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i've never seen or heard of an automated board rework system. thinking about the steps and things i've had to do to manually rework boards, your machine would n
by sigstoat 8y ago
i've never seen or heard of an automated board rework system. thinking about the steps and things i've had to do to manually rework boards, your machine would need not only be able to apply force to pull parts off of boards without damaging the board, but also be prepared to restore pads / through holes to usable states after desoldering parts, before new ones could go back in.
there's a reason companies don't repair circuit boards in consumer electronics.
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoI've done it myself, save restoring pads -- to me it's just the sort of fiddly, finnickety thing that it seems like robots sold be good at. And, they're not going to burn their fingers or run out of hands to hold things!
- PeterisP 8y agoRobots are good at repetitive tasks and economy of scale. Doing a tricky action for ten thousand boards is something that robots are good at; doing a different tricky action on each of a hundred boards is not. It doesn't seem plausible to have a business case where you'd get be able to get a large quantity of identical boards (that are otherwise good!), replace caps on them, and be able to sell them for much more than you got them - i.e. that the boards haven't become obsolete in that time. If there's no mass production, there's not much use for automation.