New Excel Software Tools to Practice for SMTA Certification #1: Line Balancing
Folks, I recently developed some Excel®-based software to help those who are planning to take the SMTA certification exam to practice. Software to...
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The Only Way to Demonstrate Zero Defects is to Sample All of the Product
Folks, Let’s look in on a graduate student of Ivy University…….. John Foster felt very fortunate. Not only did he get his undergra...
Join Me at SMTA's PanPac 2022 - January 31 to February 3
Folks, I will be presenting three papers at PanPac 2022. They are: 1. Low Melt High Remelt Solder Paste, co-authored with Claire Hotvedt of Indium Cor...
SMTAI: A Big Success
Folks, I just can back from SMTAI in Minneapolis a few weeks ago. To me it was a big success. One of the reasons being that attendance was higher than...
Winners Announced for SMT IQ Test
Folks, A few weeks ago, I posted an SMT quiz on my blog as an opportunity for my readers to test their SMT IQ. We recei...
Test your SMT IQ to See if You Are Ready to Go Back to Your Campus
Folks, Do you know the answers to the questions below?...
Tin Whiskers 101: What are They?
Folks, Tin whiskers are very fine filaments or whiskers of tin that form out of the surface of the tin. See Figure 1. They are the result of stress re...
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...
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...