Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 30 13:41:51 EDT 2014 | cyber_wolf
In 25 years of profiling, I have never seen a reflow profile make TOMBSTONES better. I have had "experts" come in an adjust our ovens to the "magic profile." The AOI data has never shown improvement from profile changes. EVER...EVER. As long as you
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 13 08:43:56 EDT 2014 | rob
Hi Larry, Picture a old lady with a set of knitting needles with leads attached to them, pressing the needles into different points of the PCB (pads, test points or component leads) and measuring resistance, inductance, waveforms etc between these p
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 18 09:54:49 EST 2014 | gregp
Hi Adam, Good question. I know I am seeking a lot of details. Here's the deal. Five years ago I acquired the assets of Contact Systems. Since then I have been re-manufacturing the CS-400E machine which if you are not familiar with is a light guid
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 04 10:46:42 EST 2014 | spoiltforchoice
I have no idea what your Festo looked like. But the ability to move a component freely in xyz and rotate it is what you get from a typical manual placement station. You don't get that with tweezers or vacuum pickup pens. I've seen people make all so
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 12 21:31:26 EST 2015 | warwolf
The closer your inspection the more defects you will find, the more rework you do the possible cost you will add and the potential increase of damage you could do to your products if rework is not up to a machine copyable standard. "Is there any in
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 21 14:50:30 EST 2015 | rwa71122
Hello All, First, I am new to this forum, so please excuse any mistakes I make in this post. We have had much success in securing good suppliers for our CNC machined components using the reverse auction site MFG.com. Does anyone know of any simila
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 23 16:11:38 EST 2015 | rgduval
Charlie, For the 300 cylinder (the largest Airgas sells), it's going to cost about $66/cylinder for the gas (plus delivery charges). They also charge a $99/year lease for the cylinder. Based on those costs, and a low-end N2 generator system that I
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 09 09:00:17 EST 2015 | jax
Outside the MSD issues stated already (and I cannot provide a exact time not knowing multiple factors like Humidity levels, temps, exposure times, etc...) OSP might be the very worst finish to use in this scenario of side 1 / store on a shelf / side
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 12 10:06:00 EST 2015 | rgduval
Funny, I just had this discussion on LinkedIn. Must be the season. It is always acceptable and preferably to profile every assembly, if you have the time, resources, and equipment to do it. That is the only way to get the most accurate information
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 16 22:34:24 EST 2015 | anvil1021
WEll unfortunately I know the answer to your dilemma all too well and I will make it easy for you. The Koh Young takes a miracle to program and the Mirtec has a superior software and 3D system when you have the MV9 system. Just to day I was measuring