KOKOMO, IN, March 24 -- Foresite will offer a pair of two-day workshops on Understanding Process Residues & their Effects on Product Performance and Achieving Reliable Lead-Free Performance & Conducting Failure Analysis. Held in Atlanta and Dallas, the series will provide information for electronics manufacturers who are transitioning to lead-free assembly and are concerned with product cleanliness and long-term reliability.
The Atlanta workshop will be held on April 27-28; the Dallas workshop takes place May 3-4. Topics include: process residues and their effect on product performance, successfully implementing a lead-free process and conducting an effective failure analysis.
Terry Munson, a Circuits Assembly columnist, will lead the workshop. Terry has over 16 years of experience with how cleanliness is affecting product reliability for electronic hardware.
For more info and to register, visit www.residues.com or call (765) 457-8095.
MILPITAS, CA -- Solectron
Corp., a provider of electronics
manufacturing services, today reported
second-quarter sales of $2.76 billion, down 4.5% from last year and up 3.6% sequentially.
The GAAP loss from continuing operations narrowed to $5 million, from $90 million in the second quarter of last year.
The company had non-GAAP net income from continuing operations of
$40 million, excluding $45 million of charges.
The company took a one-time charge of $40 million for the pending sale
of one of its Japanese facilities, a $3 million restructuring charge
and a $2 million charge related to its convertible note exchange offer.
LISLE, IL -- David D. Johnson today was named CFO of Molex, a maker of connectors and other circuit interconnects, effective May 13. Johnson was VP and CFP at Sypris
Solutions, a designer and manufacturer of electronics systems for the military.
He had been CFO of Sypris since March 1998.
Sypris named vice president and treasurer Anthony C. Allen acting CFO. The process for
identifying a permanent replacement has been initiated.