Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 11 12:27:48 EDT 1999 | Mike Demos
Thank you all for your replies. I guess my age in this industry is showing. This military spec. does not appear to be in existance. So, let me make my request a little more to the point: Is anyone aware of a specification specifically referencing
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 07 06:16:18 EDT 1999 | Ken Fong
Hi, We are using mixed technology in our PCBA. Would like to know whether there is any criteria governing/guiding the use of mixed technology in such aspects as: 1. Some SMDs cannot be used in some kind of PCB materials such as FR1? 2. Some SMDs are
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 07 15:12:19 EDT 1999 | Scott S. Snider
| I am interested in seeing how some of you calculate machine utilisation. Currently this was calculated off against the uptime. I really believe there is a better way of doing it i.e if I were to calculate this against machine's capacities. Any feed
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 07 04:29:40 EDT 1999 | Dylan T. Kenny
Hi all. I have some experiance in regular electronics, but the hardest part for me was always the soldering, so I am very intrested in SMT. So what would be the best way to get started in SMT? I would prefer not to have to spend alot of money, but
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 06 21:45:20 EDT 1999 | John
I recently had the opportunity to visit the vendor who is making my boards. On my trip I noticed that the guy who was in charge of the SMD placement machine (brand new Samsung) still had to manuallly place about 20%-40% of the parts after placement b
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 07 15:15:31 EDT 1999 | Charles Morris
| | Our first article inspection after machine placement can take several hours depending on the complexity of the board. The operator visually checks the board against the drawing and bill of material. I'd be interested to hear if there are any othe
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 06 10:31:05 EDT 1999 | Chris May
Hopefully, everybody suffers from solderability of SOT-23 devices and I would like to know how everybody else resolves this problem. Historically, here, we have always gone for 6 thou stencils. I found that going to an 8 thou stencil improved the sit
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 06 09:40:49 EDT 1999 | Mark Quealy
I have an adhesive dispenser in my workcenter but I rarely use it. I've replaced this process with wavesolder pallets for bottom side PTH soldering, ocassionally gluing parts left exposed by the pallet. So I was thinking of selling the dispensing equ
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 06 20:42:50 EDT 1999 | Mike Cooper
Yes. We use high speed dispensing (PanasonicFA)as an integral part of our PCB assembly. Our business is automotive electronics and our typical product is 2-sided smd with some through hole. We assemble topside first, through hole, then bottomside. Th
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 05 16:42:57 EDT 1999 | Dave Pearcy
I would like comments on how the industry handles 0402 parts, regarding identification. Since the parts are too small to be labeled, how can we accurately identify the parts and or values, either before or after assembly? When the boards go to test,
