Manassas, VA – February 14, 2018 ZESTRON, the globally leading provider of high precision cleaning products, services and training solutions in the electronics manufacturing and semiconductor industries, is pleased to announce that Umut Tosun will instruct a professional development course at IPC APEX 2018. “Electronic Assembly Reliability – Meeting the Challenges of Today’s Design” is scheduled during the PD25 session on Thursday, March 1st from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM.

Electronics design and assembly continues to evolve in complexity and performance and at an ever increasing rate. Likewise, solder paste formulations have evolved yielding products that are halide-free, lead-free, and with low solids as in the case of No Clean pastes and fluxes. In order to meet the ever increasing reliability challenges posed by electronics manufacturing, significant developments have been made regarding cleaning technology. This course has been developed to address the electronics cleaning challenges and the latest cleaning technology trends.

Umut Tosun, M.S.Ch.E., is the Application Technology Manager at ZESTRON Americas, and as an active member of the SMTA and IPC, has presented numerous technical studies at key industry events addressing critical cleaning challenges within electronics manufacturing. He has been an instructor at IPC sponsored Professional Development seminars, SMTA sponsored webtorials as well as numerous regional technical workshops. Additionally, he has been the recipient of awards recognizing his contributions to the industry.

For more information on this course or to register, please visit IPC APEX.