To the Windy City and Back Again
This is an account of my trip to Indium’s Chicago facility. If you didn’t get a chance to read my previous post, the link is right he...
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A 10 Sigma Solder Paste Printing Process?
Folks, Let’s check in on Patty as she is about to wrestle with claims of a 10 Sigma Solder Paste Printing Process involving the world’s sm...
"It's 106 miles to Chicago..."
This title is appropriate because I am going to one of Indium Corporation’s solder manufacturing facilities, in Chicago, and because it is the s...
SMT Optimization For Success - Part 6: The Effect of Solder Particle Size on Printing Using Ultrafine Stencil Apertures
SMT Optimization for Success Part 6: Solder Paste Particle Size and Its Effect on Stencil Printing Ultra-fine Solder Paste Deposits This final post...
Soldering to Magnet Wires with 50In50Pb Alloy
The Indium Corporation recently had a customer contact us looking for 50In50Pb solder wire. We manufacture large amounts of this indium-lead mat...
Pin-in-Paste Aperture Calculations Using Solder Preforms with StencilCoach
Folks, As mentioned in the last post, it is a common problem with the PIP (pin-in-paste) process to struggle to get adequate solder volume. If ...
SMTA International 2014 in Retrospect
The plane landed, I got my bags, and I drove home. What a great show. The SMTA International show took place September 28 to October 2 this year in Ro...
Partially Cleaning No-Clean Solder Paste - the Godzilla effect
The other day I was watching the classic film “King Kong vs Godzilla” with my son. At one point, I believe related to some prequel t...
Optimization for Success: Solder Mask Defined vs. Copper Defined Non-Solder Mask Defined) Pads
Part 5: Solder Mask Defined vs. Copper Defined (Non-Solder Mask Defined) Pads Figure 1. In the last discussion we statistically evaluated an...
Pin-in-Paste Aperture Solder Volume Calculations with StencilCoach(TM)
Folks, The pin-in-paste (PIP) process is often the best choice when the PCBA is a mixed SMT and through-hole board with a small number of thr...
SMTAI 2014 - Technical Conference Participation
SMTA International (SMTAI) will be held in Rosemont, Illinois, September 30 through October 1, 2014. I am very excited about the show as I am e...
Stencil Coach™ Calculates Optimal Solder Paste Printing Aperture Parameters: Now Available Online
Folks, A while ago, I developed an Excel-based spreadsheet, StencilCoach™, that calculates optimal stencil aperture parameters for several commo...