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Tim Jensen

Product Manager, Advanced Assembly Materials
Indium Corp.

Timothy Jensen is the Product Manager for Indium Corporation's PCB Assembly Materials and has spent over a decade troubleshooting and optimizing SMT process lines. Having worked directly on hundreds of surface mount lines, and building thousands of different products, Tim understands each customer's unique requirements, and tailors Indium's products and services to meet or exceed those needs.

Tim Jensen has submitted responses to the following questions.

Head-In-Pillow Reject Rate
I cannot comment as to whether a particular defect rate is acceptable. That depends so much on the product and ...

Solder Paste Viscosity
Solder paste viscosity is impacted by a number of factors. If all other variables are held constant, the viscosity will ...

Solder Joint Strength
Whensoldering to ENIG, you are bonding to a nickel surface and forming a nickel-tinintermetallic. With HASL, the intermetallic is formed ...

Cause of Unusual Contamination?
Without more details, it is difficult to assess for certain what the issues are. It looks as though solder balls ...

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