Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 28 08:07:44 EST 2002 | JohnW
Sorry I keep forgetting you lot are backwards in the old metric system :0) anyhoo, yes IPC, the bastions of right well as long as your board is only 1.6mm thick (sorry 62mils)say that you need 75% min general and 50% on ground planes. I'd like to se
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 15 13:24:44 EST 2002 | Mike Konrad
Hi Dave, To close-loop or not to close-loop, that is the question� I can not speak for all machines, but in our case, close-loop systems are actually less costly to operate than open-loop systems (we make both). First, determine the volume of wate
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 19 13:37:48 EST 2002 | PeteC
When evaluating AOI you must first define what type of inspections you want the system to perform, pre-solder or post-solder. What separates many mfgs. of these systems is how effective they are at finding post solder defects. This is where camera re
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 26 18:19:55 EST 2002 | davef
Is this revisionist history? Have you been breathing deeply, while eating corn doodles? Let me knock-down a couple of Zoloft. OK. Here�s the way I remember things � * UIC, Dynapert, and Amistar made the best PTH insertion equipment on the planet.
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 25 21:50:10 EST 2002 | davef
Some of this was copped from Fred. There are numerous package types that now fall under the rubric of land grid array [LGA]. Land grid devices [ie, Bumped Chip Carrier� [BCC], LGA, Quad Flat-pack No-lead [QFN], MicroLeadFrame�, etc] are essentially
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 09 21:40:26 EDT 2002 | ianchan
We are a local enterprise with limited resources, just like you described, so hope this experience sharing helps : we place a production Visual Mechanical Inspection (VMI) inspector at the end of each Reflow Oven area, complete with magnify scope 30
Electronics Forum | Thu May 09 17:07:56 EDT 2002 | davef
Troubles, troubles, troubles. If it weren�t for bad luck, I wouldn't no luck at all, eh? Tough business. Comments on your trouble are: * On machine vision errors from less than ideal capacitors: This is life. Reprogram your machine to either wid
Electronics Forum | Wed May 08 23:18:58 EDT 2002 | ianchan
Hi mates, have this SMT production issue : A) We have a leadless-chip-carrier(LCC) IC package that is classified under the Land-Grid-Array(LGA) package family. B) The LCC is 4mm x 4mm, and has 28 tin plated pads located beneath the outside perimet
Electronics Forum | Thu May 30 10:31:03 EDT 2002 | robbied
Hi Yannick. This is an issue that we are just recently getting into but here is some ifo that I have gathered so far. I have seen/ used 2 different rework machines. The one we have bought is a 'PACE TF2000' which was at the lower cost end of the mar
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 23 12:02:17 EDT 2002 | gdstanton
Ken, Excellent discussion!!! I've also seen this problem. Spent and am still spending significant time policing. I don't think it is just a buyer issue though. There are many dimensions to the problem. Suppliers, Engineering, Manufacturing, and