I
think it may take less effort to get the OK from your customer than to convince
the inspector,
but
your frustration is well founded.
On the
other hand you could just spin your stencil and charge it to
QA.
Hi All!
The fun never
ends...
I've been involved in a rather heated (albeit silly, I
think...) debate with an inspector here, about adhesive being deposited where
there is no component loaded.
As you may surmise from my posts over the
past few days, I stencil epoxy, not dispense. For some reason, the issue has
come up with one of my inspectors here, requesting that I get something in
writing from our customer saying that it's okay to have epoxy deposits at
locations where there is no component loaded. I told her that I wasn't going
to do it because I didn't want to look silly asking our customer if it was
okay to have a glue dot at a location that's not loaded.
Her reasoning
is that we're putting something on the board that's not being called out on
the bill of material. My response is that the epoxy isn't called out anyway,
but we have to use it to be able to process this board that has PTH and SMT on
the bottom. "But there's no component there, so there shouldn't be any glue
there." was her response. "But it doesn't make any difference, it's a
non-issue" I calmly replied.
We've been debating this for 2-days now,
and I'm about at my wits end. There's nothing in the -610 or the J-STD-001
that says it's defect, or that it's forbidden to deposit epoxy where a
component isn't loaded, and there's nothing in the documentation from our
customer to keep the unused areas free from epoxy. I've already spent much
more time on this issue than I ever thought I would. Why this issue has
popped-up now, I don't have a clue. Me thinks it's much ado about
nothing.
What is your take on this issue?
-Steve Gregory-
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