Nothing is as costly to an electronics manufacturer as a field-failure. Due to testing constraints, electronics assembly professionals often have unresolved questions regarding the integrity of post-assembled parts and products. AIM Australia’s Reliability Analysis Program provides analytical services such as solder joint and cleanliness analysis to ensure the integrity and reliability of these parts and assembled products before a failure occurs.

Solder paste defects may be prevented as early as the pre-design stage. The design of the stencil and its apertures is vital to ensure acceptable paste performance. Due to the importance of this parameter, AIM Australia offers a stencil design support and consultation service.

AIM Australia’s technical service professionals are experienced in the area of stencil and aperture design. By maintaining relationships with stencil

AIM Australia understands that today’s electronic assembly process engineers have more pressing issues to concentrate on than spent solder disposal. However, when environmental and liability issues are considered, few issues are more important or potentially troublesome. That is why we designed our Solder Dross Reclamation Program to relieve you of the cost and responsibility of properly disposing spent solder.

The solder in a wave solder machine can become contaminated with other metals dissolved during the soldering process. These impurities can affect the physical characteristics and wetting ability of the solder, and may possibly result in defects such as icycling, bridging, pin-holes, webbing and non-wetting.