Mike Konrad Presents Keynote at SMTA Electronics in Harsh Environments Conference May 23

Corona, California – Mike Konrad, Founder and CEO of Aqueous Technologies has been selected to present a Keynote address at the SMTA Electronics in Harsh Environments Conference to be held in Amsterdam May 23-25 at the Park Plaza Amsterdam Airport, Netherlands.

Mike will be presenting “The Remarkable Return of Post-Reflow Cleaning as a Mainstream Process to Improve Reliability”. Presentation topics include: • The Age of No-Clean Fluxes and the Effect on Circuit Assemblies. • Factors influencing the decision to clean circuit assemblies. • Modern Residue-Related Failure Mechanisms. • Beyond ECM – Additional reasons for cleaning post-reflow circuit assemblies beyond ECM mitigation. • Harsh Environments and Other Factors Influencing Reliability • Cleaning Best Practices. • New IPC Cleanliness Testing and Process Monitoring Requirements. • Reflow Profiles and the Effect on Surface Insulation Resistance (SIR) Test. • New Cleanliness Quantification Standards (IPC J-STD001-H).

More information is available at https://smta.org/mpage/harsh