Electronics Forum | Wed May 22 21:01:49 EDT 2002 | davef
Ah, the customer is always correct, again. And you are officially �painted into a corner�. Actually, your customer is not correct. Thinking that money is going to be saved by specifying copper component terminations [or whatever in the world they
Electronics Forum | Wed May 22 08:43:40 EDT 2002 | pjc
I have experience cleaning NC for military boards. The reason for cleaning the NC is due to conformal coating requirements. Zestron Vigon A200 and Atron AC 100, as well as Petroferm Hydrex DX have both been effective at cleaning Alpha UP78 NC paste.
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 10 01:08:21 EDT 2002 | Ken Bliss
In response to the original question, �Does anyone know what the industry standards are for machine utilization on a SMT line or across a shop floor?� Ceeris International published a report showing an industry average of 52% utilization of staffed
Electronics Forum | Wed May 22 13:40:24 EDT 2002 | Hussman69
Boy, I step out for a bit and everybody picks on me (just joking). I believe I may have been off base a bit. Checking every bit of your stencil design is very good - I do that too. I calculate LXWXH and reduce or over print where needed, depending
Electronics Forum | Wed May 22 16:36:13 EDT 2002 | slthomas
What methods do you guys use for maintaining lot and/or board traceability? When I worked in med. products, we used travelers that we recorded everything on, then serialized them at the end of the build. Not as effective as up front serialization,
Electronics Forum | Thu May 23 12:27:53 EDT 2002 | johnw
yngwie, are you getting a wave from the customer to say it's not your fault you fried the parts? Profiling's one of those things that is a pain to dobut it's one of the most important factors in the assembly processes. I've read and seen instances w
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 04 04:43:50 EDT 2002 | ianchan
Hi mate, Been working in asia for past 6 years and this calls for alot of contact with asian based CM and customer groups. experience has shown the chinese group have strong "reverse engineering" talents and are liken to the early japanese "invento
Electronics Forum | Wed May 29 08:28:41 EDT 2002 | zanolli
Hello Mr. Peterson, I don't know where you're writing from, but if you're more than 25 miles from Rhode Island, I'll humbly and graciously accept the "expert" title. In general, I have to say that the backpanel removal tools are worth the money. As
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 10 01:25:25 EDT 2002 | Ken Bliss
By centralizing to your stockroom all your feeder setups so that one team is assigned to just that, to keep all your 7 lines up and running will reduce the amount of personnel you need and increase throughput. Keep in mind a key factor. The bottlen
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 11 14:45:59 EDT 2002 | stefwitt
I can not find a F4G in Fuji�s equipment list. Siemens has a F4 ( flexible fine pitch machine ) and also a GII ( glue dispensing machine ), which both would make sense to add to your equipment list. Machines are �connected� together with their conve