Hi everyone,

I'm new to this site. My name is Marg. I'm looking for any training material that anyone is willing to share related to hands on courses such as ESD, Comp ID, Soldering, etc. I am familiar with IPC and have several of their manuals but am looking for material related to hands on courses.

I've recently been hired as a Training Specialist for a company who until now has only had a contract trainer. There is very little documented information related to any material that has been used in the past.

I would also like to see what others are using for a non-conforming material form or report at this time.

Thanks for sharing. You can email me at my address in my profile.

Marg

Welcome to The Cove Marg! :bigwave:

I used to work for an electronics manufacturer that did training for soldering, ESD etc.

But the hands on training is for whom? What are their jobs--soldering? Or inspecting soldered pins for sufficient bond, concavity, cracking etc?

If you are teaching how to solder, I further want to know how much the company is willing to spend for hands on training? Here (http://www.electronickits.com/kit/complete/complete.htm) are some electronics kits if you need to build any kind of skill and have a budget. I am not affiliated with the site.

Of course they can always practice on scrap product too.

I remember our trainers making models of acceptable and unacceptable soldered contacts out of modeling clay and popsicle sticks.

ESD is not something that needs a lot of training except to have samples of the protective items; be ready for demonstration and practice.

Really, you must start with the questions:

1. What skills do these people need?
2. What deficits do they have now?

And plan to meet the difference with your training and activities. Keep in mind that people learn differently and adults should only have about 45 minutes max in one classroom place at a time.

I hope this helps!

Contact the manufacturer of the soldering equipment your using. I know that PACE had soldering training material as I still have one of their manuals.

What level of soldering do you need, fully certified Mil-Spec, general uses or applications, etc?

Do an "Advanced Search" on google.com (http://www.google.com) looking for PDFs only.

Wayne

Good post and advice from Jennifer.

Perhaps your problem arise from the recent switch to lead-free solders. I remember seeing/reading about an IPC training video on the same. Perhaps you should check with them.

With regards to training of adults also bear in mind that their attention span is in the range of 7-20 minutes. For a forty minutes session, you need to try some tricks to catch their attention again and again.

I'm new to this site. My name is Marg. I'm looking for any training material that anyone is willing to share related to hands on courses such as ESD, Comp ID, Soldering, etc. I am familiar with IPC and have several of their manuals but am looking for material related to hands on courses.


Welcome to the Cove, Marg :D

From my own experience in electronics manufacturing, I don't know of a better source for training materials than IPC. (http://training.ipc.org/) What is it that you want specifically that they don't have?

As was stated, ESD training is fairly simple. I have attached a simple training presentation that can be used to get you started.

Hi Marg,

I would to share with you and rest of them is that training material is good to have for referring by inspector but afterall hand-on real world experiences guiding from certified trainer will be more effective. I am a certified IPC trainer in Singapore and have exposed to hand on work for at least 12 years, so my comment is the only hand-on standard is IPC-J-Std-001 and you really require further hand-on training etc. Do not go to Leadfree before you are confident at existing soldering.

Welcome to the Cove, Marg :D

From my own experience in electronics manufacturing, I don't know of a better source for training materials than IPC. (http://training.ipc.org/) What is it that you want specifically that they don't have?

Agree Jim, have a manual on my desk "IPC-A-610", Acceptability of Electronic Assemblies - contains clear concise photographs of acceptable / unacceptable standards - provides our customers / operators / inspectors the same "standard of workmanship"

The IPC also provide training information.

Marg,

All the information previously posted is very good; I have work though IPC training with both IPC-A-610D and J-STD-001D some of our customer required our operators to be trained to J-Standard, which is the base for IPC-A-610.
IPC does have all kinds of DVD’s and test for ESD, Soldering, and Component identification, plus lots of or useful items.
If you think you will be getting several of there training items I would suggest joint IPC you will get a 50% discount that would clearly benefit you in the long run.