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Article: Attaining Lead-free Solder Joint Reliability

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With the lead-free deadline approaching, EMS providers must offer OEMs transitional know-how to resolve several impending lead-free concerns, such as lead-free solder joint reliability.

With the 2006 deadline for RoHS and lead-free compliance fast approaching, there is growing confusion among OEMs over a variety of issues and technologies aimed at resolving lead-free concerns, particularly lead-free solder joint reliability. An efficient route for an OEM is to work in tandem with an EMS provider capable of offering transitional expertise to guide OEM engineers through these issues, as well as potential pitfalls. In effect, an arrangement like this can be an extension of an OEMs' R&D; ...

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