Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 03 17:43:19 EDT 2008 | vladig
No, I don't work for Suntech (me company name is different but close, it much have been misspelled:-)) and the company isn't exactly a trace lab, However, that wasn't the point why I �jumped in�. Defining a problem as �solderability� is too generic.
Electronics Forum | Sat Jul 05 14:07:33 EDT 2008 | shellydhami
Main diffrences in failure modes for mechanically and thermally induced BGA solder joint fracture
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 10 14:19:51 EDT 2008 | stepheniii
Root cause analysis is simply looking for what caused a problem, then looking for what caused that, and so on, until you reach someone you don't like, or can pass the buck onto. I don't see why Vlad's method is better than tweaking your knobs until y
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 28 16:18:55 EDT 2008 | realchunks
So just send a board to your company and that's root cause analysis? LOL... Ok sure. I guess I'm too much of an engineer and like to get to root cause by eliminating all the question marks and double checking my findings. Part of THAT kind enginee
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 04 07:41:35 EDT 2008 | scottp
I happen to agree with Vlad and I'm not in the same business as him. Randomly turning knobs isn't the way to solve a problem. Do a proper analysis and let the parts tell you what's happening. Seems like a lot of problems people post on this forum
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 04 10:42:29 EDT 2008 | vladig
You are right. That is what process engineers are for. HOWEVER, in many cases they just can not fix a problem because it either in the part, or board or paste and so on. I used ot work for a large company in QA doing lab work for production. In many
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 29 10:23:30 EDT 2008 | vladig
Everyone has been playing a guess game so far :-) but we don't even know what the lead finish is:-) Even old (Sn-Pb finish) days, the ammount of Pb in the plating would be on a single digit level (just to mitigate Sn-whiskers growth), meaning that th
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 10 14:39:30 EDT 2008 | vladig
No, we didn't do the test you mentioned, but did EDS on the joints and didn't see carbon their (which would indicate the presence of any organic-based contaminant). For the customer the issue was closed and passed to the board shop. We did work with
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 04 09:18:10 EDT 2008 | realchunks
In the REAL world most people don't have time to send out problem boards and wait for someone else to do their work. In the real world most of these problems on this forum are caused by someone doing something dumb, or a change was made that the pos
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 15 10:05:50 EDT 2010 | dwonch
Hi all, Long story ahead.... We are having issues with board vendors on some of our higher layer count (thick) boards. Specifically under BGAs with high aspect ratio vias (14:1). We are using ENIG finish and a lead free process. Basically we get t
