BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, UK – The Smart Group will hold a two-day technical conference Oct. 6 and 7 at the Oxfordshire GC Business Centre.

The event addresses the supply chain, informs about the latest research projects, and explores whether manufacturing standards improve the industry.

Other topics include production control, chemistry, what’s happening with RoHS and REACH, cleaning, tin whiskers and component tinning practices.

The full program and a list of exhibitors will be announced soon.

The conference is timed with the organization’s 26th anniversary.

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.

LOS ALTOS, CA – US medical electronics production slowed to 4.8% growth in 2009, down from 7% the year before, a leading analyst said.

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