I found Ray Prasad's, "Surface Mount Technology--Principles and
Practice," to be a very helpful and update reference book.

Regards,

Tim Stammely
Manufacturing Engineer
Manufacturing Services & Integration (MSI)

>-----Original Message-----
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>Sent:  Friday, January 23, 1998 4:42 PM
>To:    [log in to unmask]
>Subject:       [TN] Design for Manufacturing
>
>     All,
>
>     We are a small engineering and manufacturing company just getting into
>     surface mount assembly.  We have been almost exclusively through hole
>but
>     with the elimination of many through hole parts, we find it necessary to
>     move on.  Additionally, most of our manufacturing contracts in the past
>     were older 'build to print' jobs based upon old designs for our military
>     customers.
>     Soon, both manufacturing and engineering representatives will meet to
>     discuss manufacturing's design requirements.  Because we have had so
>little
>     experience with surface mount assembly, we really don't know what to ask
>     for from a design for manufacturing standpoint.
>     I would be interested in any design specifications or really any reading
>     material that could point us in the right direction (i.e. pad geometry,
>     component orientation, etc.) as well as manufacturing
>     specifications/guidelines (i.e. stencil printing, solder reflow, etc.).
>We
>     are currently reviewing IPC-S-816, D-279, and SM-782.
>
>     Thank you all in advance of your support.
>
>     Steve McBride
>     Manufacturing Engineer
>     Frontier Electronic Systems Corp.
>
>     (www.FEI-CORP.com)
>
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