Electronics Forum | Fri May 31 16:26:22 EDT 2002 | Feederman
Steve, you might want to check out the pre-printed and print-on-demand label feeders that are available through Hover-Davis. These types of feeder remove the potential human placement errors which sometimes occur. The feeders are available for most p
Electronics Forum | Thu May 23 14:35:40 EDT 2002 | pjc
There are instruments from ECD, KIC and Datapaq that are used in addition to classic profiling for oven thermal management and they also have some very efficient prediction software for profiling. I am not an advocate of common profiles. Most boards
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 04 18:14:52 EDT 2002 | arzu
I have the same problem. I made 3 standard profiles on a 6-zone oven, but always advice to make (or at least verify) a profile. But if customers don't want to, I point at the risks, and choose a slightly higher profile to be on the safe side. If you
Electronics Forum | Fri May 31 13:20:11 EDT 2002 | Mark J
They're not dead, but most are assuredly in a coma. As stated elsewhere in this thread, there is so much used equipment on the market due to many electronics companies divesting their manufacturing, and outsourcing production of their products. All t
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 03 19:43:57 EDT 2002 | peterson
Anyone who thinks that China is behind in the technology curve...hasn't been there recently. They learn fast, they can replicate (reverse engineer) like no other. It won't be years before they are at the same level as US OEM or EMS...it will be a lo
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 03 21:48:09 EDT 2002 | fastek
I judge a country's technology level by what they buy and what China is buying are not MSR's and CP-7's. It's MV2's, MV2C's, CP-4's with an MV2F here and there. If that's not behind the curve, I don't know what is. I would say they are 5 years behind
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 04 18:07:26 EDT 2002 | peterson
Well-said, lad. I strongly concur. It is not too late for US OEM and EMS companies. We have to retool and rethink the way we do business. If we do, we can still succeed, though I doubt we will ever see the numbers that we saw during the 1997-2000 boo
Electronics Forum | Mon May 27 12:55:28 EDT 2002 | jgeissler
We are experiencing an increased amount of machine stoppage due to brittle 8mm cover tape. The issue does not appear to be feeder or part/manufacturer specific. Taking a foot of cover tape and pulling it from the ends results the cover tape snappin
Electronics Forum | Mon May 27 15:12:43 EDT 2002 | grantb
Hi Yes we run into this fairly often, but rarely with 8mm, mostly 12 and 16mm and the tape usually splits rather than completely breaking.I would also be interested in hearing about others problems and if there is a specification dealing with this so
Electronics Forum | Tue May 28 17:02:46 EDT 2002 | dougt
I've had problems with this in the past, pretty sure it was due to age. Had a couple of old reels of dummy parts that would not allow for any type of stretching of the cover tape. I have also seen where the cover tape appears to shrink and it pulls
