Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 04 15:53:49 EST 2002 | kenBliss
Hi Steve I understand your point, the comments on the thread of which are slightly off of the original posted question but it still is handling. Handling is handling. If you pick up a board from one conveyor just to put on another conveyor that is
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 11 22:59:33 EST 2003 | davef
As others have stated, there are a few other things in the aveage assembly shop that are much more scary that a reflow oven. For instance, we have a wonderful wave soldering machine and w've been doing that kind of stuff for tens of years, but every
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 13 14:34:31 EST 2006 | pjc
The best way to compare is ask each machine company to bring their machine in for a demo. Since they are bench-top machines, they are easy to transport. Pick one of your boards for them to run. Don't send any board data ahead of time. When they come
Electronics Forum | Fri May 26 06:48:11 EDT 2006 | Mity-C
Good Morning, We also have several Mirtec M2HTL's. They have been responsible for taking SMT off of the defect radar screen. We are also using one to verify the through hole auto insert process. I have been told by our President that the Mirtec's we
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 03 19:34:17 EDT 2006 | davef
You might consider an oxygen monitor (or lack of oxygen monitor). A fast response-rate analyzer should be used. There are several types of analyzers on the market and each has different limitations. * If you are looking for a measurement ranging fr
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 22 15:41:39 EDT 2007 | davef
Bruno The real question about your troop using Kester 951 wave solder flux on boards is: how is the flux applied and controlled. See, when you apply this flux with your wave solder fluxer, it is ideally applied in a metered fashion with your fluxer
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 17 08:58:21 EST 2007 | Frank
You can spend a couple grand on a manual screen printer, or do what I did back in the day: place the board on the work bench and lay the stencil on the board. If you can hold it steady enough you can use a putty knife to apply your paste. For the s
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 04 13:03:05 EDT 2008 | realchunks
Some use small cleaners but I have always used the stencil washer. Most stencil washers come with a basket of some kind of board holder (or via holder - depending on how technical you want to get). Buying a stencil cleaner is hard to justify just f
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 09 09:18:09 EST 2009 | meritajs
I absolute agree with Adlsmt that your subcontractor was slipshod worker. It’s impossible for normal subcontractor make such fault. For last 15 years I worked for subcontractor firm here in Riga Latvia. Our company was not very advanced. As I said be
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 23 07:16:46 EDT 2010 | deanm
We are a small company of 110 people and I am the only manufacturing engineer. We have "work cells", but they are not time balanced like a true work cell would be; they are a group of primarily benches arranged to build a particular product(s). More
