Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 17 14:52:25 EDT 2012 | rway
1) Is there something your design/pcb Engineer can do to lay the array out a little better for the wave (i.e. add substrates, board thickness)? 2)What do you mean by material movement? Single piece/continuous flow. 3) Shouldn't be too hard. You
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 14 09:01:09 EDT 2004 | jdumont
Morning all, can anyone point me in the right direction. Recently our NO2 generator (bought before I was here) for our IC parts cabinets went bad. It will cost around $6000 to replace. I am just looking for some tech papers or anything to help sub
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 31 14:54:30 EDT 2007 | rpadilla
Hello AJ, The previous answers are correct; Sn has seen a spike in price ever since RoHs was implemented. Furthermore, the other alloys that have been used to replace Pb (because of RoHs) have also seen an increase in price. Sadly these material rep
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 06 14:05:22 EDT 2000 | Jeff Sanchez
Ray, I don't know for sure what exact data Ceeris used to come up with their figures. Did they account for shipping? Was the rework done by expensive equipment? When I read your thre
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 02 16:30:42 EDT 2000 | Michael Parker
I found a reference to Cost of Conversion earlier this year. Basically, the average cost to convert a single component from raw materials to assembled goods is $.08, just after pick and place. After placement and before reflow, repair (solder paste r
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 09 08:54:42 EST 2000 | pascal MATHIEU
Hello friends , in order to try to reduce our labour cost , we are thinking to replace manual placementof PTH COMPONENTS by automatic unit which 'll be able to place relays ,and connectors . is there anybody on this forum to advise us on this topi
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 15 22:06:15 EDT 2000 | Dreamsniper
Hi Raeto, 1. You do not have reflow oven. This means that you are not running Surface Mount Technology in your shop floor...am I correct? Why do you plan to have SMD's under your PCB's ? Can't you replace them with their PTH counter part and have th
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 28 08:27:55 EDT 1999 | Earl Moon
| if anyone has used or has one of these bga rework stations please give me your opinion on them. I am planning on using the sytem for not only rework but also low volume prototype production for hand built 1 or 2 qty pcb's, so ease of use is impor
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 03 11:20:15 EST 2000 | John O'Brien
This is getting to be a more common practice, especially with the application of a 2-D bar code directly to the board (via laser, ink jet,etc.) Some really major companies are jumping on the bandwagon because it also allows treating each board as a l
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 07 15:28:13 EDT 1999 | Earl Moon
Listed below are the issues Viking has been experiencing since the installation of the Proflow Head: 1. After installing new 350mm Wiper foil with metal strip glued on it, It worked for about a week and suddenly metal stri
