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Insufficient Plated Hole Fill with Electrolytic Capacitors
We are having problems achieving the minimum hole of 75% on electrolytic capacitors using our wave soldering. What do you suggest?
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Paul J. Koep
Global Product Manager, Alpha

Greg York
Technical Sales Manager, BLT Circuit Services Ltd

Rodney Miller
Capital Equipment Operations Manager, Specialty Coating Systems

Leo Lambert
Vice President, Technical Director, EPTAC Corporation

Peter Biocca
Senior Market Development Engineer, Kester

Fritz Byle
Process Engineer, Astronautics

Subrat Prajapati
Supplier Quality Leader, Ge Healthcare

Lee Levine
President, Consultant, Process Solutions Consulting Inc.

Terry Munson
President/Senior Technical Consultant, Foresite

Gerard O'Brien
President, S T and S Testing and Analysis

Kris Roberson
Manager of Assembly Technology, IPC

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Hon Hai's US Plant Wins Google Server Contract

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co plans to assemble key components for Google servers at its plant in Wisconsin, people familiar with the matter said, finally breathing life into a factory that US President Donald Trump hailed as crucial to bringing manufacturing back to the US. The company has decided to locate production for this new contract at the existing complex rather than make ...
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Can Detroit Catch Tesla?
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Xiaomi's revenue growth spikes after Huawei slide
Xiaomi Corp posted its fastest revenue growth in more than two years after the Chinese smartphone giant grabbed market share from Huawei Technologies Co when ...
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Samsung takes one-third of global TV market in Q3
Samsung Electronics Co. remained the world's leading TV vendor in the third quarter of the year, a report showed Tuesday, as it accounted for one-third of the market ...
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Chris Messina, the innovator behind social media hashtags, coined the term "conversational commerce" in 2015, describing it as "utilizing chat, messaging or other ...
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MIT Project Helps ALS Patients Communicate Using Sensors
Researchers at MIT have developed thin, wearable, piezoelectric sensors that can reliably decode facial strains and predict facial kinematics. The technology is being ...
EE Times

Turning the Body Into a Wire
In 2007, U.S. vice president Dick Cheney ordered his doctors to disable all wireless signals to and from his Internet-connected pacemaker. Cheney later said that the ...
IEEE Spectrum

iPhone 12 Pro Max Teardown
We've torn down the mini iPhone and the two medium iPhones, but we saved the biggest for last: the iPhone 12 Pro Max. If you caught our livestream last week, you ...
iFixIt

Review of Tin-Copper and Tin-Nickel Intermetallic Thickness
What is the desirable intermetallic layer thickness? I have read that 1 - 2.5 micron thickness of tin-copper and a .4 - .8 micron thickness on tin-nickel. The Assembly ...
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Evaluating Thermal and Green Profile in Battery Energy Storage Systems
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Virtual Prototyping For Power Electronics Systems
Every day, power electronics systems play a bigger role in our lives. All-electric and hybrid vehicles are now common on our streets. Electrification of the aerospace ...
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Evaluating Manual and Automated Heat Sink Assembly
This paper illustrates the use of strain gauge testing and Finite Element Analysis as a simulation tool to optimize the heat sink assembly process.
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Automotive PCB makers see promising demand from Asia
Taiwan's automotive PCB makers have experienced a major change in shipment structures so far this year, with the ratio of shipments to Asia rising significantly and ...
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