Dr. Ron in China
Folks, One of the big holes in my resume is that I have never been to China. That shortcoming has just been resolved. On June 7 at 10:35PM local ti...
Folks, One of the big holes in my resume is that I have never been to China. That shortcoming has just been resolved. On June 7 at 10:35PM local ti...
Folks, If there is anything that I hope my blog does is to generate useful debate about the happenings in the electronics industry to help us all pros...
Folks, People in the solder and leadfree world still do not understand the prime reason for RoHS: To make recycling easier. A recent article about Swa...
Folks, I’m a little later than I wanted to be on this topic, but I have been preparing for and an now attending and presenting at the IPC/Solde...
Folks, I am giving an updated version of my one day workshop on WEEE/RoHS compliant assembly at The Thayer School of Enginnering at Dartmouth o...
Folks, My Indium colleague Jim Slattery, pointed out an interesting article in Electronic Design. After the article, some people sent in responses. A ...
Haibing writes: Question 1: My questions are centered around RoHS judgments. That is, how I can judge whether a contract manufacturer is RoHS c...
Folks, My friend and colleague Jim Hall of ITM pointed out that the reliability of “mixed” (i.e. lead free and leaded solder and fi...
Folks, In the last 3 weeks I have given “Lead-Free” (Really WEEE/RoHS Compliant Assembly) workshops at Toronto, Salt Lake City, Manchester...
Folks, I read with dismay this week, an advertisement in an electronic assembly trade journal touting a “drop in” solder paste. The solder...
Folks, I am still surprised that so few people are concerned about tin pest in lead-free assembly. Below is an excerpt from a paper I wrote on the top...
Eric writes: Dr. Ron, I have an application that uses a high melting point solder. The solder has more than 85% lead. Is it exempt from RoHS? Eri...