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MRP / ERP Systems

Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 27 20:17:54 EST 2006 | SJ

Could anyone kindly share any good/bad experiences that they have with their MRP / ERP systems in a small-mid size contract manufacturer environment? We've been using DBA Classic but is looking for a more scalable, robust system. Our main concern i

Automated Conformal Coating Process Control

Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 07 07:56:54 EST 2006 | amol_kane

Hi, I have a PVA conformal coating machine. Does anyone out there have a method to control the process once it is in the automated mode? my problem is that eventually the coating gets into the keep out areas a little bit and causes issues. is anyone

Novastar or Technical LeadFree Wave

Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 15 13:00:08 EST 2006 | jdumont

Hi Paul, I have been to the Novastar mfg plant in Penn. and to a demo of the TD Nu Era model also in Penn at Advanced Competitiveness Institute. After seeing both we have decided to go with the TD model. Im not sure where you are located but the regi

Question about leaded parts used in leadfree soldering process

Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 14 07:59:42 EDT 2006 | amol_kane

Hi russ, I am in the process of developing a "hybrid" reflow profile to solder a board that has LF BGAs and leaded solder. Have you encountered a similar situation before? if so what was the "safe" top side temp for the leaded components that was set

I need a QUAD QSP-2 Question answered

Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 07 16:12:37 EDT 2006 | craig_83

I would like to freeze feeders on a global basis. I am tired of table changeovers everytime I run a different board. A good example is today I ran 1 board which went well. I wanted to run a board behind it that had 99% the same parts. I am not necess

White residue inside the reflow oven

Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 11 11:47:56 EDT 2006 | amol_kane

Hi SMTnetters, I have a white residue coating all over my reflow oven innards (almost looks like white fungus). How can I absolutely be certain that it’s flux and not anything else?are there any tests available for this? I am planning to check the ov

Lead Free and ICT

Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 03 03:35:16 EDT 2006 | mika

Yes we do have a problem with this. We have by now investigate numerous lead/RoHS PCBA:s The RoHS boards are by far the most difficult one's to probe and test. Our people at the "test area" including Flying Probe and ICT they spend a lot of time to t

Flux Compatibility Issues....

Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 05 11:51:40 EDT 2006 | jdumont

I was wondering if anyone could help point me in the right direction on this one. This morning I discovered that our hand solder operators have been using the liquid wave solder flux for some hand soldering operations. We are using Kester 245 63/37 n

Assembl�on feeders

Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 14 01:24:14 EDT 2006 | AR

Thanks ;) We even did some product development on that one. We took a normal bar of wave soldering alloy, sawed a suitable length off it and drilled a carefully measured hole through the bit of solder. The hole is wide enough so that the blister tap

MyData TM8FC magazines

Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 26 09:46:29 EDT 2006 | jem

My company also uses the TM8C (all feeders) with the same problem as Paul. The 0402's do exactly the same as he desribes.The SMT operators are correcting the placement data all the time when using 0402 but to no avail. Chris What do you mean by the


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