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Going into a new job, you never know what to expect. You worry about how you will perform, if the others will like you, and, most importantly, if you will fit in. Of course, these were my exact

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

Folks, It is natural to expect that Indium Corporation is the premiere supplier of indium metal, solder pastes, preforms, compounds, and chemistry solutions when considering the name of the company.

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

Folks, A few weeks ago, I posted an SMT quiz on myblog. We received178responses, which seemed very good to me. Working with my Indium Corporation colleagues, we came up with the titles below,

Folks, A few weeks ago, I posted an SMT quiz on myblog. We received178responses, which seemed very good to me. Working with my Indium Corporation colleagues, we came up with the titles below,

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

Folks: Do you know how much copper is in SAC305 solder? What about the most typical solder paste powder diameter? These questions, and eight others, are part of my newest SMT IQ test, a free

Folks, In a recent post, I discussed Moore’s Law. I challenged readers to solve for "a" and "b"from the equation a*2^(b*(year-1970)) from the graph in Figure 1. Figure 1.

Folks, I recently read an article about “Lighthouse Factories” which appear to be implementations of Industry 4.0. It is encouraging that engineers and scientists are working on these

Folks, The vast majority of solders used in electronic assembly have, as their base metal, tin. There are some specialty gold solders,like gold-copper or gold-indium, indium based solders, and a

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

Recently, I hosted a webinar for Stencil Printing 101. The InSIDER Series contained two parts.The first is on the basics: Solder paste 101 – the history of stencil printing and what it is,

Folks, SMT assembly is an optimization process. There is no single stencil printing process for all PWB

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