Today, Mike Konrad talks about low-volume electronic assembly. We all know who the “big players” are when it comes to solder paste printers, pick-and-place machines, reflow ovens and other assembly equipment. But what choices does one have if they need to produce low volumes of electronic assemblies such as prototypes and other low-volume applications?
Let’s face it, most assemblers can’t justify a multi-million-dollar production line for low-volume production. One solution may be to outsource the production to a contract manufacturer but there are specific circumstances which may prevent that. In today’s episode, we’ll review some of the equipment options for low-volume SMT production and we’ll see if the barrier to entry for in-house assembly is lower than one might think. Mike's guest today is Ed Stone.
Ed is a sales manager at Manncorp, a provider of SMT assembly equipment for the EMS industry. Manncorp was founded 55 years ago back in 1967. Just imagine how much our industry has changed over the past 55 years!
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PCB Chat 87: Jorge Cardona on EMS in Colombia
RM 82: Paul Salerno on Soldering Materials and Selection
PCB Chat 86: Wally Rhines on the ECAD Market Data
RM 80: Cheryl Tulkoff and Greg Caswell on DfX
RM 79: Arch Systems‘ Dave Trail about Industry 4.0
PCB Chat 85: Matt Dyson on Electrically Conductive Adhesives
C2C 11: Poligage Founder and CEO Christine Davies
RM 77: James Kovacevic on Maintenance Reliability Training
RM 76 - Meet the Press
RM 75: Matric Group‘s Patrick Stimpert on Lean Manufacturing
C2C 10: Zestron‘s Dr. Harald Wack
PCB Chat 84: Gowtham Ramachandran on the ‘Desktop Microfactory‘
C2C 9: Foresite Founder Terry Munson
RM 74: Worthington Assembly's Chris Denney on Contract Manufacturing
RM 73: Solder Paste Expert Tim Jensen of Indium
PCB Chat 83: Vincent Bedat of Volthub on OEM-EMS Data Sharing
C2C 8: STI Electronics' David Raby
RM 72: Thermal Profiling with ECD's Mark Waterman
PCB Chat 82: The RIT CEMA Capstone Project Team
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