Technical Library | 2021-07-27 14:54:26.0
Fast forward to current time. Today, our society embraces cleanliness. We expect, demand, and evaluate cleanliness in almost every aspect of our lives. We wash our cars and pets. We maintain high cleanliness standards in our hotels and public spaces. We require cleanliness in our restaurants and hospitals. We sanitize our hands throughout the day to prevent illness. We live in a clean-centric culture. While we drive clean cars, stay in clean hotels and eat clean food, there is one part of our life where we actually abandoned cleanliness. Many of the circuit assemblies that affect almost every aspect of our daily lives are no longer required to be clean. Even though our life experience confirms the link between cleanliness and reliability, happiness, health, and safety, circuit assemblies no longer maintain that "cleanliness is next to Godliness" status. This was not always the case. There was a time when virtually all circuit assemblies were cleaned. The removal of flux and other process-related contamination was commonplace. Cleaning was as normal as soldering. As we bring history into current time, one may relate the fall of Rome and its adoption of personal hygiene and the subsequent decline in human health to the large-scale abandonment of cleanliness expectations of circuit assemblies and the subsequent reliability issues it has created. How did this happen? Has history repeated itself?
Industry News | 2006-05-04 17:10:10.0
Documents to help manufacturers reduce the risk of tin whiskers in Pb-free products
Industry News | 2006-05-04 17:10:12.0
Documents to help manufacturers reduce the risk of tin whiskers in Pb-free products
Industry News | 2006-05-04 17:10:18.0
Documents to help manufacturers reduce the risk of tin whiskers in Pb-free products
Industry News | 2017-11-15 20:16:33.0
Metcal announces that it was awarded a 2017 Global Technology Award in the category of Hand Soldering for its CV-5200 Soldering and Rework Systems with Connection Validation technology. The award was presented to the company during a Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017 ceremony that took place during productronica in Munich, Germany. This marks the company’s fifth award since its introduction at the beginning of 2017.
Industry News | 2017-12-03 18:25:02.0
Digicom Electronics will present ways to mitigate device failure in manufacturing processes, at the BIOMEDevice Show, booth #327, December 6 and 7th, at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, CA. In addition, Digicom will be celebrating its 35th year in the California Bay Area.
Career Center | Corpus Christ, Texas USA | Engineering,Quality Control
This position reports to the Quality Manager and provides support in all areas of fabrication and assembly of passive components exceeding customer requirements and expectations in a fast paced environment. Support is defined as but not limited to th
Industry News | 2016-05-11 19:33:19.0
Pulse Electronics Corporation introduces two unique and performance-enhancing installation options for its PIMinator® line of distributed antenna system (DAS) in-building ceiling-mount antennas. The DASACHOLDER is a sturdy, plastic, above-ceiling antenna holder that is easy to install, is hidden above the ceiling so it doesn't interfere with the aesthetics of the building, and does not induce passive intermodulation (PIM) in in-building installations. The DASACABSORBER attaches to the plastic holder or surrounding structures and helps mitigate the effects of PIM sources by absorbing reflections on cellular radio frequencies in the transmit and receive bands. The result is a confirmed reduction of PIM energy by as much as 40dB.
Industry News | 2011-09-23 21:12:22.0
R&D Technical Services. announces that David Suihkonen, President, will chair a technical session at the upcoming SMTA International Conference & Exhibition
Industry News | 2013-11-05 22:51:20.0
Indium Corporation's Dr. Ning-Cheng Lee, Vice President of Technology, and Dr. Ron Lasky, Senior Technologist, will present at the SMTA/iNEMI Medical Electronics Symposium November 13-14 in Milpitas, California.