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Your plant has several custom-built production machines that use various plug-in circuit boards. The standard practice has been to troubleshoot to the board level and then replace the entire board.

Whether you’re a book-learned engineer looking to finally get your hands on building circuits, or a maker, hobbyist, or student, these instructional videos get you started. The basic metallurgy of ...

In Part 3 of our weeklong series about local manufacturing, WGLT visits a Bloomington company that serves both farms and the ...

[Wayne] sent along this interesting read on circuit board repair. Even if you’re not uh, repairing, it’s interesting to get some ideas for modification techniques. Pictured is a DIP IC that’s been ...

ALJ Electronics’ Carolyne Johnson at her circuit-board repair business in El Segundo. When her father died in 2009 after years of battling lymphoma, Carolyne Johnson thought she was prepared to handle ...

Metcal, part of OK International and Dover (NYSE: DOV) and a leader in benchtop soldering for electronics and industrial manufacturing, today announced the global launch of its new PT4-4000 and ...

It can be a real drag to fix a circuit board which has stopped working as intended, especially if you don’t have any reference material for the product. That’s the position that [Todd Harrison] found ...

In the 1991 film Terminator 2, a robot villain called T-1000 was almost invincible because it could repair itself after being damaged. Now the abilities of this sci-fi villain are a step closer to ...