Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 28 09:24:13 EDT 2006 | jax
1. What part of the time is spent Creating Visual Aids? Unless you are digitizing the gerber files for everything, why would you have to modify/re-label the referance designator info? (Part#-Ref.ID is color coded) If you are digitizing th
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 18 11:20:08 EDT 2008 | pjc
Stencil apertures are cut to deposit solderpaste onto the annular ring, provided its wide enough. Then you can place a solder preform if needed to ensure there is enough solder to fill the barrel. Here is some information on solder preforms: http://
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 13 08:17:13 EDT 2013 | gregp
Hello Action_101, We are pretty much on the same wavelength as far as moving the cut and clinch and leaving the board stationary. It is the first I have heard about the cut and clinch being difficult to work on but you worked on them so your opinio
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 19 23:04:32 EST 2014 | gregp
Hi Adam...thanks for your follow up comments. The auto inserter in the video is a machine from a time gone by...But quite impressive. Those machines are good for higher volume where high flexibility may not be required. not sure if all of the comp
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 20 16:51:48 EST 2014 | joe98375
gregp: Our PTH process has not changed in many years. Our products are fairly simple as far as electronics goes and everything gets potted anyways. ~90% of everything we build is single sided TH with ~ 100 solder joints per board. Each board is ~
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 23 10:14:31 EDT 2020 | robl
The odd form assemblers are extremely slow compared to the Axial & Radial UIC machines. Also there is a big cost for feeders. Key question is what is the max axial & Max radial feeder count on your biggest job and that will quickly tell you how man
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 24 07:57:26 EST 2007 | Mark
Like everyone has said make sure you request Cad files from your sales people first. Than if sales allows (which I'm sure they will) is call the customer and go through with them step by step how to extract the cad file that you need. If you refer to
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 19 18:51:22 EST 2014 | warwolf
your summary is pretty accurate! yeah our justification on the automatic system is long in the pipeline. we would need significant volume even then we could just bump the staff numbers. I can see how you are having troubles with the legacy requirem
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 21 05:40:49 EST 2014 | spoiltforchoice
I meant more from the programming perspective, make sure you make the most of what you can do with modern computing interfaces. Making configuring/creating jobs etc as accessible as possible to as wide an audience possible. As an example look at how
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 21 11:40:53 EST 2014 | gregp
Hi Spoilt, Thanks again for the feedback. It is really an eye opener for me. What I fail to realize is that perception, whether right or wrong, plays a big role in whether or not someone might consider a process change. Your first comment is reall
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