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Quality. We all have a few ideas that come to mind when we look for quality. More than likely, you’re envisioning your favorite brand of jeans, one restaurant where the food always tastes just right, ...

The spacing between adjacent pads is too close to cause bridging, too far away will lead to false soldering. Unreasonable ...

The quickest way to making the entire process ineffective is to fail to look at what is collected or act on what is found. At the start of the safety regulations for construction, OSHA calls for ...

Most manufacturers work hard to produce quality products, but how much of their efforts are devoted to automating their inspection processes? To find out, Automation World conducted a reader survey ...

Inspecting punches and dies can be time-consuming and costly for tablet manufacturers. Advances in technology, however, have greatly improved in-process inspections. The author examines improvements ...

If you are a chip designer working with third-party IP, you have learned that surprises, not always of the good kind, are an inevitable part of the package. And you are not alone – the use and cost ...

As the core technology used in modern electronics manufacturing, surface-mount technology (SMT) assembly density is increasing, the number of pins is increasing, and the pitch is decreasing. In ...

In this first of a three-part series on power quality surveys, we take a look at the role of baseline surveys, the tools ...