Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 05 15:14:27 EST 2001 | Mark Krmpotich
Currently where I work, we are busy running trials with smaller component sizes. Consumer Electronics is being driven to smaller and smaller products. Just look at the short history of the cell phone. Remeber when they used to look like Army Walki
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 08 17:46:38 EST 2001 | Mark Krmpotich
Panasonics are good machines as long as you do the proper and timely PM's they recommend. Plus with my past history and from others that I here, their feeders are some of their biggest down fall. That's typically why they have to introduce new style
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 02 23:39:01 EST 2001 | Stevo
John, I'm no helicopter guru but maybe someone in these links can help. Good luck-Stevo Mario of MIA Micro-Flight fame has put a very nice diagram of how to hook-up seperate components in a Piccolo board fashion on his website. If you are thinking o
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 14 19:32:05 EST 2000 | Dave F
Wow, someone read the fine SMTnet Archives!!!! Scary, get their name!!! [OK, I�ll stop ... Several points are: * Most of the stuff in the fine SMTnet Archives is all the bad things that we can make-up to respond to the questions people ask. Ther
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 15 13:57:46 EST 2000 | genny
It is only after the reflow heating process that the peaks may show up, as the solder build up in some vias(due to HASL'ing) might drip down during reflow. I don't think I've ever heard of it being desirable to have a bare copper surface that will ox
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 13 19:40:38 EST 2000 | Jerry Wetzel, SME, EM/SME
Your profile must be precise, your stencil aperture sizes and shapes are very important, and the size of the pads on the boards should be very close to what the part manufacturer recommends. We had some trouble with hi-temp paste, and discovered tha
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 13 08:56:49 EST 2000 | CAL
One other piece would be to map of the hot spots in the US market. California, NE, SE, Chicago and Texas are hot spots for Electronics manufacuring. Target companies in these areas and hit them with resumes. Some areas are starved for manufacturing e
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 08 11:08:03 EST 2000 | Antonio
Ok fellas, tell me how you'd fix this! I'm having melf connectors that are tombstoning in the wave, NOT the reflow, the wave. I've never seen this before. All other parameters are the same...solder, preheats, placements, the board, building humidi
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 04 11:14:03 EST 2000 | JimH
All, For what it's worth the only time I have experienced this phenom was when board support pins were misplaced on our chip shooter and these components (previously placed) were resting on the pins and cracking when we populated the other side o
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 29 21:05:33 EST 2000 | Michael Parker
Chris- you did not mention some details regarding your processes and volumes. Are you using SMT, PTH, mixed? Machinery involved (automatic vs. manual). Volumes - same 4-20 assemblies, at what periodic rate? Are you doing R&D prototypes only? High or