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Insufficient Barrel Fill on Through-hole Components
We are having issues with barrel fill. We are using a lead free, no-clean flux process. The issues is with through hole connectors with lead retention ...
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Tim O'Neill
Technical Marketing Manager, AIM

Leo Lambert
Vice President, Technical Director, EPTAC Corporation

Bill Coleman
Vice President Technology, Photo Stencil

Kishan Sarjoo
Process Engineering Manager - Electronics, Altech UEC, South Africa

Mahesh V Draksharapu
Independent Consultant,

Tony Lentz
Field Applications, FCT Assembly

Brien Bush
Manufacturing Applications Specialist, Cirtronics Corp.

Kay Parker
Technical Support Engineer, Indium Corporation

Michael Kaminsky
Sr Fiald Applications Support Engineer, Kester Inc.

Fritz Byle
Process Engineer, Astronautics

Mark Northrup
VP of Advanced Technical Operations, IEC Electronics

Edithel Marietti
Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Northrop Grumman

Mitch Holtzer
Director of Reclaim Business, Alpha Assembly Solutions

Tom Schardt
Industrial Engineer, Red Lion Controls, Inc.

Package-on-Package Rework

Toe Fillet Requirements on Gull Wing Components

Gold Plating and Embrittlement

Soldering Multilayer Ceramic Chip Capacitors

Mixing Different SAC305 Solders

Dross Particles Sticking to PCBs

Cleaning with Sodium Bicarbonate

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Rehm Thermal Systems

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Webinar: What Every Design Engineer Should Know About SMT Manufacturing
ITM Consulting

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InSIDER Series: Ultrafine Solder Paste Dispensing for Heterogeneous Integration
Indium Corporation

Jan 28, 2021
Webinar: Risk, Reliability & Revenue: The Business Case for Protective Nanocoatings
HZO Inc.

Feb 4, 2021
FREE Webinar - Board Testing using Boundary Scan, hands-on XJTAG workshop - UK, Ireland
XJTAG

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What Year Was It?

Queen Victoria Dies

The death of Queen Victoria ends an era in which most of her British subjects know no other monarch. Her reign, the longest in British history, saw the growth of an empire on which the sun never set.
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January 22, 2021

Designing Customized 'Brains' for Robots

Contemporary robots can move quickly. "The motors are fast, and they're powerful," says Sabrina Neuman. Yet in complex situations, like interactions with people, robots often don't move quickly. "The hang up is what's going on in the robot's head," she adds. Perceiving stimuli and calculating a response takes a "boatload of computation," which limits reaction time, says Neuman, who recently ...
MIT News

VIEWPOINT 2021: Mr. Daisuke Yoshihara, General Sales Manager, Yamaha Motor Europe IM Business

A Challenging Year Has Driven Inspiring Solutions for the Future. Of course, everyone is hoping that 2021 will be better than 2020. The pandemic has brought many challenges and we have all been forced to adapt to protect our health and our livelihoods. When the crisis reached Europe, with factories stopped ...
Yamaha Motor Europe IM Business

VIEWPOINT 2021: Justin Cody Worden, Director of Business Development, Austin American Technology

2020 was the year of unknown trends that made even the largest and most profitable companies nervous day after day. I joined Austin American Technology (AAT) as their Director of Business Development to oversee the sales and marketing efforts midway through the year. The timing of my hire came as a surprise to many within ...
Austin American Technology

Hon Hai's new AI algorithm cuts inspection manpower at plants
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. announced that it has launched a new unsupervised learning Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithm that effectively cuts inspection ...
Focus Taiwan

Technical Papers

Using True3D Inspection Data as a Process Control Tool in a Smart Factory

Selective Soldering Fine Pitch Components on High Thermal Mass Assembly

An Engineer's Guide to Testing and Evaluating The Performance of Desiccant Bags

High-Performance, Light and Moisture Dual-Curable Encapsulant

Smaller Components and Increasing Placement Density

The Value of Accurate Inspection

First Principles of Solder Reflow

Stencil Printing 008004/0201 Aperture Components

Streamline & Improve Conformal Coating Results with Inline Inspection

Extending the Golden Hour in the SMT Assembly Line

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FAA Files Reveal a Surprising Threat to Airline Safety: the U.S. Military's GPS Tests
Early one morning last May, a commercial airliner was approaching El Paso International Airport, in West Texas, when a warning popped up in the cockpit: "GPS Position ...
IEEE Spectrum

CES 2021: FEMA's Emergency Alert System Coming to a Game or Gadget Near You?
It was easy for exhibitors to get lost in the virtual shuffle at CES 2021, where the digital exhibit hall simply displayed the logos of the 1900-plus exhibitors. To get any ...
IEEE Spectrum

It's Time to Look at FD-SOI (Again)
The emergence of FD-SOI, (fully depleted silicon-on-insulator) and its subsequent maturity over the years, has made it one of the seminal process advancements for ...
EE Times

Finding the Cause of Cold Solder Joints
We have continual problem with our wave soldering system, especially cold solder joints. Could the cold solder joints be caused by using a selective soldering frame? ...
Circuit Insight - Board Talk

The Future Is Taking Shape Before Our Eyes
The US regulator for automotive safety, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), has just announced a change in the rules covering driving ...
Forbes

Why Qualcomm Is Set for Auto DMS Dominance
CES 2021 revealed in-cabin AI as the hottest trend in automotive. This has profound implications for the driver monitoring system (DMS) market, potentially setting ...
EE Times

Shake Up Coming For Auto industry
"Apple and Foxconn will change the automotive world," said Penn, "the auto industry is re-structuring - it's easier for Apple and Tesla to get into EVs than it is for the ...
Electronics Weekly.com

Copper Electrodeposition By Hydrogen Evolution Assisted Electroplacing
A technique called hydrogen evolution assisted electroplating, has shown enhancement to the deposition rate of copper compared to galvanostatic conventional electroplating ...
Circuit Insight - Production Floor

Beyond Bitcoin: China's Surveillance Cash
Of all the technological revolutions we'll live through in this next decade, none will be more fundamental or pervasive than the transition to digital cash. Money touches ...
IEEE Spectrum

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