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Folks, Do you know the answers to the questions below?...
Folks, Do you know the answers to the questions below?...
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...
Folks, Businessweek’s recent article on autonomous vehicles summarized the current state of this fascinating technology. The article discussed W...
Folks, Matching a reflow profile to a solder paste spec is a required skill for an SMT process engineer. In light of this, let’s do an exam...
Folks, Happy Birthday RoHS! A milestone occurred, and it seemed to be missed: RoHS celebrated its 15th birthday on July 1st! For those new to electron...
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...
Folks, I am re-posting an updated blog post on Cp and Cpk calculations with Excel®, as I have improved the Excel® spreadsheet. If you wou...
Folks, It is natural to expect that Indium Corporation is the premiere supplier of indium metal, solder pastes, preforms, compounds, and chemistry sol...
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...
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...
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...
Folks, I recently read an article about “Lighthouse Factories” which appear to be implementations of Industry 4.0. It is encouraging that ...