Hi,

I'm Mr. Ilkka Lehtinen, a Quality Manager in Teleste Corporation's (a
Finnish company) manufacturing company in Suzhou, China. It's honor for me
also to join this discussion forum.

Our contract manufacturer has a problem they cannot solve themselves with
SMD components: every now and then we find boards that have one or two SMD
capacitors, resistors or inductors fallen off the board somewhere during the
manufacturing process. The resistors and capacitors are 5-sided termination
components and inductors are bottom only termination components. Normal
stuff. The size is 0603. 

The problem is not location specific so it's not caused by some mishandling
or that some areas are somehow prone to this kind of behavior.

I'm out of glues. Has anybody faced this kind of problem or have any idea?


Thanks in advance,

Ilkka Lehtinen
Quality Manager
Teleste (Suzhou)