Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 10 12:58:29 EST 2002 | John
I would like to start a Contract Manufacturing Business of PCB and Cable Assembling in North Carolina and will appreciate any valued input regarding the market study and business potential for a newly low budget startup. Here almost all big companies
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 11 00:12:57 EST 2002 | caldon
Pick a niche i.e. Fiber cable splice or BGA replacement service. There are tons on EMS providers and with very cut throat prices. I gaurentee you if you had a BGA rework station and an xray - and offered services in this area you will make a killing
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 14 20:05:48 EST 2002 | davef
Before you spending very much time [$$$$] on this project, consider: * This might be the wrong audience for your contractor market requirements questions. - Probably 50% of the posters on this forum are contractors. [And as Cal says, that number pro
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 14 21:21:43 EST 2002 | saiwong
I won't be easy. You have to consider most of the major manufactures are consider outsoucesing to China & Malaysia. They have cheap labor & lower tax. If you insist to invest you money to start up a contract manufacturing business. You will save a lo
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 11 11:14:14 EST 2002 | leedianeh
I am going to be using large numbers of silver immersion PCB's for assembly. I am concerned about long term storage ( shelf life )and handling prior to placement/assembly. The recommended 'shelf life' appears to be 6 months but obviously this will
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 14 19:22:54 EST 2002 | wsanita
The great thing about Mydata is the ability to put small strips of components on the Y-table. Takes only a few minutes to setup. I build mainly protos and small lots. The y axis is the table. The head is the x. Any problems you may have heard of were
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 16 15:23:11 EST 2002 | dougt
You sound like your set to go with MyData. If you still have some time look at what Contact Systems has. Their older machines were slower compared to what is out there but they are awesome prototype machines (write a quick program, run a couple of
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 16 15:13:24 EST 2002 | dougt
The Industry has just come out with some standard that includes a "test board" that will be used to compare one machine to another (we have been refering to it as an IPC board). The board has components spaced from a smaller to larger pattern and at
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 16 20:06:09 EST 2002 | davef
No, not as such. Consider: * Using the IPC calculator [free at http://www.ipc.org]. It allows you to consider / assess the amount of solder when designing pads. * Reviewing IPC-7525 - Stencil Design Guidelines. It gives general aperture guidelines.
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 16 14:46:41 EST 2002 | jdill
Is anybody out there using ScanPlace or any other type of Scanner cad package? Our current scanmount system went down and scancad no longer supports our scanner so we need to upgrade. I just want any kind of remarks from anyone about the scanplace s
