Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 10 18:54:12 EDT 2003 | fastek
Sorry guys. I'm not in agreement with your nightmarish vision of a Matrix based future. As a guy who has worked in the trenches since the 70's myself....I would say that anything that replaces humans in this business is a good thing. I've seen the ev
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 19 10:22:53 EDT 2003 | A J. Morin ...of A. R. T. (Automation Resources & Technologies)
I would like to say that if anyone is having problems getting technical support service for their equipment and have not registered their equipment and paid that fee,you may get service by contacting A J Morin (of ART) and we may be able to service y
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 13 12:28:11 EDT 2003 | Andrea
Up until this point, my company has been hand soldering all of our assemblies. We are a high reliability manufacturer and work to the IPC-610 Class three/ target. We just received a Reflow Solder Batch Oven. It is a small oven, a Gold-Flow GF-B. I ha
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 30 09:29:22 EST 2004 | caldon
Joe- You confused me In the subject it has SMT and in a posting you say Through hole components. I was incharge of getting equipment for a research and teaching facility called ACI (Some know it as the EMPF). I was tasked with getting equipment at n
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 09 10:32:49 EST 2005 | primus
Hello there! I am familiar with the Set Command Variables available on our older UIC through-hole machines, and am investigating the possibility of making these variables available to our operators. Over the past years, our operators have been train
Electronics Forum | Wed May 11 16:13:49 EDT 2005 | keegomaster
Rob, - with free software upgrades included, how about hardware upgrades!? no prob paying for those? - "good part editor" do you have one you specially love/hate? - Bar corde reader is already considered, we're thinking on adding a DataMatrix reade
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 09 05:04:05 EDT 2005 | Joseph
Dear Patrick, Unfortunately we do not know what exactly the failure as our customer refuse to reveal to us. From visual inspection the solder joints are smooth and shiny as per IPC-A-610 requirements. The component supplier (IR) commended that they
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 20 15:05:28 EDT 2005 | Fred M.
With the new rev D release of IPC-A_610 came a new section 10.2.9.3 which identifies a via (through hole) with nicks along the inside of the annular ring. Defect is all three classes and states "Damage to conductor or lands". We have for years defa
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 29 12:52:21 EDT 2005 | pr
We have 2 dual head Versa-flows in line. We use them mainly for doublesided reflow jobs that have connectors and axial parts. I have about 15 jobs currently running on them. The advantage of having 2, is some of our boards have through hole on 1 side
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 03 14:48:59 EST 2005 | Jason Miller
I've been tasked with identifying what world class quality should be for my company's products (custom military/avionics power suppliers & custom transformers/inductors/magnetics, see http://www.hirelsystems.com for more info). I can't get a shred o