Electronics Forum | Sat Jan 11 17:06:27 EST 2020 | silverlead
I have worked with both Gridlock and conventional pin support mostly on DEK machines. Gridlock allows to reduce greatly changeover time in hi mix/low volume environment when switching sides on double sided boards. It also eliminates guesswork when ma
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 06 20:53:23 EST 2020 | mikeyg12
Hello everyone! I have had this idea in my head to DIY a desktop KVM (without the V so I guess just a KM) board that I can solder USB A headers to with a DPDT switch. I designed the board and when I thought it was all good to go I proudly sent it of
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 23 17:24:08 EST 2020 | rvines1
Due to couple of customers who still have some products that are completely through-hole, we use our Universal DIP and Axial equipment on a somewhat regular basis. Our machines are pretty old, but they work pretty well, and we don't do enough throug
Electronics Forum | Sat Feb 08 04:37:19 EST 2020 | spoiltforchoice
I work with small batches and this is what I do. However I don't do it because of the paste. Instead I do it because I am the sole operator on the line and I want one process finished so I can keep a better eye on the others. I specifically work with
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 26 13:31:37 EDT 2020 | rgduval
As everyone else said, if you don't have CAD, it's a pain to digitize the gerbers. So much so that we only did it once when I went to CircuitCam training. After you digitize the gerbers, you have to merge the BOM with it. And you have to tell it p
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 25 11:16:35 EDT 2020 | richardcargill
Currently working through a myriad of air leaks on an old MPM Ap -b and have a question that hopefully one of you fine people may know the answer to. The camera vx and vy use linear rail motors. As far as I can tell, there are nozzles between the sur
Electronics Forum | Fri May 15 11:59:05 EDT 2020 | stephendo
There are a couple of other countries that should be on your list to considered in at least some circumstances. Canada and The United States. I work for a CEM in Toronto, at the end of last year before all this, we had a largish job for a customer i
Electronics Forum | Fri May 08 20:13:35 EDT 2020 | gregoireg
This is a similar question to https://smtnet.com/Forums/index.cfm?Thread_ID=22578 but I didn't want to steal their thread. In the recent COVID-19 events, I guess that some US companies are going to think to relocate their PCBA work from Asia / China
Electronics Forum | Mon May 11 17:53:36 EDT 2020 | dwl
My advice for mexico is stay away from the border towns due to cartel violence. Cities like Monterrey, Guadalajara or Queretero are much safer and have large established electronics manufacturing bases. Most of the Major EMS providers have locations
Electronics Forum | Wed May 13 15:57:43 EDT 2020 | azdback
We have been working on an intermittent error on our hydra. And it seems to happen only after several hours of production have passed, it doesn't happen during the first part of the shift. Our hydra goes from working fine for several hrs to making
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