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April 12, 2023 | SMTAEstimated reading time: Less than a minute
Mike Konrad, Founder and CEO of Aqueous Technologies has been selected to present a Keynote address at the SMTA Electronics in Harsh Environments Conference to be held in Amsterdam May 23-25 at the Park Plaza Amsterdam Airport, Netherlands.
Mike will be presenting “The Remarkable Return of Post-Reflow Cleaning as a Mainstream Process to Improve Reliability.”
Presentation topics include:
- The age of no-clean fluxes and the effect on circuit assemblies
- Factors influencing the decision to clean circuit assemblies
- Modern residue-related failure mechanisms
- Beyond ECM - Additional reasons for cleaning post-reflow circuit assemblies beyond ECM mitigation
- Harsh environments and other factors influencing reliability
- Cleaning best practices
- New IPC cleanliness testing and process monitoring requirements
- Reflow profiles and the effect on surface insulation resistance (SIR) test
- New cleanliness quantification standards (IPC J-STD001-H)
More information is available at https://smta.org/mpage/harsh.
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