Indoor corrosion monitoring is a technique adopted to detect and measure corrosion in electronics. It is a continuous procedure aimed to identify the signs of corrosion at an early stage or determine the rate of corrosion, to establish the right corrosion management measures.
Corrosion in electronics can occur due to many reasons. Manufacturing defects are one of them; the residual flux can cause the electronics to fail to corrosion, but this type of corrosion failure is warranted by the manufacturer. The other major reason is corrosion due to the infiltration of foreign particles which are corrosive to the metals used in electronics. With the lead-free regulation in effect by the RoHS directives, electronics are more susceptible to corrosion now than ever before. Such a corrosion failure is not covered by the manufactures warranty and will result in huge losses as maintenance costs. With corrosion failures, the electronics quickly fail without even serving half of their expected service life. Corrosion monitoring is aimed at finding this corrosion rate and severity to prevent electronics failure.
