Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 22 15:56:34 EST 2013 | davef
I don't know, what you have, but I just got back from the IPC APEX show and I'll make several points: * One take away about 'nano ...' is that it means different things to different people. For instance, in stencil printing: ** DEK uses Aculon and it
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 03 04:08:20 EDT 2013 | ericrr
Yes well, now we used to add a bit of flux to our leaded paste to make it slightly runny, But when we went to unleaded paste the joker who came in from another company to set the temperature on the oven said "you dont add anything to unleaded paste!.
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 03 19:03:31 EDT 2013 | hegemon
In agreement, in that you should have already printed enough paste on the board to accomodate the joint. Adding paste would give the result you described. (too much solder) Adding a little flux (only) and heat would be the correct path out of that s
Electronics Forum | Sat Jul 27 17:21:19 EDT 2013 | ericrr
A mistake happened at our company before I got there where a wrong value was used, so now we have to check it with someone else to make sure the old empty reel is the same value as the new full reel. Some months after I started, I decided to check t
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 08 15:47:07 EDT 2013 | joeherz
Shawn, Wow. This is a tough one. The part is a 1 pc where I'm used to seeing a 2pc. In our case, we have several assemblies using a 2 pc system (see Laird BMI-S-207-C and BMI-S-207-F). The "C" and the "F" stand for Cover and Fence. The Fence is
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 06 14:29:14 EDT 2015 | cadco
Update 6 Oct 15: We have completely re-configured the oven PID boards such that everything is now visible on the oven by the s/w and all is now OK since the "Machine"card is now recognized. We have just one additional procedure to do and that is to
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 19 07:56:52 EDT 2017 | mbass
Hi All, Looking for opinions from people on having conveyers between machines on a SM line. Im of the opinion that stand alone conveyers should be kept to a minimum. As an example of a SM line I have a Printer, SPI, 3 P&P machines, AOI, and a reflow
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 28 06:16:06 EST 2018 | mnyut
You need to look at what other smaller companies > are using, the KY machines usually go in > multiples into large installations. That's absolutely right, that the machines work excellently if they are only used for testing. But this also applies mo
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 20 03:55:38 EDT 2018 | rob
MTC = Multi tray changer. It's a stand alone unit that feeds in trays of components - it means you don't sacrifice feeder locations to waffle packs. Different companies call them different things. A 760 is dog slow, and spares are getting harder to
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 18 14:48:15 EST 2018 | davef
NEED ADVICE: What do we want * "Hi anyone have recommended pcb manufacturer?" [https://smtnet.com/Forums/index.cfm?fuseaction=view_thread&CFApp=1&Thread_ID=18483&mc=44] * "SMT manufacturers" [https://smtnet.com/Forums/index.cfm?fuseaction=view_thre