Electronics Forum | Sat Mar 24 17:55:25 EDT 2007 | colormaker
Dear forum We are in the market for a new /used machine pick place machine with 15 mil accuracy. We have been using a quad 4C for 7 years and it seems like each week we put more money into repairs. I have looking into several machines but it seem l
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 27 16:29:52 EDT 2007 | dyoungquist
We are a high mix - low/medium volume company running an older MyData upgraded TP9 machine. It does a good job placing 20 mil pitch and 0402 components. We have not tried to place 15 mil pitch. Breakdowns/repairs have been relatively low consideri
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 29 15:09:31 EDT 2007 | dphilbrick
We have Military and Medical companies that want us to track that so that if a particular unit fails we can determin if rework was the cause. Otherwise you are dealing with a QM that thinks they're real smart and your not! I suspect if you ask them w
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 11 15:56:54 EDT 2007 | egrice
CECIL, I am sorry to hear that you had a bad experience with ERSA. However, one bad experience does not mean that ERSA is a bad company. On the smaller BGA Rework systems, sometimes the sales reps do the installations. Was this the case? If so,
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 29 14:46:16 EDT 2007 | jmelson
Oh, I should have been more specific on microscopes. I have a Bausch & Lomb StereoZoom 5 and an old Olympus. They both work pretty well. I think the Olympus has a little better depth of field, but the B&L has better contrast. (Maybe the Olympus j
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 30 08:46:53 EDT 2007 | electronhose
I just purchased some PACE ST-25 systems for basic soldering and they work great. It was a deal at $155 each and they heat up FAST! Tips are around $6 each so the whole system is affordable. A step up for rework jobs would be the Metcal MX systems.
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 06 08:45:48 EDT 2007 | davef
UNDERFILL The design of the component and the end-use environment drive the requirement fot underfill. Here is a good introduction: http://www.asymtek.com/news/articles/2002_globaltronics_csp_and_fcuf.pdf Google for more. We have no relationship, n
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 05 13:40:15 EDT 2007 | slthomas
"I just need better reasons than it [...] increases defect probability." If that's not enough, you have bigger problems. Have you seen any rework/repair that was generated by this handling gem? Does your company profess to build to IPC specificati
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 20 12:21:23 EDT 2007 | patrickbruneel
MD, I totally agree with you A couple of years ago we had an ISO auditor in our company who was QC manager at Lockheed Martin. At lunch break we were discussing the erosion of American manufacturing and the effects outsourcing had on our economy. H
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 26 16:55:31 EDT 2007 | ratsalad
I am guessing Theresa is saying when that some SMT parts are soldered (not glued) very close to some PTH parts. So close that they can't effectively mask the SMT parts and have an opening for the PTH part. At the company where I work, we've been tr
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