Industry News | 2013-04-16 15:49:29.0
The SMTA Capital Chapter is pleased to announce its upcoming meeting on May 16, 2013, from 5:30 pm until 8 pm at DfR Solutions’ brand new facility in Beltsville, Maryland.
Industry News | 2013-04-29 15:22:12.0
The SMTA Capital Chapter is pleased to announce its upcoming meeting on May 16, 2013, from 5:30 pm until 8 pm at DfR Solutions’ brand new facility in Beltsville, Maryland.
Industry News | 2011-03-11 14:53:57.0
A new study conducted by IPC — Association Connecting Electronics Industries® predicts that reporting requirements for conflict minerals proposed by the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) would cost the electronic interconnect industry an estimated $279 million in the first year of implementation for due diligence alone, compared to the government’s estimate of $16.5 million.
Industry News | 2015-05-18 21:19:33.0
The SMTA Capital Chapter is pleased to announce it will welcome Denis Barbini, Universal Instruments Corporation, on June 9th to instruct a tutorial on Advanced SMT Technologies at ZESTRON Americas located at 11285 Assett Loop, Manassas, VA 20109. The tutorial is scheduled from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm and includes lunch. The following should attend: quality engineers, failure analysis engineers, reliability engineers, procurement specialists, design engineers, process engineers, project managers. Registration is required for this learning event.
Technical Library | 2019-10-21 09:58:50.0
An ACI Technologies customer inquired regarding printed circuit board(PCB) failures that were becoming increasingly prevalent after the SMT (surface mount technology) manufacturing process. The failures were detected by electrical testing, but were undetermined as to the location and specific devices causing the failures. The failures were suspected to be caused predominately in the BGA (ball grid array) devices located on specific sites on this 16 layer construction. Information that was provided on the nature of the failures (i.e., opens or shorts) included high resistance shorts that were occurring in those specified areas. The surface finish was a eutectic HASL (hot air solder leveling) and the solder paste used was a water soluble Sn/Pb(tin/lead).
Industry News | 2015-05-18 21:29:50.0
The SMTA Capital Chapter is pleased to announce its second meeting of 2015 on May 28th, scheduled from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm at NTS Baltimore formerly Trace Labs, 5 North Park Drive, Hunt Valley, MD 21030. The focus of this chapter meeting will be “Failure Analysis Process for Printed Board Assemblies” presented by John M. Radman, Senior Applications Engineer, NTS Baltimore.
Industry News | 2013-11-01 16:09:44.0
Eric Chason, Ph.D., professor of engineering at Brown University, will present his tin whisker research at the 7th International Tin Whiskers Symposium, November 12–13 in Costa Mesa, Calif., hosted by IPC with academic partner CALCE.
Industry News | 2012-03-26 15:58:58.0
Tin whisker growth, risk mitigation, detection and failure analysis will be the focus of the IPC Tin Whiskers Conference, April 17–19, 2012, in Ft. Worth, Texas.
Industry News | 2022-09-30 11:19:51.0
The Women's Leadership Program (WLP) announces that it will host presentations about technology innovations and career advancements from 1-3:15 p.m. CST on Tuesday, November 1, 2022.
Technical Library | 2019-06-21 10:39:15.0
Recently, an ACI Technologies (ACI) customer called to discuss failures that they had observed with some through-hole capacitor parts. The components were experiencing failures following vibration and accelerated stress testing. Upon receipt of the samples, ACI performed three levels of inspection and Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) testing to investigate the root cause of the failures. These analyses enabled ACI to verify the elements comprising the solder joints and make the following recommendations in order to prevent future occurrences. The first inspection was to investigate the capacitor leads using optical microscopy, and no anomalies were found that could indicate bad parts from the vendor or improper handling prior to assembly. However, vertical fill in the barrel of the plated through-holes was too close to the IPC-A-610 minimum specification of 75% to determine a pass/fail condition, and therefore required further investigation.
