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KYOTO, JAPAN – Europe will play host next week to its first public Jisso European Council Seminar.
The event will provide the latest news from the JISSO meeting in Kyoto in May, as well as details about the new IEC standard development work for PCB with embedded components.
Jisso is a Japanese term for cooperation and refers to a loosely knit organization in Japan 12 years ago for electronics designers and packaging experts.
Aimed at electronics designers and process engineers, the session will offer details on chip design, packaging, PWB and PCB assembly and end-product, to aid understanding of design and manufacturing options.
Details are available at www.eipc.org.
WEYMOUTH, UK – The Alternative Energy Manufacturing Technologies seminar will take place June 15 at DEK here.
The event is a response to recent government funding initiatives, says organizer Smart Group.
Seminar topics include Introduction - Grabbing the Green Pound; Screen Printing Processes for Alternative Energy Technologies; Why Surface Mount Technologies Are Important in Commercializing Fuel-Cell and Micro-CHP Applications; Photovoltaic Technologies - An Overview; Performance Based Monitoring - A Strategic Imperative, and Screens for Alternative Energy Sectors - the Challenges.
The event will include a tour of DEK’s facilities with an onsite demonstration of printing solar photovoltaic cell wafers.
BRUSSELS – European Parliament member and RoHS rapporteur Jill Evans announced plans to drop amendments calling for a ban of all brominated flame retardants, including those such as tetrabromobisphenol-A (TBBPA), that have been found safe under European Union risk assessment.
TAIPEI -- As it attempts to counter angry public sentiment, Hon Hai (Foxconn) will raise workers' salaries by about 20% in China, according to several published reports.
Seminars are subdivided into reflow, selective and wave. Each category offers basic training courses on maintenance of soldering systems and optimization of processes and workflow.
Customers can select one or several training blocks from the existing courses to best suit individual needs.
Training courses can take place at the customer’s site or at Seho’s headquarters here.
For more information, visit www.seho.de.
WASHINGTON -- An International Trade Commission panel tasked with resolving a two-year patent battle pitting Rambus against Nvidia and several other big-name tech companies will delay ruling for two more months.
STERLING, MA – A longtime veteran of the electronics equipment wars has now turned his sites to an even bigger forum -- cancer -- and is enlisting the aid of former colleagues in the fight.
Nearly 500 EMS companies exhibited at the event in April, which was held in conjunction with the inaugural Green Lighting Shanghai Expo and Forum 2010.
Together, the shows drew 14,310. In a post-show poll, 95% of visitors agreed the event was fully representative of the industry, Reed Exhibitions says. Nepcon China 2011 is scheduled to take place May 11-13 at the Shanghai Everbright Convention and Exhibition Center.
ATLANTA -- A new white paper seeks to shed light on the counterfeit component trend plaguing the electronics manufacturing industry, highlighting inbound inspections and counterfeit avoidance.
