Preventing Manufacturing Defects & Product Failures
This webinar will preview the IPC APEX EXPO 2023 professional development course, “Preventing Product Failure and Manufacturing Defects.” Join Dr. Jennie S. Hwang to explore how to prevent prevailing production defects and product reliability issues that affect the first-pass yield/cost/performance by understanding potential causes and plausible solutions.
The webinar will cover product failure as related to tin whisker and five production defects including PCB pad cratering vs. pad lifting, BGA head-on-pillow, open or insufficient solder joints, copper dissolution and lead-free through-hole barrel filling.
The root causes/preventive measures for the five prevalent production defects; and specific defects associated with the reliability of BTC/PoP/BGA assembly will be highlighted. Tin whisker criteria for reliability implications and the relative effectiveness of mitigating measures will be ranked.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Hwang brings deep knowledge and comprehensive experience to this course through both hands-on and advisory capacities. She has provided solutions to reportedly the most challenging issues in production yield and high-reliability products, covering commercial and military applications. She is the author of seven internationally-used textbooks and 650+ publications; a speaker in innumerable international and national events; has received numerous honors/ awards; on the Board of NYSE Fortune 500 companies and on various civic, government and university boards and committees (e.g., DoD - Globalization Committee, DoD - Forecasting Future Disruptive Technologies Committee, National Materials & Manufacturing Board, Board of Army Science and Technology, and NIST Technical Assessment Board). She is the Chair of the National Laboratory Assessment Board, Assessment Board of Army Research Laboratory, and Army Engineering Centers. Her formal education includes Harvard Business School Executive Program; four academic degrees in Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, Physical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and liquid Crystal Science (Ph.D. M.S., M.S., B.S.). She has held senior executive positions with Lockheed Martin Corp., SCM Corp, Sherwin Williams Co, and International Electronic Materials Corp. She is also an invited distinguished adj. Professor of Engineering School of Case Western Reserve University, and serves on the University’s Board of Trustees.