Treating Modern Components Like Vacuum Tubes Destroys Reliability
Electronics manufacturing rises and falls on the soldering process. Unlike the fairly straightforward steps like component placement, soldering remains mired in myths and "art." Vast amounts of labor and management time are spent on the consequences of soldering — inspection, rework, test and customer issues — that can be avoided with a scientific approach to the soldering process.
Many industry practices and standards were created 50 years ago for attaching wires to vacuum tube sockets.
Applied to modern components, the reliability consequences are disastrous. (Read why here.)The majority of component failures during test and in the field are caused by rework, usually of connections that were reliable before the rework.
Science of Soldering© is the world's only soldering course that teaches a foolproof scientific technique for preventing heat damage during hand soldering. EMS developed the technique and it is only available from EMS.
Science of Soldering© for Engineers
Making Complex Soldering Problems Simple
Process engineers are expected to master soldering — but where do they learn the science? Not in university; soldering is not taught in engineering programs. There has never been another way for engineers to learn the soldering process in a unified, easy to understand, scientific manner. So engineers have been forced to turn to suppliers and trade shows. But the supplier's goal is to make sales of tools or consumables, not to provide robust education, while trade show seminars focus on one or two of the many topics that make up soldering and do so without context.
How can the engineer work effectively when there is so little help available? The answer is Science of Soldering© for Engineers. Science of Soldering© for Engineers provides the essential unified, easy to understand, scientific package. And, as with all Science of Soldering©, it provides the knowledge in an extremely efficient manner so students learn much more in much less time.
Two Days to Learn Everything
In less than two days at your office, your engineers will learn everything they need to know about how to set up and manage all forms of trouble–free soldering processes. How is it possible to accomplish so much in such a short time? Some of the keys are:
- We build from the ground up, starting with the fundamentals — such as the all–important wetting forces — that determine the outcomes of every type of soldering from hand to machine. Armed with that knowledge, it is easy to learn the special features of each type of machine.
- Our unique soldering "recipe" that puts the critical knowledge in a logical step–by–step template
- Our exclusive out–of–control hands–on process problem solved by teamwork and application of the soldering recipe
- Freedom from jargon
- EMS Reliability Criteria includes the most likely causes of each defect
- Much more than theory — the workshop culminates in shop floor application of the lessons to process improvements
- EMS educators have decades of hands–on experience solving every imaginable soldering issue
We specialize in making engineers' lives easier and productive.
Please go here for the curriculum. The content is customizable. We typically modify the final curriculum to address the client's specific needs and interests.
To learn more about Science of Soldering©, please use this form or call (727)866–6502, extension 21.
We Specialize in Automotive, Aerospace, Defense, Telecom and Medical Electronics
In recent years, consumer electronics companies have begun producing automotive electronics. That does not always work out well, either for the supplier or for the automaker.
Automotive electronics — along with telecom, aerospace and medical electronics — have much higher standards than those for most other markets. The standards are higher because the consequences of failures are vastly greater.
We have a long record of increasing reliability (and reducing costs) of automotive, defense, aerospace, telecom, and medical electronics.
For more information about how Science of Soldering© can make your high rel products truly high rel at lower cost, please use this form or call 727–866-6502 (extension 21) for more information.