Video: IPC Edge 2.0 series Part 1 – Login and how to buy credits
In part 1 of the series IPC Edge 2.0, Rob Walls will cover the topics log into the IPC Edge 2.0 system and how to purchase credits.
How to remove a solder bridge
In the picture, you see a gull wing component with according to the IPC J-STD-001 and IPC-A-610 a solder bridge. A solder bridge is a defect for all the product classes. Most used method to resolve this defect is with [...]
Guest post: How to Choose and Maintain Your Own Hand Soldering Iron
Last year, Piek showed the basics of hand soldering, and today we're taking things to a more fundamental level. We'll be talking about the right tools you’re going to need and how to choose them, as well as the proper care and [...]
The PIEK quality circle
The electronic interconnect industry is continually innovating, and innovations obviously have a big impact on product quality. Newly created products make the lives of consumers safer, better and more pleasant, regardless of whether they are health-care products, in which technology, [...]
IPC New Release: IPC-WP-024, IPC White Paper on Reliability and Washability of Smart Textile Structures – Readiness for the Market
IPC-WP-024 is a white paper which discusses the issues associated with reliability of smart textiles (e-textiles structures) following multiple washing cycles and emphasizes efforts that industry and research laboratories must undertake to make e-textile structures more robust and able to [...]
IPC New Release: IPC-7095D, Design and Assembly Process Implementation for Ball Grid Arrays (BGAs)
IPC-7095D describes design and assembly implementation for ball grid array (BGA) and fine-pitch BGA (FBGA) technology, focusing on inspection, repair and reliability issues associated with design and assembly of printed boards using these packages. IPC-7095D, Design and Assembly Process Implementation [...]
Do you know how IPC Standards are developed?
The role of IPC and that of experts in the field You might think that some people at the IPC offices create these standards, but actually they are not developed by IPC. If you look into any standard, you will [...]
IPC-A-600 vs IPC-6012
If you question yourself if you should use the IPC-A-600 or the IPC-6012, then the question should be what application you want to use it for. If it would be purely to inspect (either the entire board visually or by [...]
Outsourcing IPC courses: a wise choice?
This is what one company says (details known to PIEK): Being a company that regularly orders from assembly companies in the technical interconnect industry, we often discuss outsourcing with our customers. Should we ourselves have all the expertise to educate [...]
