mswlogo;204274 Wrote: > Regarding no parts pickers/wave solder. I'll bet, as most companies do > they run a mix of automation and hand work. You need to do hand work > for large parts and cables and amps obviously have a lot of large > parts. But many chips and parts are have such fine pitch pins or are so > small that you DON'T want to hand solder them !! And looking at the pics > they have some high denisty parts and small parts there. They may get > boards partially stuffed with the small high denisty parts from an > outside source too. That what we do.
I certainly didn't see that. I wish I had taken some shots of the assembly area now because I assure you all there was at the start of the line were bare boards in plastic bags. Person 1 did some work, passing it to person 2, etc. etc. However there are some truly small surface-mount components at the analog output section of their CDP (lower left corner of the photo), so you have a point. There is no automation in-house, at least nothing Brian showed me. He also made the distinction between what they do and what they have others do for them. He was very adamant that all circuit work is done by them but that ancillary things like chassis machining is done outside (I asked him this when I saw that stunning aluminum faceplate on the 28B SST - there was no equipment in-house that could produce this.) He also made a special point of showing the only piece of automation in the factory. I forget what it was for, sorry, but it looked like a small drill press and it was behind the silk-screening bench. -- Mark Lanctot 'Sean Adams' Response-O-Matic checklist, patent pending!' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=200910&postcount=2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35553 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
