Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 04 12:53:15 EDT 2006 | pemea1
Is there a cost analysis? How can a small business (4 employees) compare small lot sizes with companies who have auto insert. machines?
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 04 13:33:15 EDT 2006 | Chunks
Hi Phil, It all depends on your product. You say small lot sizes, but are your board 20 by 20 inches in size with 5K parts both top and bottom? If so then even building 3 of these could take you days to build. Then take you weeks to trouble shoot
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 07 04:06:36 EDT 2006 | Rob
Also company B may have far higher overheads to support - sales guys, directors, accountants etc. They may also be set up for longer runs so as Ms Chunks previously mentions, the set up & teardowns would also incur the opportunity cost of not being
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 04 13:47:20 EDT 2006 | pemea1
apples to apples. 20 boards 80 parts top and 10 parts bottom. these boards are done on a semi regular basis (you know the boards are coming to you from an OEM at least three times a month, just no exact schedule). All that is required is pasting..mo
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 04 15:46:08 EDT 2006 | Chunks
Two reasons company B is asking $40 instead of $15-$20; 1. The set-up of their placement equipment takes time, thus the extra labor. Parts may be hard to get or what they norm keep in stock, plus storage of parts. 2. They know they can get awa
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 09 14:31:38 EST 2004 | Brent
There is standard pick and place equipment such as the Assembl�on (formerly Philips EMT) ACM Micro and AQ-1 that can easily handle your snap-fit through-hole BNC connectors, in addition to other surface mount components and through-hole odd form part
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 31 10:54:32 EST 2020 | rvines1
One concern with DIP insertion is making sure the operator inserts the correct tube into the correct feeder. Has anyone ever tried pick-to-light or anything similar?
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 23 18:34:15 EST 2020 | slthomas
It's hard to poka-yoke loading reels onto the machine (either a inserter-sequencer or a sequencer, then getting the sequenced reels properly indexed). The only way I know of to make sure they've been set up properly is with visual inspection of EVERY
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 24 06:45:19 EST 2020 | alpha1
Depending on your equipment. If you are running stand alone equipment. Separate Sequencer and Axial Inserter there's not much you can due expect check the process. The axial should still catch at least most of the defects. If you have a combination u
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 23 17:24:08 EST 2020 | rvines1
Due to couple of customers who still have some products that are completely through-hole, we use our Universal DIP and Axial equipment on a somewhat regular basis. Our machines are pretty old, but they work pretty well, and we don't do enough throug
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