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.

Once you’ve mastered this skill, you’ll find that it unlocks further interest and additional opportunities to explore electronic repairs ranging from simple to complex. How do electrical engineers ...

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 ...

When everything used wires, it was easy to splice them or replace them. Not so much with PC boards, but everyone has their favorite method for repairing a broken trace. [Mr. SolderFix] has his five ...

is executive editor who has obsessed over headlines and internet speeds since 2011. He previously worked as an advocate for the National Park System. University of Illinois engineers have found a way ...

FLIR Systems has published an application note that describes how their ETS320 thermal imaging camera is being used by Isomedia (Stuttgart, Germany) to investigate and speed-up the repair of assembled ...

Nick Statt is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a decade. Apple quietly announced the launch of a free repair program for the ...