PCB Manufacturing, Assembly & Test Blog

Recent Posts

• Stencil Aperture Ratio Tests : Your input is requested, please
• The World Is Trying It’s Hardest To Leave Me Unimpressed….
• The value of consolidated data preparation
• Get the little things right - consistently
• We're eager to hear your improvement suggestions
• Quality requires intelligence
• Pedal Faster, We Need The Watts!
• The 'black art' of PCBA test & quality
• The Chinese Way?
• The lowest costs come from the highest quality

Archives

• May, 2012
  • Stencil Aperture Ratio Tests : Your input is requested, please
  • The World Is Trying It’s Hardest To Leave Me Unimpressed….
  • The value of consolidated data preparation
  • Get the little things right - consistently
  • We're eager to hear your improvement suggestions
  • Quality requires intelligence
• April, 2012
  • Pedal Faster, We Need The Watts!
  • The 'black art' of PCBA test & quality
  • The Chinese Way?
  • The lowest costs come from the highest quality
  • Improving AOI programming time with better management of inspection template names
• March, 2012
  • Conducting The Manufacturing Orchestra…..
  • Having trouble creating part data for programming Juki SMT machines?
  • Using an effective DFM analysis process
• December, 2011
  • Production Schedules- Guidelines
• November, 2011
  • Production Schedules- Alignment
• October, 2011
  • Production Schedules- Planning
  • DFA: Design For Assembly or Design And Assembly
• September, 2011
  • To DFT or not DFT? That is not a question
  • Reducing manufacturing issues through complete DFM Analysis
• August, 2011
  • Materialistically Speaking…..
  • Who knew that you could balance 100's of work orders simultaneously?
• April, 2011
  • Dynamic build order management
• March, 2011
  • 101 ways to use the Valor Parts Library (VPL)
• February, 2011
  • Components, Bill Of Materials and Approved Vendor Lists
  • Achieving Optimal Manufacturing Flow using OEE (Part 4)
• January, 2011
  • It Just ‘Flu By!
  • Process Engineering and achieving optimum manufacturing flow a dream? (Part 3)
  • Welcome to 2011!!
• December, 2010
  • Is achieving optimum manufacturing flow a dream? (Part 1)
• November, 2010
  • You’ve implemented a QMS and shop-floor system …….Now what? - Part 2
  • Assembling The Light Fantastic!
• October, 2010
  • You’ve implemented a QMS and shop-floor system …….Now what?
• September, 2010
  • Extreme Design!
• August, 2010
  • Laziness – Something I’m Good At!
  • DFx in Assembly Manufacturing ….. Why Bother?
  • No More Trade-Offs!
• July, 2010
  • Sex and the Facility
  • Coming Together - An Engineering Masterpiece
  • Buyer Beware
• June, 2010
  • "Made In America"
  • DFM, starts with Design and ends with Manufacturing
  • Design for obfuscation!
  • Welcome to
• May, 2010
  • Don’t Let Rotation Corrections Ruin Your Day
  • PCB Design Does Matter! The Study
  • Editors ask good questions. It's their job!
• March, 2010
  • Why Valor???