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Field notes from Jason Wu — 30+ years of hands-on THT auto insertion experience. Articles on custom-designed SMT & THT machines, odd-form feeding, wave soldering, and spare parts for future-proof, cost-effective EMS production lines.
Wave soldering consumables, ESD products, a modular cleanroom and an environmental chamber - four categories that arrived in five days in Argentina, and were handled as one programme instead of four sourcing exercises.
Brass splice clips to a home appliance manufacturer in Ecuador: research to dispatch in six days. The unit value does not justify a long administrative cycle, and the line stops just the same when the part is missing.
Three spare-part batches for a Turkish instrument manufacturer. The 2026 batch was heading nowhere until a joint supplier and customer meeting turned the enquiry into an order in eleven days.
Twelve heater cores for a BGA rework station, from enquiry to shipment in eighteen days. The part was cheap. The bench it was sitting on was not. Here is how to tell which clock you are actually paying for.
A US LED device manufacturer ordered 250 ESD board racks. One requirement decided the whole specification: the rack has to survive contact with boards that have not cooled. They asked for the temperature rating in writin
A stencil cleaner spares enquiry came from a maquiladora in Mexico. The engineer who raised it handled both maintenance and SMT process engineering, so a single reply had to cover both worlds—and it went out in Spanish.
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