Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 03 08:55:37 EDT 2008 | andrzej
Hi, I might say I have some experience (1 year) in wave soldering. Yes I have set all parameters to run PCBs through wave solder. Yes, I have run new products on wave solder and had to find solutions for problems encountered. I understand relationsh
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 14 10:35:36 EDT 2008 | ck_the_flip
Grayman, I am of non-caucasian descent myself (an immigrant), and you are WAY off base on how the corporate structure here in America works. As others state, Engineers CHOOSE to stay Engineers and GOOD Engineers have no aspirations for upper manage
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 14 16:29:57 EDT 2008 | patrickbruneel
Stephen, Correct when focusing just on contact length and time only contact time should change when changing the conveyer speed (when the machine is in good operating condition). Changing the conveyer speed changes a lot more parameters like: *Flu
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 15 01:02:37 EDT 2008 | grayman
Hi Ck, Good engineers would dream of and want to have big salaries, car plan and others and I believed only technical managers or managers would get. Though, I have not yet visited USA but I know you have the same business system as ours. We, Filipin
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 15 11:00:52 EDT 2008 | grayman
AMC, I believed that a promotion is an incentives and a privilege from the company. How do you recognize your people? I have also worked with an American company and they provide promotions to well deserving employee. Yes, you are correct, my pay wa
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 15 13:21:18 EDT 2008 | amcross
Gray, For SOME employees, it is a promotion and a potential career paths. in MANY cases, people truly ARE born (or raised) leaders and while they are not briliant engineers, they are GREAT at helping brilliant engineers do their best work and work wi
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 09 16:00:04 EDT 2008 | grics
Obviously you wouldnt perform the most difficult rework tasks till last... Sorry. I should have clarified. We rack our units to keep good units flowing and fall out are held for rework. The line never stops. Inspection is inline and it is the deci
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 18 14:36:17 EDT 2008 | proy
I have a QFN which we are adding after process. (it was not available the day we ran the 4 prototypes.) We have removed most of the solder on all the pads, My plan was that a LITTLE solder on the center pad would wet and center the device (using a g
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 22 20:47:21 EDT 2008 | davef
Q1. Can I do this myself on site? A1. Sure. Most companies demoisturate their components in-house. Q2. Can we use our Vitronics Soltec XPM820 Reflow Oven? A2. You can. Most of us would be using an oven like that in our product processing. If you look
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 23 03:04:57 EDT 2008 | gfro
Hello, We are using a PCB with thickness 3.2mm 4 layer and lot of through hole via's of diameter 0.4mm. We specified our PCB vendor to do plugging. Now we have big problems, that after 1..4 weeks we measure a low resistance between track's/via's of
