Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 12 15:29:51 EDT 2009 | grantp
Hi, We just had delivered one of these and it's incredible. It's an amazing machine, and watching it load such a large board totally accurately, from end to end is amazing. Apparently we took delivery of only the second machine to ship in the world
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 30 13:26:09 EST 2000 | stefano bolleri
Ramon, I have placed BGAs before with an IP-2. It can be done, but with limitations: IP-2 can only see shape of BGAs, not balls (back-light only). Is this OK for you? I only placed components with balls having 50mil pitch, and the centering with bod
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 17 07:53:31 EDT 2000 | Wolfgang Busko
Getting things "foolproof" is sometimes a hard effort and can cost a lot of money. Who is able to tell that it actually saves money instead of wasting it. Transfering responsibility from operators to a system may lead to a somewhat less responsible a
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 07 11:19:23 EST 2001 | CAL
Precision parts and precision boards are nice for the initial evaluation but are costly for routine monthly accuracy tests. I know for a fact all the Siemens machines leaving Germany are evaluated with precision parts and board and placements are eva
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 21 19:39:06 EST 2001 | davef
Thank you for the contributions you've made in this thread. May be setting people free to be involved in other areas is the answer. Situations that have me grinding my teeth are: * The head of Purchasing drop-ships a reel of resistors to a burn-in
Electronics Forum | Wed May 09 13:11:22 EDT 2001 | zam_bri
Hi.. Recently, I have received a few reels of 0402 with an old date code ( but still less than 2 years old).I don't have a capability in-house to carry out the solderability test except for the dipping test ( dip the components in the molten solder
Electronics Forum | Sun Jul 08 23:05:57 EDT 2001 | Darby
John, Tenryu/Amistar/i-Pulse made stainless replicas of feeder tape for various pitches and feeder widths. Part # for 0402 is "MT-0802" ( 8mm wide x 2mm pitch ). Standard 8mm wide tape is " MT-0804". If you can't get any of these, spend an hour on yo
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 22 11:16:04 EST 1999 | Boca
Chris, Some ramblings- Your choice depends on factors like which defects you're looking for, bugdet, quality inspection philosophy, high or low mix environment, sample sizes or 100%, and so on. Are you going to test 100% of the product coming off t
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 28 23:45:23 EDT 1999 | DGrenier
JC: Seen this before, many times. We fixed our problems at the co I work for by giving a packaging specification to our purchasing dept. Took some work but the payoff was pretty big. This document includes such things as orientation,pitch,tape type
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 22 22:21:31 EDT 1999 | JAX
| Hi All, | | We have 19 Siemens machine running here and lately I was assigned to come out with a proposal on the wrong part issue on Siemens Machines. All of our machines are equip with siemens part verification in which there the part barcode is
