Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 07 15:55:37 EDT 1998 | Michael Allen
| I'm also in the "Don't score it" camp. Routed breakaways are much better. If your wave solder process has decent control on the wave height, you shouldn't worry about flooding the boards. | The fine pitch consideration for panelizing - Since you
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 20 09:12:28 EDT 2001 | jschake
If you were successful in running the machine in dry cycle mode, then I would expect with new squeegees that the prints would be acceptable. To give you more tangible data on what you may expect from the actual print results, maybe you could run the
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 14 13:58:07 EST 2001 | slthomas
This is one I haven't seen before (not in this context, anyway). We have an assembly that we have the SMT done out of house on, because of the high volumes. The boards have two distinct characteristics with respect to the appearance of the solder jo
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 21 01:21:14 EST 2002 | jbutile
Is everyone happy with his or her Panasonic, Fuji and Siemens machines? Do you realize what you have done? I just wanted to thank everyone who bought an Omni A,B,C machine from Universal Instruments... At least you gave the Americans a chance. It
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 18 09:20:58 EDT 2002 | huey
Having been the G.M. of Universal's remanufacturing division for 10 years I am familiar with the "Third Party Support Policy" as I was the primary author of it. The primary reason the policy was developed was to make it more difficult for other rese
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 02 12:07:50 EDT 2002 | johnw
Richard, your asking a multi million dollar question that in my own opinion no one can give you the right answer since no one really knows. hence I think the lack of answers to your question....thought there would be more people willing to propose a
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 19 16:58:04 EDT 2002 | dragonslayr
You definitely need to have live demos of each system, using your specific assembly if you want to compare apples to apples. Each of the AOI OEM's you mentioned have plus amd minus to their unique systems. You will need to evaluate your specific nee
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 04 07:23:15 EST 2003 | msivigny
Hello ricardof, To implement Cpk studies on SMT production equipment, you will require highly accurate glass plates, glass component slugs, accurately manufactured stencils and a measurement system to perform X, Y and Theta positional deviations from
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 14 17:21:12 EDT 2003 | davef
We reimburse production people for the co-pay on their health insurance when they include screening for lead in their blood test. Personnel Department has always been opposed to this on the grounds that it�s unfair since front office people don�t re
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 12 19:22:54 EDT 2004 | russ
So if I get this right, your customer wants you to run this product as pb free even though it is not. In order to run this as pb free you need to run pb free paste. If you use 63/37 paste at the higher temps I believe that in addition to the compon