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Reliability Matters is a podcast on the subject of reliability of circuit assemblies. Reliability "best practices" and success stories are discussed. This podcast features interviews with experts in the electronic assembly industry.
All electronic production segments which effect product reliability are on the table. This includes contamination, coating, cleanliness assessment, inspection, building for harsh environments, reflow, printing, failure analysis, board fabrication, and much more.
Your Host:
Mike Konrad began his career in the electronic assembly equipment industry in 1985. Mike founded Aqueous Technologies in 1992 in response to the Montreal Protocol and the resulting international treaty banning most popular cleaning/defluxing solvents.
Mike is an internationally known speaker on the subject of increasing reliability through contamination removal and cleanliness quantification techniques and procedures. Mike was awarded “Distinguish Speaker Status” with SMTA in 2018 and received the “Rich Freiberger Best of Conference Award” in 2019.
Mike is a member of the SMTA Global Board of Directors where he is Vice President of Communications. Mike is also Vice President of Technical Programs for the Los Angeles / Orange County SMTA Chapter.
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Episode 120: Making Reliability Training Entertaining and Effective
Can reliability training the both entertaining and effective? The Manufacturing Game's Michelle Ledet Henley has a different approach to traditional training methods.
Michelle Ledet Henley has worked with The Manufacturing Game since 1998 as a developer of new simulations and training material. She has traveled worldwide in her capacity as a facilitator and trainer for The Manufacturing Game and other simulations developed by Ledet Enterprises, Inc. Michelle has been instrumental in developing simulations with a focus on reliability, project management and distribution.
She began her career with KPMG Peat Marwick in San Francisco, CA, and then worked for a real estate management and development firm in the Washington, D.C. area. Before joining The Manufacturing Game®, Michelle formed her own company, Innovative Interfaces, which provides computer programming services around the United States.
Michelle has a bachelors of business administration degree from the University of Texas - Austin in Accounting and Information Services.
Michelle's Contact Information:
mrledet@manufacturinggame.com
http://manufacturinggame.com
linkedin.com/in/michelleledethenley
The following books were recommended on this episode:
Don’t Just Fix It, Improve It
https://a.co/d/gYvMKdI
The Story Telling Code by Dana Norris
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Episode 119: Quantum Mechanics Explained
I first met my guest at the SMTA Pan Pacific Symposium in Hawaii this past January. He was presenting a paper entitled Quantum Technology, A Theoretical Overview of the Possibilities. The more I listened to and watched his presentation, the more I wanted to learn about quantum physics and mechanics. So I selfishly invited him onto my show today so I could learn more, and perhaps you can too.
My guest today is Dr. James Whitfield. Dr. Whitfield is an associate professor of physics at Dartmouth. He earned his Bachelor's of science and chemistry and mathematics from Morehouse University and his PhD in chemical physics from Harvard University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University in New York, Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology in Vienna and Gant University and Belgium, and he is currently an Amazon visiting academic and even better than all that, he's my guest today on the Reliability Matters Podcast. -
Episode 118: Making "Big Data" Useful with Intraratio's Ryan Gamble
The subjects of Industry 4.0 and Big Data have been widely discussed on this podcast. What is Industry 4.0? What data is our industry collecting? And, perhaps more importantly, how can we sift through all of that data to make it useful and actionable?
To help answer these and other data-related questions, I invited Ryan Gamble, CEO and Founder of Intraratio on this episode. Intraratio Corporation is a company that provides on-premise and cloud hybrid software with platforms to track, manage, control, and automate the manufacture of advanced electronics. Intraratio serves the semiconductor, SMT, space/military, medical device and EV markets. Ryan earned a dual Electrical and Computer Engineering degree and spent many years in the semiconductor industry. He’s responsible for improving product manufacturing and testing of commercial and space/military product lines including multi-core DSP, RF and Silicon Photonics devices. During this period he developed software systems to automate and manage quality and reliability of complex electronics, extending this to hyperscale web based platforms that interconnect factories globally.
His passion is working with all levels, to identify and recommend solutions to business problems, based on a deep technical understanding of operational processes and product complexities.
Ryan's Contact Info:
rgamble@intraratio.com
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Episode 117: When Residues Cause Circuit Assemblies to Fail
My guest, Eric Camden (Lead Investigator with Foresite) and I discuss electrochemical migration (ECM) and other failure modes caused by residues on circuit assemblies.
Eric Camden's Contact Information:
ericc@foresiteinc.com
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Episode 116: Supply Chain Musings
On this episode, I speak with Mark Goodwin, COO of Ventec Europe, a supplier of copper clad laminates and prepreg bonding materials for the circuit board fabrication industry about supply chain challenges.
Mark Goodwin's Contact Information:
mark.goodwin@ventec-europe.com
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Episode 115: Making Sense of "Big Data"
You don't have to be in the tech industry you understand importance and value of data. Industries have always collected various sets of data, first manually and, in modern times, automatically. The volume of data has historically been limited to the ability to capture and store it. Recent advances in technology have vastly increased the ability to capture and store data. The industry 4.0 movement has fueled both of desire and requirement to capture data.
We have created a "be careful what you ask for" scenario as we now are capturing data at an unprecedented rate but frequently lack the ability to discern and analyze all of our newly captured data.
My guest today, Luisa Herrmann, Head of Product for Arch Systems, is helping to transform "big data" into useful data. Luisa has 10 years of experience in Product Management and Product Marketing, launching products, building teams, and scaling organizations in the data software space. She was most recently the Head of Product at Cape Privacy, an encrypted machine learning company, and before that she was the Head of Product at expert.ai, an NLP company. She has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and lives in the Boston area.
Luisa Herrmann may be contacted here:
lherrmann@archsys.io
https://archsys.io/
Customer Reviews
Amazing content
This podcast channel is my absolute favorite channel to listen to when I'm driving or working out. Mike is a great host & I'm a fan of his show! He's been in the EMS industry for over 35 years. He brings in the experts to address topics related to reliability. Very informative channel.