September 2012

ACI Technologies Featured Workshop: Stick With Quality Adhesive Technologies

From ACI Technologies

Stick With Quality Adhesive Technologies


Presented by Henkel, manufacturer of Loctite brand products

Learn the latest technologies available for designing and assembling components with adhesives at this free workshop. Gain an understanding of the various processes, including advantages and limitations; ascertain the essential considerations for choosing the best adhesive solution.

Experience hands-on adhesive demonstrations, see dispensing and curing equipment in action and participate in an informative question and answer session. Topics will include visible light cure, anaerobic, hot melt, two-part silicone, instant adhesive and structural adhesive technologies.

Bring your parts, prints and problems with you. Engineering and technical representatives will be available after the forum for one-on-one discussions and demonstrations. We'll study your specific application and suggest new and improved methods, solve your toughest assembly issues, or help you in any way we can without cost or obligation.

Industry finds solutions to its biggest challenges with quality Loctite products from Henkel. These products, services and applications can make your life easier and help improve your company's bottom line.

Date: Wednesday, October 10, 2012  
Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm with complimentary lunch
RSVP: Katie Riggan by phone at 610.362.1200, extension 250 or via email at registrar@aciusa.org Location: ACI Technologies, Inc.
1 International Plaza, Suite 600
Philadelphia, PA 19113
ACI is located adjacent to the Philadelphia airport with free parking. Visit ACI on the web at www.aciusa.org.

Manncorp CR-4000T Reflow Oven

Posted by Manncorp

Manncorp CR4000T Reflow Oven: two lower convection zones, stainless steel mesh conveyor accommodates PCBs up to 500 mm (20") wide, full-color touch-screen LCD display, just over 6 1/2 ft. long.



For more information, please visit the website: Manncorp CR4000T Reflow Oven

SMT Reflow Oven

Posted by Manncorp

A reflow oven is a machine used primarily for reflow soldering of surface mount electronic components to printed circuit boards (PCB). Manncorp multi-zone CR Series SMT reflow oven are available for both conventional and lead-free solders. They are designed and built to the highest standards while attaining excellent cost/performance ratio. Models shown include KIC's Auto Focus Power Software. (CR-4000T excluded.)



For more information, please visit the website: Manncorp reflow oven

Computer-Controlled Batch Reflow With Real-Time Profiling Mimcs Inline Reflow

Posted by Manncorp

BT300CP is a lead-free-capable batch reflow oven that takes up little more than 27
BT300CP is a lead-free-capable batch reflow oven that takes up little more than 27" x 22" of table space.
Electronics assemblers who need to produce prototypes, pre-production boards and other small batch/short-run jobs in-house can now get inline reflow results in a small footprint, at an affordable price-now with full computer control.

Manncorp’s BT300CP batch reflow oven has been upgraded to full computer control and now includes a laptop computer for convenient programming and program retrieval, oven operation, real-time display of actual board or oven temperatures, and process data storage and printing.

This benchtop reflow oven's ability to set as many as 40 sequential temperature points allows the temperature curves of solder paste manufacturer recommendations to be accurately reproduced, much the way an inline oven would. This not only produces production-level results but also simplifies the transition from prototyping/small batch production to full production.

BT300CP is a lead-free-capable batch reflow oven that takes up little more than 27" x 22" of table space. It ships directly from San Diego, California, comes with a 2-year parts warranty, and full software support is provided by Manncorp techs in the USA.

The BT300 series is also available as a nitrogen-ready oven (model BT300NCP).

Learn more and access pricing on the BT300CP, or contact sales@manncorp.com to discuss your unique reflow requirements.

New Pick and Place Machine Customer Testimonial

Posted by Manncorp

"Everything delivered well, pick and place machine is working great, we love it." - Efrem Press, Atlas Scientific

Thank you Efrem!

11 Tips to Keep Your Social Media Marketing Focused

From SMT Magazine
Monday, September 17, 2012 | Bruce Johnston, LinkedIn Evangelist & Sales Coach

Today I want to share with you a mix of key concepts that should be integrated into your social media marketing (SMM) plan, along with a couple of ideas that are easy to get mixed up.

What you want to accomplish:

  • Content must be interesting and it must help the reader with a problem that he or she has.
  • The reader should want to read more content like this from you.
  • The reader should to want to share this content with his colleagues.
  • The reader should to want to know more about your company.
  • The reader should to want to talk with you.

Don’t Go Nuts Right Away

“Go nuts” doesn’t sound very businesslike, but I think it conveys the concept very well. Huge campaigns take huge time, effort, and money. Ramp up steadily and see what’s working and what isn’t.

Don’t Confuse Easy with Effective

I see this all the time. Using Facebook and Twitter to just send company news. I can just see the company executives going “Hmph. It’s just as I thought--this whole social media thing is a crock.” One of the concepts that all kinds of people miss is that SMM isn’t free money. You don’t just post anything online and wait for the money to roll in. SMM is like anything else in business or in life. You tend to get results out of it in relation to quantity and quality of effort put in. What you call a "brand awareness campaign” I may call a "waste of time.”

Join Conversations in Industry & User Groups

This is part of  “go where your customers are.” Contribute. Say something interesting. Get noticed. There are so many blatant sales pitches in some of these forums that a thoughtful, articulate comment will have twice the impact.

Keep it Short & Simple

People have short attention spans. And I don’t mean that in a bad way. The fact is, everyone has so much on their plates these days that they just don’t have the time to devote to long content. A 30-minute how-to video on YouTube may be great, but sectioning it into 10 three-minute videos is much better. And maybe 15 two-minute videos would be better still. Keep your content short and simple and to the point.

Be consistent: Don’t Mix Business with Personal

If you are using your Twitter account as a business platform, stop using it for personal use. While social media is less formal than most of us are used to in the business world, remember that you are using it for business. You don’t want to confuse your business reader by interjecting Tweets on your review of the new Batman movie.

Do I Need to Say it Again? Have Great Content

Say I have a network of 1,000 Twitter followers, 1,000 Facebook fans, and 1,000 LinkedIn connections. If you send a tweet with an update that you are exhibiting at a tradeshow is that valuable content I want to share with my network? Pretty unlikely.
But, if you tweet and reference a story about a novel new way you have solved a quality problem that I and my professional peers wrestle with every day? Well, that, my friend, gets shared.

Measure Potential Viewers

Measure potential impressions, that is, the number of times your content could have been read. Examples of this in the old world: The potential number of impressions for an ad on TV is equal to the total viewership of that show. In my case, I post to my blog three times a week, then link the blog to my LinkedIn account, where the posts can be seen as status updates by my 1,000 connections. So, I have a potential 3,000 impressions a week.

Measure Content Interactions

This is where you count re-tweets, shares, visits to your blog, likes and similar activities. Count the times people are actually interacting with your content.

Count Engagement Interactions

Count comments, questions, opt-ins, and any interaction the reader has with you.

Experiment and try different things

Try a lot of little changes. Adjust the length of blog posts. Publish content at different times of the day. Experiment with different headlines. There are a thousand little things you can do. Your job is to always be striving to optimize your content and its delivery such that you maximize your opportunities for engagement.

There’s a lot to learn with SMM. And a lot of things to do, and do well, to get the really spectacular results that are possible.

Twenty years ago, the new tool was e-mail. Completely new concept, something completely different that no one was used to. In many companies, we saw a lot of resistance. In 10 years, it went from no one using it to everyone using it.

Now, SMM is the new tool available to you. You will use it. It’s just a question of whether you’d rather be one of the first or one of the last.

Manncorp PPD-130 Peristaltic Pump Solder Paste Dispenser

Posted by Manncorp

Manncorp PPD-130 Peristaltic Pump Solder Paste Dispenser: Precision-Dispense Solder Paste or Adhesive Direct from Container Without Compressed Air; Easy Loading and Cleaning.



For information, please visit the website: Manncorp PPD-130 Peristaltic Pump Solder Paste Dispenser

Manncorp 2000 SMD Component Counter

Posted by Manncorp

Manncorp 2000 Component Counter: Eliminate inaccurate & time-consuming manual SMD component counts with high precision.



For more information, please visit the website: Manncorp 2000 Component Counter

Manncorp helps manufacturers ‘reshore’ with fully-supported SMT production lines

Written by Editor

After a decade of “cheap” manufacturing, US manufacturers are finding that quality control issues, theft of intellectual property, rising shipping and labor costs, long lead times, supply chain disruptions, customs problems, and the delays caused by distance and communication difficulties are adding much more to the cost of offshoring than expected. Many of these companies are now considering—or actively taking steps toward—‘reshoring,’ or bringing their manufacturing back from Asia to North America. 

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Contract manufacturers have seen demand growing over the past two years, even despite the fact that more OEMs are also ‘insourcing’—setting up their own production lines—to handle some of their work in-house. 

Manncorp offers a cost-effective way for both contract electronics manufacturers and OEMs to expand production capability and capacity on their home turf: complete SMT assembly lines for every level of production. These ‘turnkey’ assembly lines give manufacturers total control over product quality, design changes and lead times. Product upgrades can be handled quickly and inventories managed more cost-effectively than has been possible with manufacturing offshored to far-off Asia.

The ten pre-configured SMT production lines from Manncorp cover the full gamut of surface mount PCB assembly, from prototyping and small batch through high-throughput production, including LED and backplane assembly. All but the ‘Starter’ line are anchored by MC-series pick and place machines, one of the hardest-working, easy-to-use and dependable series of component placement systems on the market. These placers are paired with precision stencil printers and powerful yet compact lead-free-capable reflow ovens.

Purchasing SMT assembly lines in turnkey packages rather than piece-by-piece offers the peace of mind of proven-compatible equipment with the convenience of a single source for purchase and support. With Manncorp turnkey lines, support includes a 2-year parts warranty, remote service software for fast troubleshooting, experienced (10+ years in the industry each) technicians, and the availability of installation and on-site training to get production up and running as smoothly and quickly as possible.

Manufacturers doing through-hole or mixed-technology PCB assembly will also find wave soldering machines and related equipment on Manncorp’s website to cover the full breadth of their production requirements. 

Manncorp offers a no-obligation Requirements Evaluation to help assemblers determine which turnkey assembly line is best suited to their workload. Simply send a typical BOM (bill of materials) to sales@manncorp.com or contact one of Manncorp’s sales and support offices: 800-PIK-MANN (745-6266) for the East Coast office; 888-PIK-MANN (745-6266) for West.

Manncorp Lead Forming Machines

Posted by Manncorp

Manncorp’s axial lead formers put no stress on components— or your budget. They’re fully adjustable for pitch and cut length. Set-up is easy, with no tooling required. On the mechanical units, the ball bearing bushings are sealed in the crank to ensure accuracy. As your business grows, your lead-processing can be handled by machines such as the RT-86.

With smooth shearing action, comfort, safety, and its light weight Manncorp’s axial lead cutters / formers may be the ideal tool for your needs. Additionally, Manncorp radial cutters can achieve production rates up to 25,000pph. These units have independent rotary disc cutters for longer cutting life. Automating your cutting means you’ll save big in PCB assembly while you simplify your component insertion tasks.



For more information, please visit the website: Manncorp Lead Forming Machines

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