Dartmouth Students Ace Quiz
Folks, Several of my students (Left to right in photo: Danien Pineau-Valencienne, Ryan Conger, Tom Freeze, and Jonathan Barlow) mastered the quiz post...
Indium
Rick Short Does It Again
Folks, One of my buddies at Indium is Rick Short. He is an amazing and funny marcom guy. Check out his latest work Re video ads. Hilarious,......
Two Second Reduction in Cycle Time = $600K per Year on the Average SMT Line
Folks, Much of my work is related to productivity improvement on SMT assembly lines. When one considers that the electronics assembly industry manufac...
Interest in Formula for Calculating Alloy Density Still Keen
Folks, The technique to calculate density of an alloy still attracts interest about a year after I first discussed it. Although I am pleased to shar...
May 13 Swatch Posting Generates Much Debate
Folks, If there is anything that I hope my blog does is to generate useful debate about the happenings in the electronics industry to help us all pros...
When 100 Billion Doesn't Seem So Large
Folks, As Carl Sagan once told us, there are “billions and billions” of galaxies. Actually, astronomers estimate that there are 100 billio...
Dr. Ron Giving Free WEEE/RoHS Workshop at Dartmouth
Folks, I am giving an updated version of my one day workshop on WEEE/RoHS compliant assembly at The Thayer School of Enginnering at Dartmouth o...
Missing the Point About WEEE and RoHS
Folks, My Indium colleague Jim Slattery, pointed out an interesting article in Electronic Design. After the article, some people sent in responses. A ...
General RoHS Questions
Haibing writes: Question 1: My questions are centered around RoHS judgments. That is, how I can judge whether a contract manufacturer is RoHS c...
Tin Pest in Scandinavian Church Organ Pipes
Annika writes: Dear Dr. Ron, I’m a chemist and a PhD student working in the field of atmospheric corrosion of lead and lead-tin alloys in histor...
News from Quickstart Seminar: Lead Free Has Advantages
Folks, My friends at Indium put on another of their terrific Quickstart Workshops in Libertyville, IL this past Tuesday and Wednesday. In addition to ...
Dr. Ron and His English Longbow
Folks, In addition to working with my wonderful friends and Indium Corp and teaching statistics and manufacturing process courses at Dartmouth, I have...