Common Ball Grid Array Failures and How to Avoid Them

The BGA ball-mount process may seem uninteresting and trivial at first glance. However, the soldering steps are complex and can lead to problematic fa...

Posted On: July 6th, 2021 | By: Dr. Ron Lasky

Belated Happy Birthday RoHS

Folks, Happy Birthday RoHS! A milestone occurred, and it seemed to be missed: RoHS celebrated its 15th birthday on July 1st! For those new to electron...

Posted On: June 21st, 2021 | By: Dr. Ron Lasky

Calculating Total Downtime

Folks, Downtime calculations can be a bit confusing. Most people would assume that if a line has 4 machines and they are each down for 5% of the time...

Posted On: June 9th, 2021 | By: Tushar Tike

The 20 Questions Game

Do we really understand the things that we do at our work places if we are unable to explain them in simple terms to our own child? What if we ca...

Posted On: June 6th, 2021 | By: Dr. Ron Lasky

Hypothesis and Confidence Interval Calculations for Cp and Cpks

Folks, I am re-posting an updated blog post on Cp and Cpk calculations with Excel®, as I have improved the Excel® spreadsheet. If you wou...

Posted On: May 9th, 2021 | By: Dr. Ron Lasky

Gallium: An Interesting, Versatile Material

Folks, It is natural to expect that Indium Corporation is the premiere supplier of indium metal, solder pastes, preforms, compounds, and chemistry sol...

Posted On: May 3rd, 2021 | By: Robert McKerrow

Automated Soldering Methods: What’s the Difference Between Robotic Soldering and Laser Soldering?

Laser soldering is making its way into the market and onto electronics assembly lines. What's the difference between this method and iron-tip robo...

Posted On: April 30th, 2021 | By: Dr. Ron Lasky

Answers to SMT Quiz

A few weeks ago, I posted an SMT quiz on my blog. We received 178 responses, which seemed very good to me. Working with my Indium Corpo...

Posted On: April 27th, 2021 | By: Claire Hotvedt

Bringing Solder Paste Reliability to E-Mobility

The next generation of vehicles have power inverters and battery management systems that demand incredible reliability......

Posted On: April 26th, 2021 | By: Jenny Gallery

Solder in Medical Devices: That Solder’s Going Where?

Cardiac pacemakers generally use 99.99% Au preforms as the solder material in the assembly. Pure gold is highly pure, inert, biocompatible, has a high...

Posted On: April 13th, 2021 | By: Dr. Ron Lasky

Take the SMT Quiz and Perhaps Win a Prize

Folks: Do you know how much copper is in SAC305 solder? What about the most typical solder paste powder diameter? These questions, and eight others, a...

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