Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 13 10:40:38 EST 2011 | tony_d
Good Day Michelle, If you are looking for a solid AOI system that is simple to program and extremely accurate my recommendation is MIRTEC by far. We checked out several machines and narrowed the selection down to two, YESTech and MIRTEC. We had an
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 10 18:18:45 EST 2011 | Anthony
I'm in the market for a low volume oven and so far I'm pretty disheartened with the availability of low volume ovens at a good price. It seems like the only high quality and reliable ovens are $3500+, which is basically out of my price range. I've
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 09 17:02:43 EST 2011 | Tekmart International Inc
Hello, You may find the attached SMT equipment industry link very helpful in your search as it provides a comprehensive summary list of all major (and lesser known) placement machine models released on the market over the past ~7 years or so sorted
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 15 11:14:13 EDT 2011 | smtmax
Hi. I've been looking for SMT machines and have > a budget close to 100k total on a stencil > printer, p&p + feeders and reflow owen. Witch > machines would you choose with this budget? Have > any one of you heard of evest? _a class=roll > href
Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 04 12:11:49 EDT 2011 | davef
Q1) How to identify on good or bad RF shield that could contribute to dewetting? A1) We use Alloy 770 and 752 [German silver] for our RF shields. We have never seen a solderability issue, even aged stock solders well. * Nickel Alloy 752, Nickel Silv
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 20 11:39:43 EDT 2011 | swag
Make sure the housing for the switch can move up and down freely (no lose parts/screws and the lead screw is clean and lubed with some light oil). I've had a tactile housing come loose from the lead screw = limit errors - it should be tight with no
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 19 20:01:30 EDT 2012 | eadthem
some things to consider, Is there flux on the board. are there finger prints on the tops of parts. Is the board warped at the V score from reflow Is the board shifting in the machine during inspection. These are the issues we have had with our mir
Electronics Forum | Tue May 22 07:55:05 EDT 2012 | rway
Although not listed in your post, I recommend YesTech. I have been using them since 2007. We have two M1 systems, and they have been good machines. We evaluated three: YesTech, Mirtec, and Christopher. Of the three, the YesTech system caught more
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 29 09:44:46 EDT 2012 | lloyd
I have been down this road several times in the past and have also found it very frustrating. This time I got our 6 sigma/lean guys involved and their solution was to implement a check sheet that the operators had to fill in at the start of their shi
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 07 12:14:18 EST 2012 | sarason
A few years back I got a splinter of steel in my eye which destroyed my super good eyesight. Which now means it is difficult for me to work in electronics. The pain of steel was difficult to explain but, a year earlier I had a nail shot into my finge