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█ Electronics Manufacturing Technical Articles

Lean Six Sigma Approach to New Product Development

In this rapidly moving electronics market, fast to market with new products is what separates top performing companies from average companies. A survey conducted by Arthur D. Little revealed that "New-Product Development (NPD) productivity in atop performing company is five times what it is in the average company. The top performer gets five times ...

Credit: MacDermid Inc.

Using Lean Six Sigma to Optimize Critical Inputs on Solder Paste Printing

Solder paste printing is the first step in the surface mount manufacturing process for PCBA assembly. When the solder paste printing process is uncontrolled, defects can be produced, which may not become apparent until the PCBA is downstream. (...)

Credit: Kimball Electronics, Inc.

SMT Process Recommendations Defect Minimization Methods for a No-Clean SMT Process

Key competitive advantages can be obtained through the minimization of process defects and disruptions. In today's electronic manufacturing processes there are many variables to optimize. By gaining an understanding of what the defects are, and where they come from, is a key step in the process towards defect free/six sigma manufacturing. ...

Credit: Kester

Process Control of Ionic Contamination Achieving 6-Sigma Criteria in The Assembly of Electronic Circuits

Ionic contamination testing as a process control tool a newly developed testing protocol based on IPC-TM 650 2.3.25, was established to enable monitoring of ionic contamination within series production. The testing procedure was successfully implemented within the production of high reliability, safety critical electronic circuits, involving multiple production sites ...

Credit: Robert Bosch LLC Automotive Electronics Division

DPBO - A New Control Chart For Electronics Assembly

As six sigma (6σ) and better processes are demanded for higher yields and as organizations move from measuring defects in terms of parts-per-million (ppm) towards parts-per-billion (ppb), the resolution of extant control charts is becoming insufficient to monitor process quality. This work describes the development of a new statistical process control (SPC) chart that ...

Credit: Binghamton University

Jetting Strategies for mBGAs a question of give and take...

The demands on volume delivery and positioning accuracy for solder paste deposits are increasing as the size and complexity of circuits continue to develop in the electronics industry. According to the iNEMI 2013 placement accuracy for these kinds of components will reach 6 sigma placement accuracy in X and Y of 30 um by 2023.

Credit: Mycronic AB

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█ Printed Circuit Board Assembly & PCB Design Forum

DEK Horizon 03i Alignment Indexing -- Has anyone ever seen one of these index the aligment between prints? The 1st print is good, 2nd is slightly off, 3rd print is further off, 4 print is good. This cycle repeats constantly. The tech from ASM/DEK has never seen this and does not know how to correct it.

Need Fischerscope winftm tutorial/help -- I looked at a Fischerscope XDVM for more than 5 minutes and now I'm the subject matter expert at work. Previous winftm programmer was fired; and no one here knows how to set it up. I looked online for tutorials and put together some ideas from previously made defMa and calibration standards. We do have the Super user add-on to make our own. What I want to do is make a base standard and defMA for analyzing solder samples. We have Alpha Vaculoy wave solder bars of 63/37 tin lead, with the specs for a maximum amount of impurities. So, it should just be scanning a clean bar of new solder, then comparing it to a sample from a pot. The differences would be the contaminants and element ratio, right? The manual and tutorials I found only show 1 or 2 elements for comparison and just thickness layers, not really bulk material measurement. This seems like a simple task, but I don't know what I'm doing.

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█ SMT, PCB Electronics Assembly Manufacturing Industry News

Semi-Kinetics Adds 2nd Pemtron X-Ray Inspection and Component Counting Capabilities as Part of California Expansion Semi-Kinetics, a leading provider of electronic manufacturing services, is proud to announce the procurement and implementation of a second cutting-edge Pemtron X-ray inspection and automated .... Semi-Kinetics
Nordson Test & Inspection Launches Advanced Inspection and Metrology Solutions at Productronica & SEMICON Europa 2025 Nordson TEST & INSPECTION today announced plans to exhibit with distributor partners at Productronica and SEMICON Europa, scheduled to take place November 18 to 21 at the Messe Munchen in Munich, Germany. .... Nordson Corporation
JAVAD EMS Honors Longtime Employees for Milestone Anniversaries JAVAD EMS (JEMS), a leading global EMS company that provides low to medium volume, high-mix applications, recently celebrated a special group of employees who reached milestone anniversaries of 5, 10, and 15 years with the company.... Javad EMS
New Event Announced: AI Meets Electronics Manufacturing Symposium The SMTA is pleased to announce a new technical event organized for the electronics manufacturing industry. The AI Meets Electronics Manufacturing Symposium will be held November 6, 2025 in Avondale, Arizona, ... Surface Mount Technology Association (SMTA)

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█ Electronics Manufacturing & Assembly Events Calendar

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New Event Announced: AI Meets Electronics Manufacturing Symposium

The SMTA is pleased to announce a new technical event organized for the electronics manufacturing industry. The AI Meets Electronics Manufacturing Symposium will be held November 6, 2025 in Avondale, Arizona, at the Avondale Conference Center....

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Wiring the World Together: IPC and WHMA Unveil Global Wire Harness Competitions and Championship

IPC, in collaboration with the Wiring Harness Manufacturer's Association (WHMA), has organized the first-ever World Wire Harness Competitions and Championship. Regional country competitions will take place between March and December 2025 and final championship will be held at IPC's Integrated Electronics Manufacturing & Interconnections (IEMI) event scheduled January 29 to 30, 2026, in Bangalore, India. The global initiative promotes industry's best practices and strengthens the skilled workforce behind cable and wire harness assembly....

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