Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 31 10:40:51 EST 2008 | slthomas
All points taken. I appreciate Doug's perspective although I'm not confident enough in our current situation to apply that philosophy whole heartedly. I am well aware that inspection capability and rework tools are supposed to be a last resort, but I
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 12 16:16:26 EST 2008 | bharath02
I am planning on starting a SMT plant to obtain local orders to start with in an developing country. I would assume a stencil printer, couple of chipshooters, couple of pick and place machine, a reflow oven, ICT and a functional tester as the startin
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 20 12:03:25 EDT 2008 | mmjm_1099
Can someone please shed some light on a QP picking problem I am having? It seems I am having to add more and more z offsets in the programs and unsure why. I have to go in and add 0.4 mm into the Z pick because the nozzle isn�t coming down enough. Wh
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 | Fri Jul 25 14:36:28 EDT 2008 | wavemasterlarry
Crap dang it! This new computer I got off a guy at the vette show is really getting to me. Sorry about my earlier post above. The reason I am here is because there seems to be a need. I rescanned my wave creds for eveyrone. And no I am not posti
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 08 16:51:51 EDT 2008 | mgc
Dear Ethan, I am sorry to learn that you are having problems with these feeders. If you can send me your contact information I would like to follow-up with you and learn more about the issues you are experiencing. I am sure that you know that these f
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 16 16:45:44 EDT 2008 | trynders
Thanks for the response! I thought is was odd the component vendor chose SAC for a lead frame finish. I am in the Military world, and things have been difficult to control from a lead-free standpoint. I have not been able to find any studies on SAC
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 11 16:30:08 EST 2008 | naynayno
Occasionally solder mask thickness is believed to be the cause of gasketing challenges during paste printing. We currently specific IPC-SM-840 on our fab drawings but this provides no limits or guidelines on thickness. I do not want to cause an unr
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 12 13:00:58 EST 2008 | cisridn
I have to build test fixtures for RF Power transistors. These components generate alot of heat so the PCB is soldered to a baseplate. The problem I am having is that I am getting too much solder flowing thru the via's and flooding the topside of th
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 13 20:24:30 EST 2008 | snsmt
Right now, I am mostly getting .pho (gerber files) and .asc (pads) but i don't have anything to convert it to excel or text files so that Cad2cad can read it. I have camtastic! 2000, but i haven't figured out a way to convert it. I want to able to e
