Check Out Maggie Benson's Journey
Folks, Over ten years ago, I created the characters Patty and The Professor. The intent was to tell SMT assembly process improvement stories through t...
Folks, Over ten years ago, I created the characters Patty and The Professor. The intent was to tell SMT assembly process improvement stories through t...
Folks, Mary had worked at a small SMT “mom and pop” shop for 12 years. Business was always good and she moved up to CFO of the 60 per...
Folks, soldering enables modern electronics. Without solder, electronics would not exist. Copper melts at 1085°C, yet with solder we can bond copp...
A good solder paste should be able to remain in a paused position (i.e. not being printed) on the stencil, for more than an hour....
There is a big difference between a reflow profile and the oven settings. A cooking analogy can help explain the difference....
This post discusses reflow profiling and the two different profiles that are commonly used in the SMT industry....
Brook Sandy-Smith will chair a panel on Warpage-Induced Defects & Component Warpage Limits at SMTAI 2017 ...
A paper presented at SMTAI 2016 on reducing voids in bottom-terminated components......
This video is for those in the SMT electronics assembly industry that want to minimize the head-in-pillow defect. It discusses the solder paste proper...
Non-Wet Opens (NWO): Understand the cause as well as the necessary flux technology to mitigate them....
In SMT Statistical Process Control, the bottom line is that Cpk is king. Here's the proof....
Folks, It is hard to imagine, but it has been just a little short of 13 years ago that Jim Hall, Phil Zarrow and I approached SMTA’s JoAnn Strom...