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SEATTLE – Industry veteran and cleaning expert Dr. Carl Tautscher died July 20 from complications from knee surgery. He was active in the electronics industry for more than 40 years.
Tautscher received his doctorate in general chemistry from the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He was chairman of the IPC Cleaning and Contamination Control Subcommittee for five years. He was also the chairman of the Aqueous Post Solder Cleaning task group and served on the MIL-F-14256 task group.
During his career, Tautscher authored more than 50 articles and presentations on joining, cleaning, coating and related subjects, plus two textbooks and four minitexts on cleaning, coating and contamination effects.
In 1980, he received the E-Systems Creativity Award for a unique soldering process, and won a Best Article Award from Insulation Circuits in 1978 for his paper "Contamination Introduced by the Soldering Process.”
He also received the Special Recognition Award from IPC in 1996 for years of service and leadership in the efforts to complete IPC-AC-62A, the "Aqueous Post Solder Cleaning Handbook."
ATLANTA – Beginning Oct. 13, Circuits Assembly seeks participants for its annual Service Excellence Awards (SEAs) for EMS providers and electronics assembly equipment, material and software suppliers.
Now in its 18th year, the SEAs honor companies in electronics manufacturing for excelling in the critical area of customer service, permitting participants to benchmark customer service against their peers.
NORCROSS, GA – Engent recently expanded its facility here by 8,000 sq. ft. to accommodate anticipated orders.
WEYBRIDGE, SURREY, UK -- TT Electronics reported a first-half loss on weakness in sales to the automotive and industrial sectors.
TOKYO -- Japan-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers reported the 90-day moving average orders hit 43.78 billion yen ($464 million) in July as the nation is showing a sharp recovery from the trough earlier this year.
SIOUX FALLS, SD -- Raven Industries reported second-quarter sales of $56.6 million, down 18% year-over-year on seasonal weakness and the general economic conditions.
SALT LAKE CITY -- CirTran Corp. said it swung to a net profit despite a 27% drop in sales for its June quarter.
SAN JOSE – North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $569.7 million in orders in July, up 62% sequentially, SEMI said today.
Combat Counterfeit is an industry service similar to lists on lead-free assembly and tin whiskers. John Burke of RoHSUSA set up the list to facilitate communication on the widespread problem.
To subscribe to the list, email combatcounterfeit-request@freelists.org. Type “subscribe” in the subject field. Subsequently, posts can be sent via combatcounterfeit@freelists.org.
Burke is also setting up a database of components obtained in good faith that turned out to be counterfeit. This list will not be available online, but will be compiled and held on a secure server. Potential buyers will be able to call for information about whether a certain component has a history of counterfeiting, and whether a company has any strikes in this regard.
For more information, email john@rohsusa.com.
