Join Me at SMTA Pan Pacific February 5-8
Folks, I am giving a paper, chairing a session and hosting a panel at SMTA Pan Pacific on Februrary 6, 2018 at the Hapuna Beach Prince Resort in Hawai...
Folks, I am giving a paper, chairing a session and hosting a panel at SMTA Pan Pacific on Februrary 6, 2018 at the Hapuna Beach Prince Resort in Hawai...
Robotic Soldering II After reading my last post on robotic soldering, you have decided that you have a good robotic soldering application and want to ...
Clearly robots will take away many jobs, just as power looms in the early 1800s or the assembly line of 100 years ago. But, in soldering?...
Folks, I attended a technical session on Industry 4.0 at SMTAI in Rosemont, IL in September. I admit to not knowing much about it, so I found the topi...
Folks, The challenge of removing heat from electronics is almost as old as the 100 year old electronics industry. In modern electronics, most of...
Reduced materials of construction, reduced materials in the waste stream, reduced waste heat, and reduced energy consumption per equivalent light outp...
Learn how a small increase in productivity results in a large increase in profitability....
Interviewing for a job can be a stressful experience. After interviewing more than 300 people for jobs, and going through a few interviews myself, I h...
Folks, When following the elections last fall, we often heard that a certain poll either was or was not statistically significant. As an example, cand...
Folks, The risk priority number (RPN) of failure modes an effects analysis (FMEA) is a useful tool to help make decisions relating to risk. It is defi...
Folks, With the advent of modern imaging devices it is now possible to measure the transfer efficiency (TE) of thousands of stencil prints. This situa...
How to calculate the area ratio of unusually shaped apertures, such as the elongated D-shape. ...