Being involved in the electronics assembly industry for more than 23 years, specifically in the field of defluxing and cleanliness testing, I have seen my share of environmental regulations. Long before the debate over lead-free alloys, there was t...

Electronic assembly cleaning processes are becoming increasingly more complex because of global environmental mandates and customer driven product performance requirements. Manufacturing strategies today require process equivalence. That is to say, i...

The stencil cleaner can be one of the most versatile tools on the manufacturing floor. It can be used to clean electronic modules in various stages of the manufacturing process. In fact, an automated stencil cleaner can clean just about anything you ...

In recent years, various studies have been issued on cleaning under low standoff components; most however, with incomplete information. It is essential to revisit and describe the latest challenges in the market, identifying obvious gaps in available...

The dispensing industry within electronics manufacturing represents a very diverse marketplace indeed; many different materials can be applied in many different ways. One high-growth area in this market is underfill, driven by the explosive demand ...

Stencil printing equipment has traditionally been used in the surface mount assembly industry for solder paste printing. In recent years the flexibility of the tool has been exploited for a wide range of materials and processes to aid semiconductor ...

Orchid Technologies Designs Laboratory Instrument Controller for their client. The coordination and integration of multiple, unrelated electronics is a daunting task. Multiple electrical interfaces together with connectivity, isolation, noise imm...

Microwave baseband modulation by digital means permits precise control of harmonic energy content in the transmitted signal. Orchid Technologies was selected to perform the design of a dual channel giga-sample converter for use in satellite communica...

Orchid Technologies' second generation heart pump monitor is designed for critical care of artificial heart pump recipients. Real-time data capture, analysis, and display of multi-channel ECG patient data is required to provide doctors with critical...

Power supply design for avionics has become an area of increased activity over the past few years. New to the market are industrial quality, high current, lithium based battery systems. Available from a wide variety of vendors, these batteries ar...