Hi Ioan! There is quite a bit of excellent X-ray equipment available on the market and a trip to IPC APEX would be one good way to evaluate multiple equipment vendors at one time! You need to decide just what capabilities you want in an X-ray system because the more capability, the greater the cost. We use Glenbrook Jewel Box 90 systems in our manufacturing facilities - good, rugged systems with good overall capability for voids, shorts, etc. and we use Fein Focus in our Failure Analysis laboratory - very high tech system for the necessities of failure analysis investigations. My recommendation is pull together a list of "must have" and "would like to have" system capabilities, match that to you budget and use the APEX opportunity to conduct your evaluations of the various X-ray system suppliers. Good luck. Dave Hillman Rockwell Collins [log in to unmask] Ioan Tempea <[log in to unmask]> Sent by: TechNet <[log in to unmask]> 02/15/2008 07:53 AM Please respond to TechNet E-Mail Forum <[log in to unmask]>; Please respond to Ioan Tempea <[log in to unmask]> To [log in to unmask] cc Subject [TN] X-Ray equipment Dear Technos, One more topic: what are your experiences with X-Ray equipment? Which brand/model would you recommend or not advise? We are a typical EMS and would like to inspect as accurately as possible BGAs and leadless. So voids and hole-fill measuring capability is desired. If possible, we would like to be able to localize an open BGA joint. Not exactly looking for big budget laminography machines like the 5DX, but it should at least be 2D plus rotation capability. Or a regular, not so loaded 3D system... On-line and off-line answers welcome. Thanks, Ioan --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 15.0 To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 ----------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 15.0 To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 -----------------------------------------------------