Conclusion of In Electronics Manufacturing, Does Cpk =1 Yield 66,800 defects per million?
Patty, Rob and Pete were quite sure they understood the confusion in the Cpk = 1 issue, but wanted to make sure they discussed it with the Professor.&...
Solder Reliability
In Electronics Manufacturing, Does Cpk =1 Yield 66,800 defects per million?
Folks, Patty was walking past the Professor’s office on her way to see Pete and Rob and she thought she would stop in. “Professor, I got t...
Solder Joint Failure Implicated in AirAsia Flight 8501 Crash
Solder Joint Failure Implicated in AirAsia Flight 8501 Crash: Patty was heading down to the Professor’s office to discuss the Reliability Engine...
Use the Coffin-Manson Equation to Calculate Number of Thermal Cycles
Patty, Rob, and Pete were headed to their regular monthly meeting where they, along with the Professor, discussed a book they were all reading....
4B or not 4B?... The Difference in the IPC Test Requirements for "no-clean" L0 Type Soldering Fluxes
Overall we believe that while the J-STD-004B standard may not be perfect and subject to future further evolution, it does provide the best available m...
Conclusion to The Rule of 3/N for Estimating Field Failure Rates in Electronics Assembly
Folks, Let’s see how Patty, Rob and Pete are doing helping Mike Madigan establish his “Zero Defects” program….. “So let...
The Rule of 3/N for Estimating Field Failure Rates
Folks, It looks like Patty is a bit troubled....... When she was younger, Patty was always annoyed by cranky old people, and now she was worryin...
Achieving Uniform Solder Bondline Control Between Substrate and Baseplate in IGBTs: Part I
The next few posts come to us from my colleagues Karthik Vijay, Indium Corporation’s Technical Manager for Europe and Liam Mills of TT Electroni...
Changing the Composition of Your Tin-Lead Solder Pot
In today’s electronics manufacturing industry, many companies are using lead-free solder alloys. However, there are a few sectors in the industr...
Lead Free 2015
Folks, It is hard to believe that in July we will celebrate the 9th anniversary of the advent of RoHS. So the timing seemed right when I was recently ...
Reflow Profiling, Electrical Reliability, No-Clean Solder Paste Flux Residues
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 ...
Design Solutions for Engineered Solders
Today’s technology simplifies the translation of an idea into a design. A drawing can be dimensioned in an instant. Thermal models and str...