Does Lead-Free Assembly Use a Lot More Electricity and High Melt Lead-Free Solders?
Folks, An obvious disadvantage of lead-free assembly is that the oven must be hotter and therefore will use more electricity. But is the extra ...
Folks, An obvious disadvantage of lead-free assembly is that the oven must be hotter and therefore will use more electricity. But is the extra ...
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...
Most SMT fluxes and solder pastes are either classified as RO or OR. Every once in a while one will see an occasional RE flux. People typically recogn...
I just can’t get enough of a good thing. My last post mentioned donuts – one of my favorite treats. Allow me to continue reveling in...
The beginning of 2014 brought an interesting opportunity for me, the availability of a position as a Manufacturing Engineer at Indium Corporation (at ...
Folks, Let’s see how Patty is doing after teaching her first class at Ivy U… Patty arrived at home after teaching her first class at Ivy ...
The ball-attach process can be considered a trivial step when creating an FCBGA or similar package, but the final soldering step can be rather complex...
Over the last few years, miniaturization, and the drive for increased yields and lower defect rates, have forced the electronics manufacturing industr...
While in South East Asia last summer, Indium’s technical team and I had a chance to discuss flip-chip dipping processes with a major equipment v...
Folks, Pity the solder scientists of the late 1970s and early 1980s. SMT was an emerging technology and the world wanted to buy solder paste.&nb...
Folks, My recent post on tin whiskers sparked the memory of tin pest in my mind. I have to admit, that with all of the legitimate reliability co...