SMTAI: A Big Success
Folks, I just can back from SMTAI in Minneapolis a few weeks ago. To me it was a big success. One of the reasons being that attendance was higher than...
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Tin Whiskers 101: Part 2: What Causes Them
Folks, Continuing our series on tin whiskers. In the last post we discussed what they are. in this post we will discuss what causes them. Tin whiske...
Winners Announced for SMT IQ Test
Folks, A few weeks ago, I posted an SMT quiz on my blog as an opportunity for my readers to test their SMT IQ. We recei...
Test your SMT IQ to See if You Are Ready to Go Back to Your Campus
Folks, Do you know the answers to the questions below?...
Tin Whiskers 101: What are They?
Folks, Tin whiskers are very fine filaments or whiskers of tin that form out of the surface of the tin. See Figure 1. They are the result of stress re...
Full Autonomous Vehicles Still Decades Away?
Folks, Businessweek’s recent article on autonomous vehicles summarized the current state of this fascinating technology. The article discussed W...
Matching a Reflow Profile to a Solder Paste Spec
Folks, Matching a reflow profile to a solder paste spec is a required skill for an SMT process engineer. In light of this, let’s do an exam...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...