:34 EDT 2000 | Dave F
Janet: What a great adventure you're starting!!!! For newbies: * Buy Ray Prasad's "Surface Mount Technology" book. * Attend RP's introductory course at NEPCON (or where ever) it's as good as anyone's. * Subscribe to "SMT" and "Circuits Assembly"
Electronics Forum | Sat May 20 15:54:47 EDT 2000 | Earl Moon
Nancy, After all our time together you grew to know me too well. But damn, just when I thought I was out of this thing, you have to pull me back in again. See you did learn a lot and now you've given something back very valuable, not to me (I mean,
Electronics Forum | Wed May 17 20:37:08 EDT 2000 | Steve
At our facility, we process FR-4 boards for PCMCIA cards (0.020"). The key for us is dedicated fixturing for stencil printing and fixturing for reflow soldering. We are working closely with our customer to better improve panel design, but other than
Electronics Forum | Wed May 24 13:42:27 EDT 2000 | John McGriff
We just had a similar problem with misplacement, and it turned out that the designers had not put the local fiducials in the right places. I am told that placement machines typically recalculate the component centroid to be at the center of a line b
Electronics Forum | Wed May 17 13:00:52 EDT 2000 | Mike F
I just wanted to add a comment to the newbies, that dross must be recycled or it is considered a hazardous waste by the EPA. If you recycle it you can avoid a lot of documentation requirements needed for hazardous wastes, but you still need to have d
Electronics Forum | Tue May 16 16:54:14 EDT 2000 | Ashok Dhawan
For a typical assembly facility ( where assembly of circuit cards and shelves is carried out), what are usual recommendation for : 1.Ambient conditions ( Temp and Relative Humidity) 2.Use of Smocks If humidity is less than 40%, what are special prov
Electronics Forum | Wed May 17 12:41:41 EDT 2000 | Dave K
2K at 12 inches seems high considering that degradation can take place at anything over 200v. If I recall correctly we required at least 3 feet of distance. It's been a while since I've been an ESD coordinator. Thank god that chapter in my life
Electronics Forum | Tue May 16 14:13:50 EDT 2000 | Keith Luke
Due to unforeseen circumstances the May 19th OnBoard Forum with Charles Harper has been postponed until Tuesday, June 6th, from 12 to 5PM Eastern Time. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause, and look forward to welcoming SMTneters to our
Electronics Forum | Tue May 16 12:01:43 EDT 2000 | Wolfgang Busko
Michael, I back up your wishes for better access to the contents of the archive and also discussions on new trends and techniques. It goes into the direction Earl and Dave were talking about in a recent thread or should I say wish for this site since
Electronics Forum | Mon May 15 13:55:00 EDT 2000 | Aldo
We are in the process of researching manual or low cost automatic Tape and Reel equipment. I have heard about V-tek and Systemation. I would appreciate if someone can tell me any problems or virtues of theses two brands that have been experienced. Al