In Soldering, Understanding the Cause and Cure for NWO (Non-Wet Opens)
Non-Wet Opens (NWO): Understand the cause as well as the necessary flux technology to mitigate them....
Non-Wet Opens (NWO): Understand the cause as well as the necessary flux technology to mitigate them....
In SMT Statistical Process Control, the bottom line is that Cpk is king. Here's the proof....
Folks, It is hard to imagine, but it has been just a little short of 13 years ago that Jim Hall, Phil Zarrow and I approached SMTA’s JoAnn Strom...
My most recent blog topics have had to do with Wave Soldering Machine Components, but statistics is also something that interests me. Have y...
It sounds bad for me to say this, but I have a lot of SMT magazines cross my desk and, honestly, the solder paste articles rarely draw my interest. I ...
Many of my posts have been discussing the different types of wave soldering fluxers: th...
My last two posts (1) (2) have been about the different facets of spray fluxing and the systems......
Patty was just getting ready to leave her office for a bi-weekly luncheon with the Professor, Pete, and Rob. They had regular meetings like this...
If you haven’t heard about Bi-containing (bismuth) solder alloys recently, that may change in the near future. Low-melting Bi-containing solders...
Spray Fluxing is the most common way to flux a printed circuit board today. When spray fluxers were first developed they were clumsy, inefficient......
Packaging is an extremely important part of specifying solder preforms. Not only does packaging affect the price of the order, it also effects how the...
In a six-part SMT assembly series, we discussed the advantages of using fine powder solder pastes to improve process yields for stencil printing, espe...