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Success Takes More Than Technical Mastery

The technical aspects of soldering are essential to success, of course. However, technical competence alone will not take the company to maximum performance. Superior communication and psychology are also essential.

Effective communication means everyone — managers, engineers and operators — use exactly the same words for exactly the same purposes. For example, "solderability" is a commonly used word in most plants but it means different things to different people; consequently, troubleshooting exercises often fail because different individuals understand the problem in different ways even though they are all using exactly the same word.

Ensuring that the terminology accurately reflects the condition is another requirement. "Cold solder" is a common example of a counterproductive term. Different people use the term to describe varying cosmetic conditions and that makes basic communication impossible. In addition, however, virtually none of the conditions described as "cold solder" are caused by lack of heat.

EMS Science of Soldering© develops a common, scientifically accurate vocabulary throughout the plant. The result is more effective communication and addressing the real process issues. That doesn't happen with solder training.

No matter what education level you’ve received, going through this course will give you a better understanding of how to create and recognize reliable solder joints. Quite simply, EMS Science of Soldering increases product reliability and reduces costs.

Jesse Austin
Manufacturing Engineer/Six Sigma Black Belt
Micro Motion Inc.
Boulder, CO


Electronics Manufacturing Sciences has immeasurably helped our organization improve its soldering processes with both a practical and common sense approach to problem solving and continual improvement.  Additionally, EMS support in helping educate both our customers and suppliers has proven invaluable.

Tom Geller
Operating Systems Coordinator
Flextronics Automotive
Markham, Ontario, Canada


EMS Science of Soldering training is excellent and is provided to everyone at Tecnologias de Flujo associated with soldering.

Let me put it this way: I’m an electronics engineer and yet, even with all the training and experience I have had in the field, after completing the course I realized I hadn’t really
known how to make a reliable soldering joint. The training helped me put together theory and practice and understand soldering from a “hands on” perspective.

It was great to discover that perfect soldering can be easily achieved by simply following the EMS soldering “Recipe.”

Ing. Miguel Alberto Mendoza
Engineering Superintendent
Emerson Process Management
Tecnologias de Flujo
Chihuahua, Mexico


For more than a quarter of a century, clients of Electronics Manufacturing Sciences have been enjoying some very special results such as:

All this occurs in large part because they focused on one fundamental objective: better soldering. And they invested in the radically unconventional management, quality and engineering solutions of EMS Science of Soldering.

Soldering Must be a Priority

Soldering is the heart of electronics manufacturing. It is also the least understood process and the most common cause of product failures.

Soldering involves a small number of fairly simple chemical, physical and metallurgical forces. Unfortunately, the electronics industry has changed a rather straightforward science into an incomprehensible collection of myths and legends. The difficulty is made worse by training (telling people what to do) rather than educating (showing why).

Soldering isn’t something that attracts much attention. But here are just a few reasons why soldering must be every company’s priority:

And the list goes on.

EMS Science of Soldering©

More than a quarter of a century ago, we recognized some fundamental problems about the state of soldering in electronics manufacturing. The problems are as real today as they were in 1981, including:

We dedicated ourselves to creating the teaching tools and support materials that would:

The result is EMS Science of Soldering©.  

Education Through Experiments and Demonstrations

EMS Science of Soldering© is genuine education. Through experiments and demonstrations, the course explains the essential science, exposes the myths, and develops a powerful “recipe” for perfect soldering.

The course teaches by troubleshooting a complex hands–on soldering process problem. In solving the problem (which involves several causes rather than a single root cause), the class learns the critical scientific forces that control all soldering from simple hand soldering to the most complex machine soldering.

Every class — for engineers, operators and managers — begins with this basic knowledge development. Engineering sessions then go into the science in greater detail and explain machine soldering and process management while operators go on to further skills development and understanding reliability criteria.. The result is that everyone in the company shares the same basic knowledge and terminology. The result is vastly more effective communication.

The engineering classes proceed to development of machine soldering processes and process management systems that prevent defects rather than allowing process mistakes and hoping inspection will find the defects. Data collection and use of data in process management are also examined.

Management sessions proceed to setting goals, budgeting, measuring performance, quality systems, managing customers, and selecting and managing suppliers.

EMS Science of Soldering isn’t just about the moment when liquid metal is applied to components.

Yes, EMS Science of Soldering does make control of the soldering process easy. But it also improves inter–departmental communication, develops problem–solving skills, generates curiosity and a willingness to question every aspect of the organization. In short, it does everything lean manufacturing wants to do but EMS Science of Soldering works much faster and more effectively than generic lean because the approach is specific to electronics manufacturing.

EMS Science of Soldering is not like anything you have ever experienced. It is so different that the only way to truly appreciate how and why it works is by experiencing it. For more information, including our unique risk–free guarantee, please write or call (01)727–866–6502 extension 21.

 

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