Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 07 22:19:55 EDT 2008 | davef
We assume you're being facaecious. If you think humiliating people drives your organization toward growth, development, and improvement; you're sadly mistaken. Your promotion of fear as motivation develops only one thing - anger towards you and the
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 09 08:32:11 EDT 2008 | davef
In our shop, a very large portion of the mistakes in the shop have their genesis with someone one other than the person making the mistake. Often, it is a chain of events that lead to the mistake. How do your picture posting systems drill down to de
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 09 18:25:32 EDT 2008 | jmelson
There are temperature controllers that can be configured for a "safety stat" mode, so they blow a fuse to the main heater control if it goes, say, 10C or some reasonable fluctuation above the setpoint. It might be a VERY reasonable thing to add to y
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 11 14:08:06 EDT 2008 | ck_the_flip
There is nothing wrong with working "remote hours". Why does everyone think we are slackers just because we work 4-5 hours a day at work. There is a ton of remote time spent thinking about work whilst driving too and from work, at home, working out
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 11 18:35:53 EDT 2008 | ratsalad
Ms. Chunks, I am an industrial engineering student at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee in Milwaukee, WI USA with many years of experience in the SMT assembly industry. By your description, an IE job with your company offers just the typ
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 07 11:46:29 EDT 2008 | aj
Hi All, Can anyone advise the spec for land size of a lead 0.2mm in width? I am placing a TQFP128 0.4mm pitch, the leads seem to be wider than the actual pads they are been placed on? I am also experiencing poor wetting on this part , it has NiPdAU
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 22 20:14:34 EDT 2008 | stevek
It's been my experience that most flat pack land patterns have far too much exposed toe. It accomplishes nothing for the reliability of the solderjoint. And often the ends of the leads are sheared and not very solderable anyway. Anything more than
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 09 12:43:18 EDT 2008 | grics
I think this depends on what you are reporting as defects... I would place my inspection first, team up my Touch-up/Rework into one category. If for any reason I need to hit a joint after leaving my oven, that to me is classified as a defect and s
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 09 15:42:56 EDT 2008 | slthomas
if I was going to operate that way, I'd combine Inspection/Touchup, and put rework off at another location. If you're pulling one panel out of the oven every 20 seconds, I wouldn't think you'd want to stop your line so your touchup person can perform
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 09 16:05:12 EDT 2008 | bkreiman
We are using a right-angle SMT power connector on a board. The connector has 4 leads and two board alignment pins. The layout for the board is such that 1 of the leads is not used and the pad for the lead is not connected to anything, not even grou
