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Handling bad circuit boards
April 30, 2007
You have a printed-circuit board that has failed a test or inspection step somewhere along the production process. What do you do with it? Writing at Circuitnet, Gary Goldberg, president and CEO of Promation, discusses post AOI, AXI, and in-line test handling. He comments on approaches including operator intervention prompted by a pass/fail alarm, an inline magazine station that accumulates boards for offline rework, and an inline rework loop employing sorting shuttles. In each case, he says, the optimal approach will depend on overall line flow, cycle times, and personnel and floor-space requirements. You can read the full article here.
Posted by Rick Nelson on April 30, 2007 | Comments (0)
