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There is one software that you either love or you hate — and it’s Microsoft® Excel®. I love Excel and see it to be one of my best tools when trying to be productive. I’ve

Today marks a month since I first walked through the doors of Indium Corporation. I remember my first day: I was extremely nervous and anxious (going to work in only one sock tells the whole

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, that the total downtime (DT) is 4 x 5% or

What did you want to be when you were five years old? A firefighter? A professional athlete? An astronaut? Those are all very typical careers a five-year-old may consider. What about me? Well, when I

In the current pandemic situation where public parks, grounds, gymnasiums, and swimming pools are shutdown to avoid the spread of the virus, children are now forced to find indoor alternatives for

Anyone who has ever met me knows that I am loud, energetic, and sometimes just a little bit crazy. The running joke among my family and friends has always been that I could probably hold a

Folks, I am re-posting an updatedblog post on Cp and Cpk calculations with Excel®, as I have improved the Excel® spreadsheet. If you would like the new spreadsheet, sendme an email

I have written a few blogs about robotic soldering. I continue to seenew applications as it becomes a more prominent soldering method among electronics

In my last postI talked about the types of solder you could find in wearable medical devices, specifically hearing aids and continuous glucose

Folks, Moore’s Law was developed by Gordon Moore in 1965. It predicted that the number of transistors in integrate circuitswould double approximately every two years. Surprisingly, it has held

What does Durafuse® LT – a low-temperature solder have to do with RF shielding? Well, an RF (Radio Frequency) shield in a cell phone or computer is a piece of conductive metal that blocks

In my last post, I talked about the advancements of medical technologies over the past century that have contributed to improving our quality of life, raising our life expectancy, and preventing

One of the first terms I had to Google when learning about my team’s product line was “rheology,” defined as “the branch of physics dealing with the flow of

Viscosity and tack are two important material properties that define a flux. People often “tack” them together as one, thinking they go hand-in-hand. Typically, this is the case, but not

Selective soldering has been on the rise due to its improved productivity and yields. We have received a lot of customer inquiries about selective soldering products; people want to learn about the

If you are here, you probably already know that Durafuse® LT is a low-temperature solder with some special drop shock properties(they're fantastic, and yes, I may be biased – but it is

Folks, It still surprises me that my most popular blog topic in the 15 years (yikes!) that I have been blogging is how to calculate solder alloy density having the mass fractions and densities of the

Today we’ll be discussing Metal Gel™ with Andrea Olvera-Gonzalez of Liquid Wire. Liquid Wire is a relatively new company developing advanced fluid-phase circuits for flexible and

Indium corporation is now producing tin at very high purity – see here: https://www.indium.com/products/metals/tin/ –and I'd love to explain why we have invested in this technology:

Folks, Soldering enables modern electronics. Without solder, electronics would not exist. Copper melts at 1085°C, yet with solder, we can bond copper to copper at about 235°C or less with

So, high-reliability alloys: what does that mean and why? The "what" is actually pretty easy in this case. Alloys such as Indalloy®292 are used to improve thermal cycling