Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 28 20:14:50 EST 2001 | ianchan
Hi, i'd second that choice of enineering degree in electronics as monkey says, coz of variable options open to you IF you decide to rotate in your field of applicable enggr interests... IT courses are abundant in today's "open Uni" learning "econom
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 09 16:25:28 EDT 2002 | clarkk
Alan, You're right, mass inspection after assembly won't work. The inspectors will miss 25% (or more) of the defects, and the boards will be reworked before SMT operators can properly define defects and their sources. The company I work for tends to
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 19 09:29:05 EDT 2002 | stefwitt
Capital Investment International consolidates the many owners of Dover, which may make business a bit more difficult compared to most of the competitors, who don�t have to spend a large percentage from profits to their owners. The poor business decis
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 17 13:57:39 EDT 2002 | stefwitt
There is no excuse for bad telephone etiquette. The service tech. will take all the blame and consequences although other people in the company should take the blame as well. The service technicians are usually among the lowest ranking employees in
Electronics Forum | Tue May 07 15:24:13 EDT 2002 | gregp
I believe Mitutoyo makes a CMM for that application. They were soliciting the idea at APEX show a couple of years ago. I believe they were going to develop some software to do just what you are asking for (following the IPC-9850 format). A CMM, ho
Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 08 01:31:19 EDT 2002 | fastek
It should be easy enough for you to do your own study to determine if you need more people or not. The first thing that I would do is optimize or balance your line to the optimum efficiency. That is not a difficult task. Once that is done, analyze yo
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 14 13:19:15 EDT 2002 | mjabure
The first question is, is this a high mix, low volume environment or vice versa? If it's the former then Kens solution is something you might want to look into. Depending on your feeder set up you might check to see if your operators have been traine
Electronics Forum | Sat Nov 02 03:13:30 EST 2002 | fdr4prez
Give me a break: If I buy a new machine from them they will make their sales commission off of me, and after the one year warranty they will charge (for example) $100.00 an hour to fix my machine. No problem there. If I buy a machine from the com
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 11 11:42:26 EST 2002 | MikeF
Like Mark, I'm guessing your problem is with SMT parts on the top side, the solder is re-melting and some of the parts are moving around during when the board is being wave soldered. When I had some training on thru hole wave soldering way back when
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 16 03:43:42 EST 2003 | johnw
1st off for the forum folk, I don't like the fact that the new system only let's you see the posting your replying too, I'd rather be able to see the thread..... Anyhoo, why this alloy?, it's because it's the device manufacturers preferred and the c
