SPOKANE VALLEY, WA – ACE Production Technologies is offering a series of selective soldering workshops in October.

An introductory workshop will be held Oct. 1-2 at ACE’s facility here. This two-day workshop is designed to enhance an attendee’s working knowledge of the overall selective soldering process. Topics include component limitations, clearance restrictions, flux chemistries, no-clean processing, and solder joint reliability issues, as well as problem solving and process optimization.

The classroom portion will be conducted by Bob Klenke of ITM Consulting, while the hands-on portion will be taught by staff members in the ACE application lab.

An advanced workshop will be held Oct. 29-30. This workshop focuses on providing details of printed circuit board construction, such as copper layers, barrel plating and porosity. The interaction between the printed circuit board and the selective soldering process, as well as the heat flow characteristics within thermally challenging multilayer boards, will be defined.

Stan Bentley of Divsys International will instruct the classroom portion of the workshop.

For more information, or to register for the workshops, contact Rae Ann Miller at rmiller@ace-protech.com or call 509-924-4898, Ext. 102.