Electronics Forum | Sat Jul 27 00:27:41 EDT 2002 | fastek
Cal- Your statement about Fuji owning the market in the 80's is not quite true. If you look at what was happening in those days...before CM's had any penetration, Panasonic was the big dog because they targeted the OEM's and crapped on the CM's. Mad
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 31 01:40:46 EDT 2002 | kenbliss
Cal and everyone else on this forum I completely agree. Everyone needs to keep in mind, not everything is going over to China. The press says it is, they also told us the stock market was great and then they said the stock market was bad. The medi
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 15 15:44:11 EDT 2002 | davef
For us, no. Pain in the butt, yes. Volume build shops do not have the inherent flexibility that quick turn shops have built into their systems to deal with these problems. I�d speculate that this issue will help LARGE contract shops to rethink the
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 16 17:03:31 EDT 2002 | stepheno
I worked for a CM in the GTA here in the GWN. Our buyers would give a techie a pile of "part substitutions" for him to sign off on. He would check out the requests and sign only a very small percentage. Some were radically different parts. I asked
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 31 17:37:46 EDT 2002 | davef
We are not very smart about this. We base our machine PM on manufacturer�s recommendations. In real life, those recommendations are fairly conservative for a new a machine and probably need to be tailored for a more mature machine. The buzzword
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 24 11:46:58 EDT 2002 | johnw
Claude, your not a manager by any chance are you?... you can't charge them for breaking them. Ok so yes there will be poor handling but if your going to fix the problem you have to look at teh route cause of it and fix that. You should be settign up
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 29 13:59:56 EDT 2002 | Garth
Their company isn't new although as I mentioned they have a new line of pick and place machines designed specifically for low to medium volume users. Their web site is http://www.apsgold.com When I attended the Apex show in San Diego last January I
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 02 12:01:40 EDT 2002 | johnw
interesting, not at all what we were told so yes lot's of contradictions comming from them, I have to say personally I've not beein impressed with there technical service of late, are they getting complacent I ask? it's strange they say it'll cause
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 05 15:26:09 EDT 2002 | John Patricelli
I've attended the Advanced Programming Course and the Maintenance Course at their Rowley, MA site. I also talked to the trainer, Toby Upham, about some of the other training courses they provide. It sounds like the New User Training course covers m
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 12 09:40:53 EDT 2002 | itempea
Hi Antonio, you had some wonderful input from the previous mailers. They covered much of the technicalities. What I would like to point out is that if the line has 2 chipshooters and they only use one for you, you still pay for the second one since
