Tombstoning: The Death of a PCBA
Tombstoning (also known as the Manhattan effect, drawbridge effect, or Stonehenge effect) is described (in the simplest, and most common, sense) as oc...
Tombstoning (also known as the Manhattan effect, drawbridge effect, or Stonehenge effect) is described (in the simplest, and most common, sense) as oc...
Folks, Let’s look in on Patty…... Patty was just finishing a report on work that she and Pete had performed with a team of her ACME colle...
Folks, In addition to electronics assembly productivity, solder paste and solder preform applications, and other electronics assembly concerns, many o...
Solder paste is comprised of powdered solder alloy suspended in a flux vehicle. There is a group of flux ingredients that is generically identified as...
Following on from our discussions of last time... As you will recall from the previous post on this topic, My friend and colleague Chris Nash and I w...
My friend and colleague Chris Nash and I were recently discussing some puzzling results for low dip height found during testing of package-on-pac...
Anyone who has used wave soldering to assemble PCBs knows about that chunky layer of metal that collects on the smooth surface of the molten solder.&n...
Folks, Rob heads to Guadalajara to solve the QFN voiding problem...... As Rob sat on the airplane, he was excited to go to GDL (Guadalajara, Mexi...
Folks, Let’s look in on Rob: Rob looked at the new photo of Patty and their twin sons Peter and Michael. What a handful those two 18 month-...
Hi there! I am excited, this is my first blog post -ever. I am excited that it is a technical blog of Indium Corporation. My story is very ...
Solder powder particle size and shape impacts the functionality of solder paste in many ways: printing/dispensing/dipping; solderballing; graping; voi...