Full Autonomous Vehicles Still Decades Away?
Folks, Businessweek’s recent article on autonomous vehicles summarized the current state of this fascinating technology. The article discussed W...
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Calculating Total Downtime
Folks, Downtime calculations can be a bit confusing. Most people would assume that if a line has 4 machines and they are each down for 5% of the time...
The 20 Questions Game
Do we really understand the things that we do at our work places if we are unable to explain them in simple terms to our own child? What if we ca...
Answers to SMT Quiz
A few weeks ago, I posted an SMT quiz on my blog. We received 178 responses, which seemed very good to me. Working with my Indium Corpo...
Take the SMT Quiz and Perhaps Win a Prize
Folks: Do you know how much copper is in SAC305 solder? What about the most typical solder paste powder diameter? These questions, and eight others, a...
Solution to Moore's Law
Folks, In a recent post, I discussed Moore’s Law. I challenged readers to solve for "a" and "b", from the equation a*2^(b*(y...
Still Much Hype Around AI and Industry 4.0
Folks, I recently read an article about “Lighthouse Factories” which appear to be implementations of Industry 4.0. It is encouraging that ...
Checking Moore’s Law
Folks, Moore’s Law was developed by Gordon Moore in 1965. It predicted that the number of transistors in integrate circuits would double approxi...
Is Quantum Computing Emerging to Solve Practical Problems?
Folks, I read with interest Zohair Mehkri’s SMTAI 2020 paper entitled How Quantum Computing (QC) will Revolutionize Electronics Manufacturing. I...
The Rule of 72
The Rule of 72 Four years ago, the big boss, 6'6" tall, 350 pound Mac Savage, said that the goal for the sales of a new product was at least...
AI and Autonomous Vehicle Challenges: Common Sense, Flexibility, Dexterity, and Situational Awareness
Folks, I have been following advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous vehicles (AV) for some time now. At first, I was a cautious, then...