Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 08 22:43:13 EDT 2001 | caldon
No wizard here just a troll....Sorry I can not spout a Fountain of information Like "The Dave F" but here is an additive..... Having worked at a Lab for testing Soaponifiers, cleanliness, and contamination when a customer says "we had a lab check it
Electronics Forum | Sat Jan 19 02:25:37 EST 2002 | ianchan
Hi, Have a board run, using 63/37 Water Souble (WS) process. during the reflow setup time, we had unsolder issues on a leadless bump chip carrier (BCC) IC level package. To rectify the unsolder rejects, we adjusted the reflow time from 25-55sec into
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 07 20:53:51 EST 2002 | davef
Regardless of the technique used for the mounting pad shape or definition, isolation of the plated through hole [PTH] from the mounting pad is important. If the PTH is contained within the mounting pad, solder will wick down the PTH. The amount of
Electronics Forum | Thu May 23 12:27:53 EDT 2002 | johnw
yngwie, are you getting a wave from the customer to say it's not your fault you fried the parts? Profiling's one of those things that is a pain to dobut it's one of the most important factors in the assembly processes. I've read and seen instances w
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 17 21:33:20 EDT 2002 | davef
Ken, Yes, when quality is good, increasing throughput of a bottlenecked resource [lowering costs] is a fine goal. [Wouldn't E Goldratt smile?] In MY real world, quality is not as good as it should be. We have: * Suppliers that do not do as asked.
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 31 01:54:06 EST 2002 | fastek
Call it extortion if you will but it will be the best money you will spend over the life of your machine. It is nothing compared to the cost of unexpected downtime you will incur....with no support to help you out of a jam. Think about it this way.
Electronics Forum | Sat Nov 02 19:07:45 EST 2002 | stefwitt
The small shop starting with a used machine and grow larger was not the target market of the OEM, I used to work for. This may sound harsh, but the cost of selling and servicing the equipment to a small shop is comparable much higher than to the Moto
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 03 14:48:11 EST 2003 | genny
I've never heard of a customer saying just 'we want decoupling caps'. Very interesting. In RF applications - frequencies 50MHz up into several GHz, the location of where they are put is just as important as what the value is. Decoupling caps are p
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 04 16:50:56 EST 2003 | msivigny
Hello Rohan, this is starting to date nearly 6 years ago but I will remember everything I can, we used a custom interface to input data and everything was stored in a very large database on a specific server only for quality data, I think we used Ora
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 05 12:23:31 EST 2003 | msivigny
Hello Phil, We did use an Oracle relational database with an Access front end to input and query data from the system for reports. We did not perform SPC with the Oracle dB. As the whole data collection process was completely customized, we hadn't im
