Reliability Matters

A podcast by Mike Konrad - Tuesdays

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171 Episodes

  1. Episode 127: Ask the Experts - A Conversation with Phil Zarrow & Jim Hall

    Published: 9/12/2023

  2. Episode 126: Moisture Mitigation Strategies with Dan Jenkins and Rob Lowery

    Published: 8/22/2023

  3. Episode 125: DFM Best Practices with Pride Industries' Engineering Manager Andrew Williams

    Published: 8/8/2023

  4. Episode 124: Industry Icon Dave Hillman's Amazing 3,600 Mile Kayak Journey Down the Missouri River

    Published: 7/25/2023

  5. Episode #123: Introduction to HALT – Highly Accelerated Life Testing with Dr. Christopher Jackson

    Published: 7/11/2023

  6. Episode 122: The Integration of AI Into Inspection Systems

    Published: 6/27/2023

  7. Episode 121: Dr. John Mitchell discusses his new book "Fire Your Hiring Habits"

    Published: 6/13/2023

  8. Episode 120: Making Reliability Training Entertaining and Effective

    Published: 5/23/2023

  9. Episode 119: Quantum Mechanics Explained

    Published: 5/9/2023

  10. Episode 118: Making "Big Data" Useful with Intraratio's Ryan Gamble

    Published: 4/25/2023

  11. Episode 117: When Residues Cause Circuit Assemblies to Fail

    Published: 4/11/2023

  12. Episode 116: Supply Chain Musings

    Published: 3/28/2023

  13. Episode 115: Making Sense of "Big Data"

    Published: 3/14/2023

  14. Episode 114: The Remarkable Return of the Post-Reflow Cleaning Process

    Published: 2/21/2023

  15. Episode 113: A Conversation about Counterfeit Component Detection with Dr. Eyal Weiss

    Published: 2/7/2023

  16. Special Episode: A Conversation about Business Challenges with STI Electronics' President David Raby

    Published: 2/1/2023

  17. Episode 112: A Conversation about ESD Mitigation with ESD Expert Christopher Almeras

    Published: 1/24/2023

  18. Episode 111: Liquid Metal’s Potential Future in Electronics

    Published: 1/10/2023

  19. Episode 110: A Wrap-Up of the Reliability Matters 2022 Season

    Published: 12/20/2022

  20. Episode 109: A Decade of Industry 4.0 - What it Was - What it Wasn't

    Published: 12/13/2022

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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.Visit the Reliability Matters Podcast Website:https://www.reliabilitymatterspodcast.com