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Kester to Hold Lead-free Seminar in March
January 27, 2005 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
DES PLAINES, Ill. — Kester announces that it will hold seminars throughout 2005, titled, "Project 2005: Achieving Lead-free RoHS Assembly." The fourth seminar in the series will be held March 15, 2005, in Rosemont, Ill., and the fifth seminar will be held March 17, in Bloomington, Minn.
As the July 1, 2006 deadline for the European WEEE and RoHS directives approach, many products will be lead-free and also free of environmentally unfriendly chemicals specified for elimination in the RoHS document. In 2004, China also joined in with a similar RoHS plan, resulting in more RoHS-compliant products in the near future.
Kester has been working to prepare companies for this upcoming change; this seminar series is designed specifically to assist companies in transitioning reliably without false starts, and brings together the information that will save companies many engineering hours of research and will give what is needed to achieve lead-free and RoHS compliancy.
This particular seminar includes six hours of presentation, ideas and discussion covering the following topics: lead-free and RoHS directive overview; impact to a company's operations; impact of dual systems, leaded and lead-free; boards and RoHS requirements; components and RoHS requirements; lead-free soldering and alloy selection; surface-finish changes and solderability; equipment changes and process modifications; optimizing the wave-solder operation; optimizing the SMT process; hand-soldering and rework production issues; preventing soldering defects with lead-free; contamination controls; training and documentation with lead-free; field service issues with lead-free; and finished assembly identification and traceability.