CORONA, CA – 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