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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Folks, It is natural to expect that Indium Corporation is the premiere supplier of indium metal, solder pastes, preforms, compounds, and chemistry sol...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Folks, In a recent post, I discussed Moore’s Law. I challenged readers to solve for "a" and "b", from the equation a*2^(b*(y...
Folks, I recently read an article about “Lighthouse Factories” which appear to be implementations of Industry 4.0. It is encouraging that ...
Folks, The vast majority of solders used in electronic assembly have, as their base metal, tin. There are some specialty gold solders, like gold-co...