As with Voiding, when using Mixed Technology, Start with a Good Solder Paste
Patty was walking to her office as she saw Professor Ulf Gabrielson pass by. What an impressive older gent she thought. He had been a cont...
Patty was walking to her office as she saw Professor Ulf Gabrielson pass by. What an impressive older gent she thought. He had been a cont...
Electronics manufacturers who have considered implementing nitrogen in their soldering process know the largest obstacle is cost. Let's explore....
Indium Corporation's Marketing Communications Specialist Colleen Bierstine discusses SMT Processes Certification with the creators of the SMT Proc...
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...
The next few posts come to us from my colleagues Karthik Vijay, Indium Corporation’s Technical Manager for Europe and Liam Mills of TT Electroni...
The Indium Corporation has many summer interns this year. The technical support group was fortunate enough to hire Sarah Bjornland (pictured). She is ...
Most of our customers use whatever heating method they already have, unless they are starting from scratch or unless there is a reason their existing ...
Here’s a true story regarding the service temperature of solder joints. Yesterday, as I left work, I noticed that it felt really hot outside. I ...
Lamp style preheaters have the fastest response time of any of the previous preheaters mentioned in other posts. The lamp filament is practicall...
Finally – the fun part! After all of your work specifying the right materials and applying them, at last we can test all of the assumptions we h...
My last post talked about the pros and cons of CalRod® style preheaters. This post will be devoted to hot air style preheaters. It makes sense t...
We continue our discussion of solder reflow methods. As the name suggests, quartz plate preheaters have thick quartz plates in which the heating eleme...