Hello

We have six 400C's and we use 5 seconds a part. For most boards this works
fine. Adjust up a little for large boards or boards which will need a lot
of bin changes where the operator will be waiting on either the rotary bins
or on the jit bin.

Stewart Gadd
Prod. Eng Supervisor
Chemigraphic Ltd


At 16:55 02/08/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi all!
>
>I'm trying to come with a good "guestimate" of how many components per hour
>an operator should be able to stuff in a board using a Contact CS400. Contact
>says their machine has a cycle rate of 1500 per hour (for 3" table moves). I
>know it's going to be component and board dependant, how aggressive the
>operator is, etc.. I do however think that 1500 components an hour is a
>"little" outside realm of most humans.
>
>I'm thinking maybe 5-8 seconds per component depending on what it is...does
>that sound reasonable?
>
>-Steve Gregory-
>
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