We have created two new online webinars for our worldwide customers. All you need to do is book a webinar online through our website for your engineering team. Your book and pay once for your team on multiple sites. You can then invite any of your company engineers at different sites to join in from their factory or home office. Its that simple to spread information world wide and minimum cost
This is one of our most recent services to industry and you are only limited to 100 people attending. If 100 members of your global team participate that works out less than £5 pounds, $6 dollars or 6 Euro per engineer
Tombstoning Components During Reflow – Causes & Cures
Solder Preform World – Not New Technology but Interesting Option 
Solder Preform World – Not New Technology but Interesting Option
Solder preforms are normally solid solder shapes specifically designed to make one or multiple solder joints in one reflow operation. Solder preforms can be coated, flux laminated between layers of different alloy or simply compressed cored solder wire. In the past some assembly operations have simply employed cored wire wrapped around a screwdriver cut to form rings
Preforms provide a defined volume of solder to form a reliable joint with the assembly process automated if volumes require. Through hole paste reflow can benefit using solder bricks to increase joint volume and decrease flux residues. Some placement machine suppliers offer cut and form feeders, so solder wire is used, reducing the cost of precision preforms
Back in the day the presenter used preforms with vapour phase for feed through capacitors, wire wrap back planes, heat shields and cable forms. Welcome to the interesting world of solder preforms
Our first webinar includes:
Soldering Applications
Solder alloys
Preform types
Fluxing options
Preform packaging
Soldering and temperature profiling
Reducing void formation
Traditional soldering, wire connections, die mounting & more
Inspection and process defects
Presented by Bob Willis
The webinar will run between 60-90min with a question and answer session. If you have a specific problem or failure, then please send your photos and examples in advance of the webinar. The webinars are limited to 100 delegates/companies. A copy of each of the slides presented will be provided after the webinar in pdf
In preparation for the event and to ensure you are equipped to get the maximum benefit from our event, please read this simple Webinar Guideline
Tombstoning Components during Reflow – Causes & Cures
Since the introduction of surface mount technology (SMT) components to the industry in 1980’s engineers have experience unplanned lifting of parts. These defects are referred to as tomstoning, drawbridge, Manhattan skyline, crocodiles, or billboards the list is endless. Lifting of parts became common during the transition of manufacturing from ceramic hybrids to organic laminate PCB’s
Tombstoning can be seen directly after reflowing side one or two. The issue is experienced in convection, nitrogen, vapor phase and laser soldering. Some say it has increased with component becoming smaller moving from 0402 to 01005 chips. Through careful review and modification of process parameters some defects can be reduced, but not all
Lifting of components may not be detected on existing older AOI systems, but new advanced vision should be able to detect very subtle lifting leading to opens. With Bobs many video experiments delegates will be able to watch this lifting taking place and be able to see some of the causes demonstrated live
Topics covered:
Design rules for passive components
Pad sizes – solder mask – surface finish
Test boards and process trials
Klein Wassink/Philips calculations
Solder paste type & volume control
Reflow soldering
Convection/nitrogen, vapor phase & laser soldering
Inspection & defect analysis
Simple rework of lifted parts
Presented by Bob Willis
