Posted On: January 19th, 2007 | By: Dr. Ron Lasky

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...

Posted On: January 18th, 2007 | By: Dr. Ron Lasky

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...

Posted On: May 27th, 2006 | By: Dr. Ron Lasky

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...

Posted On: April 16th, 2006 | By: Dr. Ron Lasky

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...

Posted On: April 3rd, 2006 | By: Dr. Ron Lasky

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...

Posted On: March 26th, 2006 | By: Dr. Ron Lasky

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 ...

Posted On: March 18th, 2006 | By: Dr. Ron Lasky

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...

Posted On: February 8th, 2006 | By: Dr. Ron Lasky

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...

Posted On: May 19th, 2005 | By: Dr. Ron Lasky

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 ...

Posted On: April 11th, 2005 | By: Dr. Ron Lasky

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...