HERNDON, VA – A host of major OEM and EMS companies, under the auspices of iNEMI, has outlined a set of recommendations for managing Pb-free alloy alternatives.
 
The consortium members recommend the following to help manage the use of multiple solder alloys:

• Drive convergence of Pb-free alloys.
  
• Develop an industry-standard assessment methodology.
  
• Establish performance guidelines.
  
• Update standards.
  
• Identify and differentiate alloys.
  

iNEMI members supporting these recommendations include Agilent Technologies, Celestica, Cisco, Delphi Electronics & Safety, Flextronics International, Hewlett-Packard, Intel Corporation, Jabil Circuit, Motorola, Plexus Corp., Sanmina-SCI, Sun Microsystems and Texas Instruments.
 
INEMI’s recommendations are available at
http://thor.inemi.org/webdownload/projects/ba/Pb-Free_Alloys/Alloy_recs.pdf.