Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 20 10:27:54 EDT 2007 | Machine Designer
I'm not a protectionist (yet), but I can surely know a trend in my industry when I see one. In the past 10 years we were looking to outsource precision machined goods to Asia. Although the quality wasn't there, the cost incentives made up for it ev
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 25 11:12:56 EDT 2008 | tedboimov
I was very impressed and educated reading this discussion about "good board manufacturers". I have worked in SMT equipment development in the past, but am new to the board manufacturing issues. Here is my analysis of the preceding discussion. There
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 26 18:23:47 EDT 2012 | frcdave
Hello Sergio, I can provide you expert perspective on the VT-RNS-PT from Omron as well as on the YESTech platforms. The VT-RNS-PT product is super complicated and difficult to understand from a programming and operation standpoint and really does no
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 30 15:28:25 EDT 2007 | gmoritz
I'm posting a diary of the major repair experience that we had this weekend. I'll follow up with a shorter post that sort of summarizes a few things. ------------------------------------------------ The service guys showed up at our facility about
Electronics Forum | Sat Jul 24 00:04:55 EDT 1999 | Scott McKee
| | | There is a practise within the industry of an Inspector inspecting a board, and that same Inspector performing touch-up. My opinion is that the Inspection and Touch-up operations should be separate functions whereby the Inspector is not perform
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 02 23:53:09 EDT 1999 | Dean
| To you all for comment and summary, | | The following things I like without endorsing (PCB/PCBA stuff - outside the great women in my life [many] and without [mostly]): | | 1) A good set of design rules | 2) A good set of design rules meeting pro
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 30 09:32:42 EDT 1999 | Steve Gregory
| | |Hi all | | This Debate on lead free soldering is really hotting up here in Europe. From 2004 the use of lead in components and assemblies will be banned here. Also flame retardent halogens will be banned(FR4 etc). While we all agree that we hav
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 16 09:12:46 EDT 1998 | Scott Cook
Sorry folks. I'm just a naysayer here. Let's look at this BGA thing...... We've all been successfully processing down to 16 mil FP stuff for years, now--some of us down to 11 mil. Once the printing process was stabilized, paste rheologies were matur
Electronics Forum | Sat Oct 17 10:43:29 EDT 1998 | smd
| Sorry folks. I'm just a naysayer here. Let's look at this BGA thing...... | | We've all been successfully processing down to 16 mil FP stuff for years, now--some of us down to 11 mil. Once the printing process was stabilized, paste rheologies were
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 19 12:27:09 EDT 2002 | jeffreybrown
I have read with interest this string of opinions about support of old machines. I am the service manager of Contact Systems and I deal with customer support every day. Our policy is to treat all owners of Contact machines in an evenhanded way. The w
