NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20020080948: Testing Services

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by  NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

ITestin g Services
Tr ace Laboratories is a full Specifically, NASA information on the durability of parts is
service independent testing on "electromigration"w as used by manufacturers to refine
laboratory specializing in applied to the surface insulation their production processes.
the testing of printed circuit resistance (SIR) testing that Says JeffryS chutt, "The
boards, automotive products Trace Laboratories frequently Technical Support Packages
and military hardware. The conducts on printed circuit from NASA reaffirmedm uch
company maintains two sepa- board materials, such as fluxes of what we already knew
rate facilities in Chicago, Illinois and solder pastes (below about electromigration but also
and Linthicum, Maryland to a Trace technician is assessing opened our eyes to other issues
serve U.S. customers. the integrity of a prepared test that needed to be considered.
Trace Laboratories-Central pattern prior to subjecting it to The information enabled us
in Chicago is one of many U.S. testing). The NASA input to improve the quality of the
firms that have benefited from helped optimize the SIR testing service we provide our
technical information contained process without compromising customers."
in NASA Tech Briefs, a publica- testing data and it allowed
tion designed to advise Trace to reduce testing time.
industry of recent technological This is important because
NASA TECHNICAL advances and technologies SIR testing evaluates the effects
available for transfer (see on electronic materials that
page 141). have been cleaned by an alter-
INFORMATION HELPED
JeffryA . Schutt, general native method to the use of
manager of Trace Laboratories- chlorofluorocarbon (CFC)
IMPROVE THE SERVICE Central, reports that his division solvents, which electronics
used two Tech Briefs articles, manufacturers have used for
plus follow-up Technical Sup- years to clean components;
TECHNIQUES OF A
port Packages from Jet Propul- they are seeking to eliminate
sion Laboratory, to enhance CFC solvents, which are soon
1 TESTING LABORATORY the company's testing process. to be banned. SIR test data
Publ~cS afety