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 [...]
Wires and wire harnesses have become indispensable in the electronic connection industry. In each and every appliance, no matter how small, we find wires. Wires and the way they are attached with the other parts of the electronic products [...]
Recent developments have once again confronted us with the facts. Entire car factories came to a standstill because there were no parts and the new cars could not be finished due to the lack of a few components. Necessary microchips [...]
We can reflow solder Printed Circuit Boards Assemblies (PCBA’s) by using convection ovens, infrared ovens but also with the aid of vapor-phase ovens. We see them quite often at companies that build prototypes or produce a lot of different [...]
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 name “no clean flux”, “low solids flux”, or “low activated flux” suggests that these flux residues do not need to be removed because they are harmless to the end product. However, this is not quite correct! No-clean flux [...]
Measuring is Knowing. Guessing is Missing. Measure the temperature profiles and other variables of your reflowsoldering, wavesoldering, vapour-phase-soldering- and rework & repair processes. This can be accomplished quite easily with the Smart Profiler SuperM.O.L.E.® Gold 2 from ECD or [...]
Solder mask, sometimes also referred to as solder stop mask or solder resist, is a thin layer of polymer that is usually applied to the copper traces of a printed circuit board (PCB). This layer of lacquer serves to [...]
Nowadays almost all electronic products are soldered fully automatically. This is possible with soldering machines such as: wave soldering machines, reflow ovens, selective soldering, pin-in-paste soldering, vapor phase soldering, laser soldering, soldering robots, etc. In this article we describe the [...]
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, [...]
