Professional assembly mishaps

[capt bullshot]

How on earth did that get packed and sent?

This thing never left the shop and was properly scrapped before I could take the photo.

[IconicPCB]

Flooding ...depends on the machine and or pallet.

Somtimes the machine board sensor will mistime and the wave will come on too early.

Sometimes if the board is not clipped into a carrier pallet solder may flood the board through the gap.

[Simon]

Pfft, bit of solderwick and a steady hand, she'll be right...

As the machinists say, it will buff out.

just hold it at the right angle and blow torch it

[JPortici]

Top board was not communicating with bottom board

[ddavidebor]

It's only me who never had this sort of issues?

[SMTech]

If the production doesn't happen in your own facility, there really isn't much reason for you to get to see it. Accidents/Failures will happen on even the best of production lines, particularly in smaller volumes where there isn't the budget to justify a jig/pallet which could/should have prevented some of the flooding examples shown.

[JPortici]

Exactly. we get to see something that has slipped through QC at the production facility, because the vision system (or the qc employee) wouldn't be able to recognize the failure.
Every time we catch something the production facility asks for a report so that they can improve the process

[jonroger]

> A very good way to test for fake ICs is X-ray.

Perhaps publishing a X-ray fingerprint for parts will become standard.   Similar to signed binaries for software.

[Leo Bodnar]

Today we have rescued our £££ assembly kit from a UK assembly house that went into administration few days ago. 
I think we were hours away from never seeing it again.

Their last batch has tonnes of problems but we are happy we at least got non-working boards back and the rest of the kit.

Plumbing new lows.

Leo

[mikeselectricstuff]

Today we have rescued our £££ assembly kit from a UK assembly house that went into administration few days ago. 

Who, out of curiosity ? (I believe administration is on public record) - PM if you prefer.

Many years ago I bought a load of stuff from a tender sale of an assembly house - at the viewing there were a number of un-lotted boxes which they told me were subject to retention of title, and were clearly customer kits, assemblies and test jigs, but on the day of collection the auctioneer company people  didn't give a toss and were happy to let it all go to anyone to avoid having to haul it into the skip.

[Cerebus]

Who, out of curiosity ? (I believe administration is on public record)

Yes, very much so. As well as there being court records (High Court) of administrators appointed, a notice of the appointment is posted in the London Gazette.