China Publishes RoHS List
Folks, I’m a little later than I wanted to be on this topic, but I have been preparing for and an now attending and presenting at the IPC/Solde...
Folks, I’m a little later than I wanted to be on this topic, but I have been preparing for and an now attending and presenting at the IPC/Solde...
Folks, I am giving an updated version of my one day workshop on WEEE/RoHS compliant assembly at The Thayer School of Enginnering at Dartmouth o...
Folks, My Indium colleague Jim Slattery, pointed out an interesting article in Electronic Design. After the article, some people sent in responses. A ...
Haibing writes: Question 1: My questions are centered around RoHS judgments. That is, how I can judge whether a contract manufacturer is RoHS c...
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 i...
Folks, My friend and colleague Jim Hall of ITM pointed out that the reliability of “mixed” (i.e. lead free and leaded solder and fi...
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 histor...
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...
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 lin...
Folks, In the last 3 weeks I have given “Lead-Free” (Really WEEE/RoHS Compliant Assembly) workshops at Toronto, Salt Lake City, Manchester...
Folks, I read with dismay this week, an advertisement in an electronic assembly trade journal touting a “drop in” solder paste. The solder...
Folks, I am still surprised that so few people are concerned about tin pest in lead-free assembly. Below is an excerpt from a paper I wrote on the top...