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Dr. Ron, I have attended a couple of your conferences and respect your opinion very much. I recently received a letter from a company (let’s call them “ACME”) that manufactures

A very well-written tribute by my friend, Mike Martel, for our friend Ron

I know Raj Srivastava through our mutual membership in the ISBM (highly recommended – do check it out). He is the Roberto C. Goizueta Chair in e-Commerce and Marketing at Emory University,

Let’s welcome Intertronics to the blogosphere! Peter Swanson has joined the very few in this space and has begun offering access to his company’s thought leaders. No surprise here. Peter

Industrial publisher PennWell bestows their PennWell ATD Eddy Award on magazines in their company for various forms of excellence. The Indium Corporation advertises with a few of their publications

I have been asked to speak at a national conference on blogging in the Pharmaceutical Industry. As I reviewed this request, I considered the differences and similarities between blogging for the

FOLLOW-UP: Survey has now ended. Still, make the link to check out the conclusions. Great work! . . . . . . . If you are a corporate blogger and want to contribute to a meaningful survey on the

Folks, There is a recent review of my course, Materials: The Substance of Civilization, in “The Dartmouth Engineer.” This course fulfills a Dartmouth “technology” requirement

Eric writes: Dr. Ron, I have an application that uses a high melting point solder. The solder has more than 85% lead. Is it exempt from RoHS? Eric Dear Eric, To the surprise of many, solders with

Gail writes: Dr. Ron, What does FR-4 mean? Gail Gail, FR means “Flame Retardant” and 4 means fiber glass epoxy. This term is used to describe the most popular material to manufacture

Folks, I was reminded of the Apostle James’s admonition: You life is but a vapor that soon passes James 4:14, upon hearing of the untimely passing of my good friend Ron Daniels. Ron was a true

I am occasionally asked about Indium’s corporate blogging activities. Many of the questions are very general- probably since blogging is so new to many people. That’s exactly how I got

Ron Daniels (1948-2005) passed unexpectedly over the weekend. Known as the former Editor at Circuits Assembly Magazine, a Principal Consultant at ITM Consulting, and as the Editor of Circuitnet

Folks, I will be giving a one day workshop, first in Toronto and then in Boston on Best Practices in Implementing Lead Free Assembly. Many of you send me questions about WEEE/RoHS, I have the latest

Candy writes: Dear Dr. Ron: I work in telecommunication company in Taiwan. Recently we have received many inquiries on WEEE and RoHS from our customers. We are pleased that your informative website

Folks, I am obviously proud that my daughter Jessica Lasky Su defended her PhD thesis this past Friday. She has performed ground breaking work using statistical genetics to analyze attention deficit

Toby Bloomberg is bringing the prestigious AMA Hot Topic Series titled, "Blogs: Marketing Beyond The Website" to Boston's Batterymarch Conference Center on June 24th. Toby got me

Doc Ron, Re: your definition of Producer: If I buy a Dell computer and re-sell it as an integrated, but separable, part of my product/system, are you saying that I am responsible for WEEE compliance

Folks, My friends at Indium put on another of their terrific Quickstart Workshops in Libertyville, IL this past Tuesday and Wednesday. In addition to covering all of the important lead free (Really

Folks, We work with it everyday so we take it for granted. Soldering is a miracle. Soldering enables us to bond mechanically and electrically two pieces of copper (Tm = 1085C) at temperatures below

George asks: Will the venders of subassemblies and accessories of a computer need to register for WEEE compliance? For the case of a desk-top computer, the mouse, key board, and monitor have