Happy Birthday Indium Corporation!
March 13th is the 78th anniversary of the founding of Indium Corporation. Dr. William S. Murray, J. Robert Dyer JR, and Daniel Gray combined to ...
Cost of Ownership vs Profit Potential In Electronics Assembly
Folks, Let’s look in on Patty and Pete and see how they are handling Rex “The Torrent.” Patty wanted to give Pete a little more ...
Soldering Nitinol: The Oxides Are Reduced, Now What?
Reducing the surface oxides of Nitinol is just the first step in getting a good solder joint with this versatile medical assembly material. Next you h...
Patty Presents Her Electronics Assembly Copy Exactly Strategy
Folks, Patty is getting ready for her meeting on “Copy Exactly” with Mike Madigan….... It was after 6:30 PM and Patty was just arri...
Indium Supply Will Satisfy Demand For 75 Years
As reported in Metals Bulletin, Malcolm Harrower of Indium Corporation recently addressed the topic of indium availability and supply as he told the d...
Jasbir Bath and the Solar Engineering and Manufacturing Association (SEMA)
I recently had a chance to catch up with a friend and colleague, Jasbir Bath. If you’ve spent time in the electronics assembly industry you have...
Electroplating on Platinum-Gold Inks
Back in 2005 a customer left a question on our website and it was answered by one of my solder heroes. Here is the Q&A: Question:......
The Right Flux for Soldering to Nitinol
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Is Lowest "Cost of Ownership" the Best Electronics Assembly Manufacturing Metric?
Folks, Let’s look in on Patty and her colleagues…... Sam Watkins, ACME New Hampshire site GM, had just finished meeting with his boss, A...
Effecting And Evaluating Tabbing Ribbon Bond Strength, Reliability, And Performance
Readers have asked how to visually assess a tabbing ribbon interconnection after a bond test. This image is a cell that has been bond tested after sol...