The PIEK Training Calendar 2027 is here! Explore our regional and online courses with open enrollment and plan your training or recertification for the coming year.In 2027, we look forward to welcoming you to our training courses in Heerlen in [...]
Do you enjoy technology, sharing your knowledge and being on the road? As a technical trainer at PIEK, you combine teaching with travel. You visit companies at home and abroad, meet professionals from the electronics industry and help them develop [...]
The IPC J-STD-001 is increasingly required in contracts worldwide and as a result the demand for certification is increasing. And this is not just because the defence-industry is running at full power, but also because more and more electronics producing [...]
The PIEK Training Calendar 2026 for open-enrollment courses is now available. Here you will find a complete overview of all our regional and online training courses: https://piektraining.com/en/training-calendar/. In 2026, you can participate in training courses at the following locations: Heerlen [...]
PIEK invites you to participate in a hand soldering workshop. The workshops will be held on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday during the 2023 productronica Fair in Munich. Send an email to workshop@piektraining.com to sign up for an available time slot. [...]
Almit and PIEK I.E.C. have worked together for many years. Almit provides the solder to PIEK that is used during courses. And PIEK has given soldering courses at Almit´s facilities for many years. One highlight of the cooperation so far [...]
For PIEK, the go-to educational centre for the electronic interconnect industry,continual cooperation with customers and other stakeholders is the basis of the corporate philosophy. This also goes for Weller, the expert in anything related to manual soldering. Weller is [...]
If we talk about bare board (or PCB) manufacturing 2 IPC documents are commonly used. The one that is best known throughout the electronics industry is the IPC-A-600. The A in the designation tells us that these are Acceptance Criteria, [...]
Every advantage has its disadvantage In the new/latest revisions of the IPC-WHMA-620D Requirements and Acceptance for Cable and Wire Harness Assemblies and IPC-A-610H Acceptability of Electronic Assemblies the term TARGET and the pictures to this have disappeared. Advantage: The main [...]
Optimise your SMT-Reflow process and save on Rework and Repair Quite often I see operators in companies producing electronics perform repair or rework on printed circuit board assemblies that wouldn’t have been necessary if the reflow soldering process would have [...]
