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SMTA Boston Program to Feature Mini-conference on RoHS
March 4, 2005 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
MINNEAPOLIS — The SMTA announces plans for the 2005 SMTA Boston event, to be held May 3-5 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in Boston, Mass., in conjunction with NEPCON East/Electro. This program will feature full- and half-day courses, a new mini-conference on complying with RoHS, and a keynote address, as well as co-located certification programs for SMT Processes and Six Sigma Green Belt.
Course topics include the following:
*Troubleshooting lead-free SMT assembly process*The use of Six Sigma to design, manage, test and quality control the surface mount manufacturing line*Advanced SMT manufacturing*Lead-free rework*Implementing lead-free assembly at your facility
The new mini-conference, entitled, "Complying with RoHS: Real-world Examples of What Companies are Doing Today," is a one-day program moderated by Harvey Stone of the Goodbye Chain Group, which focuses on actual experiences that companies are having in solving the many difficult challenges of environmental legislative compliance. It will begin with a general session on complying with RoHS, covering topics such as legal requirements, multi-functional implications, key issues and current examples.
Break-out session topics throughout the day include gathering organizational resources for RoHS-compliance; determining your post-RoHS product mix; solving the parts numbering and inventory puzzles; converting to lead-free manufacturing; collecting, aggregating, and reporting substance-level data; and building a "reasonable steps" defense. The mini-conference will conclude with a review of key issues and practices.
During the SMTA general meeting, Dr. Ken Gilleo, ET Trends LLC, will give the keynote presentation, "SMTA—More Alive in '55 (that's 2055)." He will focus on what assembly is going to be like 50 years from now, and what will be assembled and where. It will include nanotechnology and Moore's Law and quantum photonics and biogenesis for computing, linking and control.
For more information and secure online registration for the SMTA Boston program, please visit www.smta.org/education/academy/academy.cfm#boston, and for more information on the co-located SMT Processes and Six Sigma Green Belt Certification Programs, please visit www.smta.org/certification/certification.cfm. Contact Kristin Nafstad, SMTA director of education, for any further information at kristin@smta.org or (952) 920-7682.