Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 11 08:47:34 EDT 2005 | Rob
There's not many ways of doing it on the cheap except... Buy a second hand universal GSM1 with VME 630 vision, 0.5 mil per pixel camera & some expensive ceramic nozzles for the 0201's. This will be quite slow & the software quite awkward but lookin
Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 04 08:51:26 EDT 2005 | pjc
IPC-7525 is a document that provides guidlines for the design and fabrication of stencils for solder paste and surface-mount adhesive. This is the first time this important information has been collected and published in an industry consensus documen
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 21 02:54:10 EDT 2005 | Base
(... so hard to resist... Rob is probably going to kick my derriere for this post...) So was Assembleon... They first placed a very large QFP (think it was 208) and then placed a whole bunch of 01005's in between the leads. And to top it off they al
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 16 20:54:51 EDT 2006 | PV
Hi Ahmad, I am using SRT 1100 for about 4 years. I like it but I am looking for something better. What ERSA Model you are using? Is it IR/PL 650A? I do BGA Reworks almost everyday. The most difficult Reworks I have had so far are a very small u
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 16 20:55:13 EDT 2006 | PV
Hi Ahmad, I am using SRT 1100 for about 4 years. I like it but I am looking for something better. What ERSA Model you are using? Is it IR/PL 650A? I do BGA Reworks almost everyday. The most difficult Reworks I have had so far are a very small u
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 26 21:23:38 EDT 2005 | Jes�s Salinas
Hello , In our case we take the results from the repair station. Each test station has its own repair station so from there we count the process defects : placement and printing. The formula used to calculate PPM = DEFECTS / (PARTS PER BOARD x UNITS
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 30 10:46:27 EDT 2005 | lyrtech
Hi, I curently have an interesting challenge. But I don't have all the knowledge to solve it. One of our boards is used in RF applications. We noticed that the No-Clean flux residue makes interferences in the RF signal. Removing the flux residue so
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 03 12:11:18 EDT 2005 | PWH
Soon we will be manufacturing board assemblies on our SMT lines that will utilize both lead and lead free water soluable solder pastes. I have read some discussion about change-over from lead to lead-free jobs related to machine cleanliness, etc. H
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 12 12:35:14 EST 2006 | slthomas
Phil's a cool guy. I had a few email exchanges with him when I registered for his site a few years ago. I told him up front that my company at the time wasn't planning on spending any money for services and that I was only digging for information.
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 12 13:58:13 EST 2006 | sarar
I agree. Phil is a very respectable guy who knows what he's talking about, and his writings are well-done. I'm sure there are some consultants out there who are less than par, and the profession as a whole has a stigma of just rambling a bunch of m