Keep Your Solder Paste Cool!
Recently, I have been receiving many inquiries on the topic of keeping solder paste cool during the heat waves this summer. Here are a few tips t...
Recently, I have been receiving many inquiries on the topic of keeping solder paste cool during the heat waves this summer. Here are a few tips t...
Folks, SMTA’s Electronics in Harsh Environments Conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, was a big success. Over 60 people attended from all ov...
Folks, Solder paste is arguably the most highly engineered material in electronic assembly. It has many properties that must be favorable for its good...
Failure analysis, physics of failure, design of experiments, and traceability are essential skills and systems needed to determine a root cause, a sol...
Folks, Over ten years ago, I created the characters Patty and The Professor. The intent was to tell SMT assembly process improvement stories through t...
Folks, Mary had worked at a small SMT “mom and pop” shop for 12 years. Business was always good and she moved up to CFO of the 60 per...
Folks, soldering enables modern electronics. Without solder, electronics would not exist. Copper melts at 1085°C, yet with solder we can bond copp...
A good solder paste should be able to remain in a paused position (i.e. not being printed) on the stencil, for more than an hour....
There is a big difference between a reflow profile and the oven settings. A cooking analogy can help explain the difference....
This post discusses reflow profiling and the two different profiles that are commonly used in the SMT industry....
Brook Sandy-Smith will chair a panel on Warpage-Induced Defects & Component Warpage Limits at SMTAI 2017 ...
A paper presented at SMTAI 2016 on reducing voids in bottom-terminated components......