People Still Not Getting the Purpose of RoHS
Folks, People in the solder and leadfree world still do not understand the prime reason for RoHS: To make recycling easier. A recent article about Swa...
Folks, People in the solder and leadfree world still do not understand the prime reason for RoHS: To make recycling easier. A recent article about Swa...
Folks, My Indium colleague Jim Slattery, pointed out an interesting article in Electronic Design. After the article, some people sent in responses. A ...
Haibing writes: Question 1: My questions are centered around RoHS judgments. That is, how I can judge whether a contract manufacturer is RoHS c...
Folks: A reader writes: Dr. Ron I attended your seminars last year at the SMTAI Technical Conference in Chicago and Boston and discussed with you LF i...
Folks, My friend and colleague Jim Hall of ITM pointed out that the reliability of “mixed” (i.e. lead free and leaded solder and fi...
Annika writes: Dear Dr. Ron, I’m a chemist and a PhD student working in the field of atmospheric corrosion of lead and lead-tin alloys in histor...
Folks, As the clock ticks away, many people are becoming overwhelmed by WEEE and RoHS tasks. For technologists like myself, many of the RoHS tasks are...
Folks, Several weeks ago I had a blog entry asking whether or not Microsoft’s new Xbox 360 was RoHS compliant. Angela pointed me to a lin...
Folks, In the last 3 weeks I have given “Lead-Free” (Really WEEE/RoHS Compliant Assembly) workshops at Toronto, Salt Lake City, Manchester...
Folks, I read with dismay this week, an advertisement in an electronic assembly trade journal touting a “drop in” solder paste. The solder...
Folks, I am still surprised that so few people are concerned about tin pest in lead-free assembly. Below is an excerpt from a paper I wrote on the top...
Wu writes: I saw your article in SMT, Hoping for WEEE and RoHS Exemptions . What are WEEE and RoHS?br......