New Excel Software Tools to Practice for SMTA Certification #1: Line Balancing
Folks, I recently developed some Excel®-based software to help those who are planning to take the SMTA certification exam to practice. Software to...
Folks, I recently developed some Excel®-based software to help those who are planning to take the SMTA certification exam to practice. Software to...
Folks, some years ago I created a software tool, StencilCoach™, to calculate the stencil parameters to provide for an adequate amount of so...
Folks, Over ten years ago, I created the characters Patty and The Professor. The intent was to tell SMT assembly process improvement stories through t...
Folks, One of the great advantages of being a professor at Dartmouth College is working with the world’s best young students. However, Emily Dea...
Folks, Chris Nash and I (supported by an army of Indium Corporation’s outstanding engineers) wrote a booklet on eliminating solder defects. The ...
Folks, Gold is often used to protect other metals from corrosion. It so effectively resists corrosion that gold is plated over metals like copper when...
Folks, When comparing the volume of solder paste provided by a circular versus square aperture, consider that if the side of the square is D and the d...
Folks, Let’s look in on a graduate student of Ivy University…….. John Foster felt very fortunate. Not only did he get his undergra...
Folks, I will be presenting three papers at PanPac 2022. They are: 1. Low Melt High Remelt Solder Paste, co-authored with Claire Hotvedt of Indium Cor...
Folks, In our last post, we discussed techniques to mitigate tin whiskers. To help determine what your tin whisker mitigation strategy should be, cons...
Folks, In the last post on tin whiskers, we discussed detection. In this post, we will cover mitigation. Since compressive stresses are a primary caus...
Folks, One of the great challenges of tin whiskers is detecting them. When one considers that their median thickness is in the 3 to 5 micron range (a...