A GUIDE TO LEAD-FREE SOLDERING FOR ASSEMBLERS & SUB-CONTRACTORS by Roger Bilham

Lead-Free
A Guide to Lead-Free Soldering
Environment-Friendly Electronics: Lead-Free Technology Lead-Free Soldering

A GUIDE TO LEAD-FREE SOLDERING FOR ASSEMBLERS & SUB-CONTRACTORS
An electronic book
by Roger Bilham

A new electronic book, available now as a PDF by e-mail or on CD, is the new concise source for lead-free manufacturing.

Can you answer the following questions:

How will the European Directive banning the use of lead in electronic and electrical equipment impact your business?
Have you the knowledge and information you need to meet the regulations?
Do you know how to go about it, when you need to be lead-free and when you need to start preparing?
Would you like some simple and straightforward help?

A Guide to Lead-Free Soldering for Assemblers & Contractors will help your company prepare for lead-free ensuring your company is looking forward and ready for the future of electronics manufacturing.

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Topics covered in its 63 pages include:

Lead-free alloy requirements - technical and economic
Problems posed by lead-free solders
Melting temperatures
Oxidation and corrosion
Fillet lifting & cracking
Tombstoning
Tin Whiskers
Tin Pest
Potential and practical lead-free alloys with their properties
High temperature, high lead solder - component internal connections, non-melting columns and balls, module assembly
Patents
Lead-free circuit board finishes
Lead-free hot air solder levelling
Components for lead-free soldering - temperature capabilities and terminations
Fluxes
Mixed lead-free and lead-containing solders & finishes
Lead-free process challenges - cost, temperature, process window, machine issues, flux residues
Defects, inspection and quality
Rework and Repair
Solder variety and standardisation
Use of nitrogen
Lead-free in the reflow process - temperature profile, machine implications
Lead-free in the wave process - composition changes, machine implications
Lead-free vapour phase soldering
Environmental and cost disadvantages of lead-free solders
Logistics of introducing lead-free solders
Sources of further information
Legal position in Europe, USA and Japan

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Profile
Roger Bilham is a metallurgist with many years' of experience developing and making solder products. Combining scientific awareness with commercial realism and management experience. Well grounded in metallurgy (mainly tin, lead and their alloys), with knowledge of chemistry, science in general, health and safety, quality systems, IPR and employment law.

Roger Bilham is also available for consultancy through Dynamix Technology. Please contact us for more details