Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 09 17:53:28 EDT 2003 | MA/NY DDave
Hi My guess is you're from China area, Four Tigers, or Korea. I think you are limiting yourself by only asking for end users opinions, yet that is my long term disagreeably educated opinion. I am going to one of these AOI things this week and mayb
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 12 11:34:15 EDT 2003 | caldon
Amen Jason- I have been fortunate and worked on both the Customer and OEM side. Regardless of who, what, why, when for the machines A customer is a customer is a customer and all should be treated on an equal level (unless that customer becomes a li
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 12 14:34:50 EDT 2003 | Steve
Varied opinions on this thread spread faster than wild-fire. First, I must say that analogies to auto dealers are a bit flawed. Business to Consumer is one thing. Business to Business is a completely different ballgame . . . no sense of comparing t
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 21 08:34:44 EDT 2003 | Don Bell
Blow holes/ pin holes in solder joints are the result of multiple root causes. Suggested analysis might look like this; 1) What method of solder preservation is used on the bare board. (hasl,enig, osp, etc.) HASL can leave unwanted flux residues,
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 21 20:42:12 EDT 2003 | iman
Don, thanks for the thoughtful insight, can I run some thinking points for your further assistance? 1) ours is a Au over Ni PCB bareboard. Do you think excessive Au thickness is any way a influence for poor solder formation? I did notice the PCB ba
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 08 18:00:34 EDT 2003 | kenBliss
Hi Bman At the risk of coming off as a �sales type�, you appear to be looking for a solution provider and probably opinions on your ideas. Regarding your method mentioned, This is not the most efficient way to run a stockroom but will work and will
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 14 09:35:47 EDT 2003 | patrickbruneel
Hi All, I enjoyed this discussion and applaud the quote from Stephen �following the followers�. I�m President/Technical Advisor in a flux and solder Mfg. Company and have so far resisted marketing lead-free and VOC free products, because at this poi
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 21 21:05:39 EDT 2003 | Tom B
Dan, We, do alot of double reflow. Your right we typically see alot of the standards components, SOT's, SOIC's, Chip stuff. The largest we do with out adding epoxy is some 32pin PLCC's. We have several assemblies were were doing PLCC44's, Sockets
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 21 22:10:07 EDT 2003 | adlsmt
Well, for some reason the board house will pay for the boards but has some issue with paying for the parts on them. Why am I not supprised? Perhaps I have mis-diagnosed the problem. We have found two different board p/n's with the same type of defec
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 12 00:19:37 EDT 2003 | Dean
In my humble opinion: 1. Use of computers and software to support cad programming and industrial automation. 15 years ago I was making programs with a pair of calipers and a swing arm digitizer. Now in a few hours an entire line (2 P&P machines,