Cleanliness Behind Many Assembly Challenges Eric Camden says nobody knows your board like you do, so it’s time for assemblers to start doing their own cleanliness testing and due diligence, and stop relying on outside organizations to determine how clean their boards need to be. Nolan Johnson: Could you launch us into this conversation with a quick recap on yourself, your background, and a little about the company you work for? Eric Camden: Officially I’m a lead investigator at Foresite in Kokomo, Indiana. We’re a failure analysis and reliability testing laboratory. I’ve been here 21 years, and I’ve spent the majority of my time going through other people’s processes. I’ll see a failure, or they’re trying to optimize a process in some sort of way on the assembly side of things; we will analyze that as well as going onsite to look at the equipment and processing parameters, and then determine where optimizations can be made. I’ve spent a lot of my time on improving reliability for our customers in that way, as well as failure analysis. We are an in-depth failure analysis lab with experience from all corners of the industry, from component packaging to assembly.