Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 05 11:37:38 EDT 2006 | dougs
I my last company i had to battle all the time for tooling to set up jobs, i asked the product engineering manager to include extra panels in the costs for NPI to be used as reflow profiling panels, he told me they had never needed these before and t
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 18 16:40:09 EDT 2006 | dphilbrick
We have a system where when we set up the line to run a job before the first part is placed an auditor verifies we have all the correct parts loaded on the machines in thier correct locations. We then run a first article. The board is inspected to in
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 27 12:20:33 EDT 2006 | David
Hello all, We have customer who wants to produce boards 0.4 mm thick. But they have not allowed to put into the panel. Board has not regular shape so without pallet it is not possible to produce. I made pallet where is pocket the same shape as boar
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 01 19:52:19 EDT 2006 | darby
If your frame size is 730mm x 730mm then you can't move it left or right. If it smaller than that then the frame adapter will give you more leeway. I am not too sure by what you mean by "If I had a 6" board, and a stencil with cut-outs for both side
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 25 07:38:12 EDT 2006 | CL
Hi CP, I used to work for a flex circuit manufacturer. I am at a CM now and am we have started building RoHS production status assemblies. I personally think flex circuits will have a difficult time with the required temps for RoHS. I spoke to someo
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 30 07:45:08 EDT 2006 | davef
18-30*C, 30-70%RH * Particle count: ** Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (IEST) sets up the criteria and measurement methods to determine cleanroom class [eg, 10, 100, 1000, etc]. Consult their web site and perhaps take one of their
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 14 05:11:29 EDT 2006 | ?
All, We are a contract manuf. for electronics. Since changeover to RoHS we still have customers due to one thing or the other telling us to run Non-RoHS. They are not exempt. What do we do ? do we tell them that we are not running their boards and
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 18 12:36:59 EDT 2006 | slthomas
A customer specs .1% thin film 0805s on one product. The parts that came in the kit were marked 1002, and I suspect they were just 1%ers that were sorted for the tighter tolerance. We were a few short, ordered the balance and got parts marked 103 w
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 28 12:17:58 EST 2007 | rob_thomas
So It happens that we are having an installation crew here working on our second wave solder machine. It is a Vitronics Soltec that we bought for lead free processing. I personally used Ekra and vitronics and Electrovert at other companies. I believ
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 05 12:52:34 EDT 2006 | Mario Scalzo, SMT CPE
Good afternoon! Typically, we normally recommend testing the pot, and adding either Sn/Ag or just Sn to keep it at bay. One nice thing about the solubility of Cu in Sn based alloys is that it should reach a theoretical upper limit of about 0.1%. I
