Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 23 14:17:47 EST 2000 | Finepitch Services
Stuart, My suggestion is a DFM meeting (most of the process people dream about a meeting like this, and luckily, I've been to a few) with: - project manager (if there's one) - customer service rep (annual volume, lot size, product life) - smt proce
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 17 14:10:37 EST 2000 | C.K.
I'd have to agree with JAX here. This forum is intended to be a "Technical Bulletin / Newsgroup" and nothing else. Truthfully, these posts of the "old-timers" announcing their departures is getting..well.....OLD. I hate to see the Old-timers leave
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 08 09:07:22 EST 2001 | Hussman
OK, without knowing the specifics, why does everyone blame the oven? Most solder balls occur around R's and C's in almost every shop I've been to. The best place to start looking is the screen printer - not the oven. Sure the oven is the last proc
Electronics Forum | Sat Feb 24 14:22:53 EST 2001 | johnthor
Well, here I am working Saturday. Seems my production Supervisor had the nerve to get sick on an overtime weekend and, for some peculiar reason, the execs expect the numbers to be met anyway. Go figure! Let me backtrack and clarify that it was th
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 14 17:11:57 EST 2001 | davef
First, x-ray inspection machines have a wide range of capilities. Resolution is a key measure of a machine's ability to "distinguish" features. People say that some x-ray inspection machines have the ability to position the board being inspected at
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 28 11:53:50 EST 2001 | Steve
Take the leap of faith my friend!! Buy the AOI and watch all of your problems disappear. Okay, so I exaggerated a bit. Let me tell you the real story. We purchased a CR Technology RTI6500 almost two years ago. We chose the CR Tech unit because it wa
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 29 10:51:47 EST 2001 | Deon Nungaray
Hello Phil, AOI equipment has been around for a number of years. I remember evaluating a machine around 5 years ago. At this time the system was not able to learn right side up or upside down characters. Well, the newer systems have come a long way.
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 26 13:26:53 EDT 2000 | ptvianc
Hello: 1. Yes, it is necessary to reball a PBGA after removal from the board. Once the part has been removed, the quantity of solder on the balls is out of control. This condition will not only result in an unacceptable variation in solder quantity
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 20 12:49:05 EDT 2000 | Bob Willis
So far on all my trials on PIHR I have only used standard products as the paste is defined by the printing requirements for fine pitch etc. As most people will have seen you just get a heap more residues with this process and even more with lead free
Electronics Forum | Mon May 07 09:46:15 EDT 2001 | orbotech
3D imaging refers to the acquisition of images from multiple perspectives using, preferably, multiple sources of illumination, while 2D imaging refers to the acquisition of an image from one perspective. An AOI system with 3D imaging is able to acq