RTW SMTAI: Harold Sneath Highlights Alpha’s Reclaims Business

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Reclamation can be a profit center, not a cost of doing business. At the recent SMTA International 2018 conference and exhibition, Harold Sneath, Eastern Regional Reclaim Manager at Alpha Assembly Solutions, lays out the reclamation services available through Alpha. He also talks about educating their customers on the value of properly collecting materials and recycling them, and how they can get a monetary return on those recycled materials.

Watch the interview here. 

11/07/2018 | I-Connect007 Editorial Team

In this interview, Jason Fullerton of Alpha Assembly Solutions discusses the benefits and challenges of low-temperature soldering. He also highlights the biggest concerns he’s currently seeing in the industry, including young engineers lacking hands-on manufacturing experience and training, voiding and head-in-pillow issues, and low-temperature soldering demands.

10/31/2018 | Traian C. Cucu, Alpha Assembly Solutions, and Ioan Plotog and Mihai Branzei, Politechnica University of Bucharest

This article examines the performance of two low melting point SnBi alloys used in solder paste when assembling BGA components with SAC alloy spheres, and the advantages of a low-temperature process over the regular SAC assembly process. It will also evaluate solder paste capability regarding the process and the performance of a joint formed with a low melting point alloy solder paste and SAC305 spheres, including process advantages and material capabilities.

09/11/2018 | Jason Fullerton, Alpha Assembly Solutions

This paper investigates and compares the performance of no-clean liquid wave soldering fluxes using a commercially available localized extraction and cleanliness testing system, and surface insulation resistance (SIR) testing. Find out which test is suitable for your processes.