Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 04 14:20:48 EST 1999 | Greg Valdman
| For as much as you can minimize bridging in these condition by changing board orientation, the only way to eliminate them may be to add debridging airknife tech to your system, or purchase a system that is fitted with this technology. We have been
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 19 10:33:16 EST 1999 | Michael Nguyen
I need some help to see if anyone knows of a vendor that makes a permanent marker that is in the Houston area that can write on a PCB the size of a grain of rice using white permanent ink...That's the amount of space we have to write our serial numbe
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 23 09:09:34 EST 1999 | Steve Schrader
| What to look for that causes tombstoning and the corective action. | Check your land-patterns. If they do not meet IPC standards, change your CAD libraries to IPC (or some other industry accepted standards such as SMTPLUS). If you have "home-gr
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 18 21:51:48 EST 1999 | Dave F
| What are some suggested standards/speced requirements and procedures for removal/addition of missing balls on laminate and ceramic based bga packages and quality requirements for same. | 3: I'm unaware of such documentation, but then again documen
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 23 16:55:43 EST 1999 | Joe Zuchowski
| who do you like to go to as a source of | caps, resistors, ICs, DIPs, connectors | | I'm looking for distributors. | | For I.C.'s I have had good luck with Future/FAI, Arrow, Western Resources, and Vista Mfg. Co. in K.C., Classic, Insight Cap
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 03 21:46:33 EST 1999 | Larry Mara
Steve, We are in the same boat--small and limeted on fund.We have a TF200 that pace is letting us demo, seems like good tool that we can add to as we need to.We are going to buy one.Great
Electronics Forum | Sun Jan 31 01:20:22 EST 1999 | M. Faisal
| Can anyone suggest a good 2D bar-code traceability software package? | Dear Charles: Panasonic Factory Automation has a wide range of CIM Software products that offer various tracability functions like component-panel tracability. I will be glad
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 20 12:04:44 EST 1999 | DDC
Need to know from your experience a set of smt equipment for low volume manufacturing (approx. 800K parts/yr). Types to handle are standards i.e., 0404-7343, soic's, plcc's, pqfp, tsop, soj, BGA, chip res. smt conn. I would like to know a recommende
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 14 22:52:28 EST 1999 | Wayne
I am experiencing a problem with a surface mount coax connector that over time pulls loose from the PWB. The connector has 4 small gold plated leads and we are soldering it to a flash gold board. A cable plugs into the connector and puts some const
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 13 19:13:59 EST 1999 | Michael Allen
Just a comment: we've seen PBGAs curl up at the corners, but only on prototype components that came off of a low-volume "prototype" line at our component supplier's lab (non-production overmold material was used). Production parts have not exhibite
