Electronics Forum | Sat Mar 24 07:07:52 EDT 2007 | stefi
Hi, Thanks for the reply, The fiducial which posed problems is a 1 mm diameter gold plated circle fiducial. The problem with this is that the vision system sees it darker than the surrounding area. The surrounding area is all copper covered with th
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 18 09:22:12 EDT 2007 | ed_faranda
You're on the right track. 99% of the time, it is caused by a feeder not seating correctly. Check and ensure that all your tape covers are down and LOCKED (very important). Which type of feeders are you using Q or K? One thing I have found with K
Electronics Forum | Sat Sep 29 09:19:28 EDT 2007 | davef
For people with a statistics background, using Minitab, SAS, Statgraphics, or Statistica is easy. However, for many others it is not so easy. Amoung, DOE software packages compatible with Microsoft Excel are: SPX XL [$250], DOE KISS [$150], DOE PRO
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 01 21:44:32 EDT 2007 | daxman
Sorry everyone...you all seem to be fond of the MyData machines. I just had to make a comment. We had a TP9 for about 2 years. It rarely got used because of the terrible programming interface..When compared to Fuji Flexa and Fuji machines, we reall
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 30 08:32:16 EDT 2008 | grics
Earlier this month our organization began researching how turn our facility into a paperless manufacturing floor. The scope ended up widening into a much larger project. During our research we found 2 software companies so far that are pretty impre
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 11 12:17:16 EST 2008 | bmaheu
Setting up a PCB washing "system" and the facilities required for a cost effective and repeatable cleaning process depend heavily on the application (water soluble versus chemistry cleaning), (batch cleaner versus ln-line) and local factors (quality
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 19 14:00:34 EST 2009 | jwolvans
Thank you for the customer's perspective, Alien. We actually send a short "wish-list" to our customers and includes such necessities as: 1. BOM. Must be Rev-controlled and contain, at minimum, a useable part numbering scheme, adequate description fi
Electronics Forum | Fri May 01 08:15:36 EDT 2009 | davef
Scavenging Methods [Improve Solder Scavenging of Large Area-array Sites, SMT, Laurence Harvilchuck, process research engineer, Unovis Solutions, harvilch@unovis-solutions.com] Two common methods exist for scavenging residual solder on the site for s
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 03 14:16:59 EST 2010 | davef
First, we expect that your equipment supplier would help you with this. Then again with lots of used equipment flying around, some of the basic stuff often gets pushed to the back of the bus. Second, here is a clip and paste on the basics of equipm
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 07 15:33:08 EDT 2010 | bderks
Hi, I'm working at a very small electronics assembly firm and we need to get a better thermal profile of our reflow and solder wave ovens. Our firm is part of a larger firm that was set up to help handicapped people find work in the Netherlands. Yo
