Just as each board type enjoys its own thermal profile in
your surface mount oven, each board type also enjoys its own board-wave
parameters in your wave machine
The optimal dwell time for that board was found to be 3.6
seconds, in contrast to 2.8 seconds for the first board. As you can see, the dwell time profiles of
the two boards are different. This
process resulted in dramatically lower defect rates for the second board
studied (which had also been previously run at 1.0 seconds), although never
quite as low as the new baseline which was attained for the first board. This strongly indicates the presence of
sources of defects unrelated to dwell time, for example non-optimal immersion
depth or design problems.
Immersion Depth
Changing your immersion depth changes your contact length
and dwell time. This makes the direct
and accurate measurement of immersion depth critical. Your pump speed produces a wave height
(although this can diminish as your solder pot empties of solder), but the
actual immersion depth of your boards depends on several factors, including
solder pot height, how they sit in the fingers, if your fingers are bent,
broken or crooked, the angle of your conveyor and whether or not pallets are
used.
Yet controlling your immersion depth - measuring it and
keeping it consistent - is only one piece of the puzzle. Another is:
At which immersion depth is your board quality optimized? This point is illustrated by figure 4. See that the defect rate of the board
represented by the blue bars is optimized over a different range (48 mil, or
even 36 to 60 mil) than the board represented by the yellow bars (at 24 to 36
mil). So, different board types benefit
most from different immersion depths.
Quantifying Cost Benefits
Prior to this study, yield loss was tracked on a monthly
basis as a measure of the cost of production failures. Production volume for the board studied was
11,000 per month.
1.) With the implementation of optimal dwell time procedures
using the described device, yield loss went from 3.0% (330 boards) to 1.6% (176
boards) in the first month of daily use.
2.) This meant a reduction in yield loss of 154 boards per
month. For a 30 day month, this means
5.13 boards per day.
3.) At 300 for the cost of each board, cost reduction based
on improved yield loss alone was 46,200 per month, which annualizes to
554,400.
4.) That means that the return on investment on the device
used in the study was less than five days.
Conclusion: A seemingly
small daily improvement in wave solder quality meant fast, very large,
measurable monthly and annual cost savings.
These figures do not even account for the valuable savings from benefits
like reduced rework and field failures, less downtime and increased throughput,
each of which in its own right can be more valuable than the rapid savings on
yield loss.
your surface mount oven, each board type also enjoys its own board-wave
parameters in your wave machine
The optimal dwell time for that board was found to be 3.6
seconds, in contrast to 2.8 seconds for the first board. As you can see, the dwell time profiles of
the two boards are different. This
process resulted in dramatically lower defect rates for the second board
studied (which had also been previously run at 1.0 seconds), although never
quite as low as the new baseline which was attained for the first board. This strongly indicates the presence of
sources of defects unrelated to dwell time, for example non-optimal immersion
depth or design problems.
Immersion Depth
Changing your immersion depth changes your contact length
and dwell time. This makes the direct
and accurate measurement of immersion depth critical. Your pump speed produces a wave height
(although this can diminish as your solder pot empties of solder), but the
actual immersion depth of your boards depends on several factors, including
solder pot height, how they sit in the fingers, if your fingers are bent,
broken or crooked, the angle of your conveyor and whether or not pallets are
used.
Yet controlling your immersion depth - measuring it and
keeping it consistent - is only one piece of the puzzle. Another is:
At which immersion depth is your board quality optimized? This point is illustrated by figure 4. See that the defect rate of the board
represented by the blue bars is optimized over a different range (48 mil, or
even 36 to 60 mil) than the board represented by the yellow bars (at 24 to 36
mil). So, different board types benefit
most from different immersion depths.
Quantifying Cost Benefits
Prior to this study, yield loss was tracked on a monthly
basis as a measure of the cost of production failures. Production volume for the board studied was
11,000 per month.
1.) With the implementation of optimal dwell time procedures
using the described device, yield loss went from 3.0% (330 boards) to 1.6% (176
boards) in the first month of daily use.
2.) This meant a reduction in yield loss of 154 boards per
month. For a 30 day month, this means
5.13 boards per day.
3.) At 300 for the cost of each board, cost reduction based
on improved yield loss alone was 46,200 per month, which annualizes to
554,400.
4.) That means that the return on investment on the device
used in the study was less than five days.
Conclusion: A seemingly
small daily improvement in wave solder quality meant fast, very large,
measurable monthly and annual cost savings.
These figures do not even account for the valuable savings from benefits
like reduced rework and field failures, less downtime and increased throughput,
each of which in its own right can be more valuable than the rapid savings on
yield loss.
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