Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 03 02:07:22 EST 2006 | revive
Hello everyone. I have around 1200 ICs that needs reballing. I don't plan to tackle these ICs myself. Therefore, anyone know of any companies that have a good/quick/cheap reballing service? And can anyone give me a ballpark figure on the service
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 14 23:31:51 EDT 2006 | Pasofol
Have done some rework on BGAs but what kind of minimal pitches/solder balls you dealing with and what kind of volume of rework you planning to do on it? You can get a fancy one which is almost fully automated with alignment so on, others you need t
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 21 13:25:44 EDT 2006 | Chunks
Nathan, look into a 7 or 8 zone oven. Depending on your baord size, a 5 zone may get you by. If you do plan to get larger work orders, go big on your oven now. It will pay off in the long run. Plus your window for profiling will be easier.
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 29 04:34:22 EDT 2006 | Rob
Just because someone has great equipment doesn't mean they are any good at assembling quality boards. By all means check out their current capacity & contingency plans, but also assess their competance levels & output quality. Set a cunning trap fo
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 20 23:44:41 EDT 2006 | reypal
Thanks Darby for your comment and absolutely agree with you. What we are trying to define here is a KPI for throw out. but before that, we need to get a guideline or standard as reference. in this case, if no any industry standard then we can use cur
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 27 08:48:18 EDT 2006 | Chunks
I think several of us have predicted this. Once the boys at RoHS get things rolling they have nothing to do. So, why not look into bigger and better things? I like their fancy buzz name too "REACH". I guess it's an oxymoron. Didja know large amo
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 14 11:50:40 EDT 2006 | dougs
I'd say you build as they ask but you must have written confirmation of what they wish you to do. One thing to remember is that it's not illegal to make non rohs compliant products, it's only illegal to sell them in certain markets, your not to know
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 18 14:22:59 EST 2006 | samir
Hi Real Chunks! Hope to see you in LA February. You planning to attend that Bismuth seminar? :-) Anywho...so true. Some Design Engrs. who've never done any real work in their lives think that we can make printed circuit board assemblies using co
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 02 16:26:32 EDT 2008 | jlawson
Valors new vPlan (Vplan Studio) Documentation System is fairly powerful and can read all major CAD/CAM formats and of course ODB++ which all major EDA software providers now support ODB++ output. Documentation can have picture files, AVI,s manual pla
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 26 01:14:42 EDT 2007 | JJ
Hi all, We plan to buy solder paste height measurement machine. However, not sure which is the better one..2D or 3D? As far as I know,3D is quite slow and but more accurate in term of measurement result. Pls share with me if anyone who has this e
