What happens when an electronic contract manufacturer follows their customer’s instructions to the detriment of the product? Product failures, blame, drama, and a really big lawsuit.
Mike Konrad reviews the trials and tribulations of a contract manufacturer and their customer. Assembly residue-related failures (ECM) contributed to product failures, product recalls, and, ultimately, a multi-million-dollar lawsuit.
Misguided “best practice” techniques only made matters worse. This podcast will discuss what factors contributed to the “perfect storm” of product failures. Factors that go as far back to original product designs, printed circuit board fabrication, storage and handling, assembly, testing, and coating. While mistakes were made all along the way, product failures could have been avoided with a few simple process changes, adding mere pennies to the cost of each assembly while saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in litigation.
RM 118: Making ’Big Data’ Useful with Intraratio’s Ryan Gamble
RM 117: When Residues Cause Circuit Assemblies to Fail
RM 116: Supply Chain Musings with Mark Godwin of Ventec
PCB Chat 113: David Schild of the Printed Circuit Board Association of America
PCB Chat 112: Vivek Bansal on VVDN’s Vertical Integration Model
PCB Chat 111: Metallic Resources on Reclaiming Electronics Solder
RM 115: Making Sense of ’Big Data’
PCB Chat 110: Steve Robinson of APCT
RM 114: The Remarkable Return of the Post-Reflow Cleaning Process
RM 113: Counterfeit Component Detection with Dr. Eyal Weiss
Business Challenges with STI Electronics’ President David Raby
PCB Chat 109: Wally Rhines on the PCB Design Software Market
PCB Chat 108: Travis Kelly on Government Support of the US PCB Industry
RM 112: ESD Mitigation with ESD Expert Christopher Almeras
RM 111: Liquid Metal’s Potential Future in Electronics
RM 109: A Decade of Industry 4.0 - What it Was - What it Wasn’t
PCB Chat 107: Valentina Ratner and Kyle Dumont of AllSpice
PCB Chat 106: Madan Jagernauth on the Latest HDP Projects
RM 108: SMTA Pan Pacific Microelectronics Symposium Preview
RM 107: IPC Validation Services & the Trusted Supplier Program
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