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Care Card
A care card for South African electronics floors, with routine checks for feeders, nozzles, conveyors and reflow areas.
How Care Card helps on a live SMT production week
Care Card in resources is a short floor document for routine SMT checks on feeders, nozzles, conveyors and the reflow area. It gives technicians a simple reference they can keep near the line during normal production.
Care Card is set up for routine SMT checks during normal production on South African electronics sites. It gives technicians one place to note feeder condition, nozzle wear, conveyor observations, and reflow area findings before small faults turn into board loss. Inland dust, coastal humidity, and power interruptions all affect what should be checked first on a running line.
Keep the Care Card near the machine, not buried in a file. Technicians can jot down the first fault seen, add board and feeder photos, and record timing while the details are still accurate. That record helps the next shift see what was checked, swapped, cleaned, or ruled out.
Checks logged during production
The page supports a short record of what happened on the line and what was tested before escalation. Include the board type, station involved, visible symptom, and any feeder, nozzle, conveyor, or oven checks already done. Short notes are easier to use at the machine than long fault reports written later.
Use Care Card with the related reflow note and board records when a fault touches more than one station. Before product leaves the area, confirm labels, attached photos, and timing notes are complete. SMT line enquiries should name the board type, the placement volume and the machines already on the line.
- Routine feeder and nozzle checks
- Fault timing captured at the line
- Photos attached with line findings
Checks shaped by site conditions
A Care Card must make sense on established SMT lines, not only on tidy training setups. Notes may need to reflect dispatch cut-offs, shift handovers, shared feeders, or boards waiting for collection. Write down the production effect separately from the wider weekly plan so the issue can be read quickly at the machine.
At Durban and other coastal sites, moisture and salt residue can shorten cleaning intervals around feeders and exposed metal parts. In Johannesburg and other inland areas, fine dust can build up on covers, sensors, and conveyor sections. After load-shedding or restart events, add the timing of the stop and the first checks completed before output resumed.
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Care Card entries that matter
Use this Care Card to log the line fault, attach board and feeder photos, note production timing, and list what has already been tested. Keep the subject line plain and accurate.
Record the line fault on the day it happens while the board, feeder, and timing details are still visible. Add photos, list what was tested, and keep the wording plain so another technician can follow it without extra explanation. This resource works best as a short machine-side reference, not as a long office document.