In Soldering, Understanding the Cause and Cure for NWO (Non-Wet Opens)
Non-Wet Opens (NWO): Understand the cause as well as the necessary flux technology to mitigate them....
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....
Three IPC test methods are used to guarantee to customers that they are getting the same material (within agreed tolerances). However o...
This video is for people weighing the use of no clean versus water-soluble solder paste formulation. It discusses examples of the need for cleaning, i...
This video is for people weighing the use of no clean versus water-soluble solder paste formulation. It discusses examples of the need for cleaning, i...
Phil Zarrow: Ron, we’ve discussed that performance of materials can affect productivity, and hence profitability. Can you give us an example? ...
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...
The Indium Corporation has many summer interns this year. The technical support group was fortunate enough to hire Sarah Bjornland (pictured). She is ...
Folks, The Wet Gold Technique is a simple way to estimate the percentage of gold in a gold alloy. This technique indirectly measures the density...
Finally – the fun part! After all of your work specifying the right materials and applying them, at last we can test all of the assumptions we h...
My last post talked about the pros and cons of CalRod® style preheaters. This post will be devoted to hot air style preheaters. It makes sense t...
It sounds bad for me to say this, but I have a lot of SMT magazines cross my desk and, honestly, the solder paste articles rarely draw my interest. I ...