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Folks: A reader writes: Dr. Ron I attended your seminars last year at the SMTAI Technical Conference in Chicago and Boston and discussed with you LF implementation and manufacturing. I must say that

"An astonishing 84% of B2B marketing campaigns actually result in a fall in market share and brand equity." I read this quote in a newsletter from MarketingProfs.com . By the way, I highly

I always enjoy a challenge. That's why I jumped at the chance to talk about the custom of Chinese New Year with a local 3rd grade class. Wow! This was an awesome

Folks, My article in Scientific American on the "Twin Paradox" has hit the newstands. It is a special issue, so it does not automatically come to subscribers. My intent was to explain this

Folks, My friend and colleague Jim Hall of ITM pointed out that the reliability of "mixed" (i.e. lead free and leaded solder and finishes) technology was a hot topic at APEX last week. The

Annika writes: Dear Dr. Ron, I'm a chemist and a PhD student working in the field of atmospheric corrosion of lead and lead-tin alloys in historical organ pipes in Europe. I read your article on

You’ll be hearing from Team Indium as we report from the floor of APEX – one of our largest exhibitions – this

The USA Today ran an interesting article the other day titled, "SUPER DON'TS" Here it is in it's brief entirety: 1) Don't run a retread. The game is the one place advertisers

Folks, If one really thinks about it, management of the entire WEEE/RoHS process(and China RoHS and other stuff to come)is a daunting task. There are many records to keep and tasks to perform.

Recently Anita and I traveled to the North American headquarters of CIBA Specialty Chemicals Corporation to present at their lunch hour Marketing seminar series. Indium's Marcom

Folks, As the 1 July 2006 date looms closer, some of us will need analysis to support RoHS compliance or even expose counterfeit components. Tom Perrett and his colleagues at Tin Technology offer

Folks, My colleagues Kathy Hickey and Amish Parashar of NeoVention and I just launched a lead free online workshop The workshop is managed by SMT Plus. Check it out. Cheers,

Folks, Tom Perrett of Tin Technology pointed out this recent article by Design Chain Associates. It is "must" reading. The China RoHS law will require testing of the units and applies to

Folks, I think many of us still "groan" when we think of WEEE/RoHS. However, as I have mentioned before, whenever there are radical changes, oppotunites abound. Consider what Frank writes:

Folks, Faithful reader Don Ballard asks: "Who Holds the World Record in Pulling Back a Longbow? Tell us about him. For more than 50 years the accepted world record was held by Howard Hill at a

Folks, Some time ago I listed my interest in English Longbows. The first bow I got early in 2005, took between 80 and 100 pounds to draw (depending on the draw length). My goal is to be able to pull

Folks, One of the big issues in RoHS exemptions is that of "Category 8 and 9." ERA Technology has been retained by the EU to investigate bringing these categories under the RoHS directive.

Folks, As the clock ticks away, many people are becoming overwhelmed by WEEE and RoHS tasks. For technologists like myself, many of the RoHS tasks are perhaps challengeing, but at least

Folks, Several weeks ago I had a blog entry asking whether or not Microsoft's new Xbox 360 was RoHS compliant. Angela pointed me to a link where Xbox lead mechanical engineer Jeff Reents is

Folks, My colleague Mike Fenner pointed out a website that compares the China and EU RoHS laws. As vague as many complain that the EU’s RoHS and WEEE directives are, China RoHS may be more so.

Folks, Some time ago I mentioned that I had published an article for Scientific American's website on The Twin Paradox. I have just been informed that they will be publishing an edited version of