Yep…the video reminded me a lot of
the NCR PC board facility I knew in
Ron
WW8RR
From: Fourlanders
[mailto:fourlanders-bounces@contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Brian McCarthy
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015
3:46 AM
To: Jim Worsham
Cc: Fourlanders
Subject: Re: [Fourlanders] TS-990
being built
Jim,
That video looked too much like my work. Unfortunately, Kenwood does not seem
to be using any of my machines for the pick-and-place. The hand placement of
thru-hole components is still common. I have been working with a new machine
that is designed to do that kind of odd form parts placement. It is rather
amazing what can be done with machine vision and a scrubbing motion to insert
parts. A lot of the plants are telling us that hand placement is becoming a
liability in terms of mistakes, repeatability, cycle time and staffing.
We also have a 3D x-ray automated inspection machine that could do the
manual BGA inspection shown in the video. There is significant market pressure
to automate that step.
The people that build
cars and handsets are still doing real hardware every day and most are doing it
3 shifts a day. There are still a lot of shops doing assembly here in the
Lately, I've been wanting
to get away from the physical hardware part of my work. Working on a noisy and
busy shop floor isn't as interesting as it used to be. It's still cool to see
things created from bits, pieces and data. It's just a messy noisy process.
Cheers,
Brian
On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 2:59 AM, Jim Worsham <w4kxy@bellsouth.net>
wrote:
Good to see that someone somewhere has factories still making
stuff. I am at CES in Vegas. It is all about apps, software,
hackathons, etc. nothing real anymore. Anyway, a very nice
rig. Kim and I saw an early prototype at the Kenwood hospitality suite in
73
Jim, W4KXY
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