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About the Podcast
Reliability Matters is a podcast on the subject of reliability of circuit assemblies. Reliability best-practices and success stories are discussed. This podcast features interviews with experts in the electronic assembly industry. We interview engineers, scientists, academics, and other professionals in an unbiased, commercial-free environment.
All electronic production segments which effect product reliability are on the table. This includes printing, soldering materials, reflow, inspection, board fabrication and design, DFM/DFR, cleaning, thermal management, failure analysis, training and education, and so much more.
To date, there are more than 140 episodes available. Episodes have been downloaded more than 80,000 times.
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Our Guests
Our guests are all subject matter experts from industry and academia. During each episode we take a deep dive into reliability-based topics from our guest’s perspective. Each episode is about one hour in length so there’s adequate time to take a deep dive.
The Reliability Matters Podcast is non-commercial. We do not have sponsors or commercials which may otherwise influence our guest selection or topics.
New episodes of the Reliability Matters Podcast are released on the second and fourth Tuesday of every month.
The Reliability Matters Podcast is available on most podcast apps and on the Reliability Matters Podcast YouTube channel (HERE). Additionally, the Reliability Matters Podcast is also available on the Printed Circuit Engineering Association’s (PCEA) PCB-Chat (HERE) and on Accendo Reliability (HERE).
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About Mike
A California native, Mike began his career in the electronic assembly equipment industry in 1985. Mike founded Aqueous Technologies in 1992 in response to the Montreal Protocol and the resulting international treaty banning most popular cleaning/defluxing solvents.
Mike is an internationally known speaker on the subject of increasing reliability through contamination removal and cleanliness quantification techniques and procedures. Mike was awarded “Distinguish Speaker Status” with SMTA in 2018 and received the “Rich Freiberger Best of Conference Award” in 2019.
Mike is the Conference Chair for the SMTA Pan Pacific Strategic Electronics Symposium held annually in Hawaii.
Mike is also a member of the SMTA Global Board of Directors where he is Vice President of Communications. Locally, Mike is Vice President of Technical Programs for the Los Angeles / Orange County SMTA Chapter.
Mike is the producer and host of the popular Reliability Matters Podcast available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, YouTube, and other popular podcast sites.
