Vitronics Soltec (Oosterhout, the Netherlands) has ­announced the schedule for their third annual European seminar tour, "Lead-Free Soldering: How Ready Are You . . . Really?" With the July 1, 2006 deadline for conversion to lead-free soldering rapidly approaching in Europe, this tour is designed to help electronics assemblers accelerate their conversion efforts to be ready and compliant on time.

 

 The 2004 tour is based on Vitronics Soltec's "5 Steps to Lead-Free Soldering" program, includes the company's latest findings and addresses the lead-free process for all three automated soldering processes: reflow, wave and selective soldering.

 

In the morning sessions, highlights of the "5 Steps" program will be covered, including backward and forward compatibility within lead-free processing, effect of cooling rate on solder joint structure, compatibility of equipment materials with new alloys and many case studies illustrating challenges, pitfalls and success stories drawn from real life.

 

Other sessions include Success Factors for Lead-Free Wave Soldering, Conversion to Lead-Free Selective Soldering, High Speed Lead-Free Reflow Soldering, Lead-Free Cause and Effects, 5 Steps User Information and an interactive session whereby detailed presentations will be given on topics chosen by the attendees.

 

The seminar schedule is as follows:

 

September 2004

 

07 - UK, Manchester

 

09 - Ireland, Limerick

 

14 - Portugal, Porto

 

15 - Spain, Terrassa

 

16 - France, Rennes

 

21 - Hungary, Szekesfehervar

 

22 - Austria, Vienna

 

23 - Slovenia, Kranj

 

28 - Germany, Hannover

 

29 - Germany, Würzburg

 

30 - Switzerland, Zürich

 

 

October 2004

 

11 - Italy, Padova

 

12 - Italy, Bergamo

 

13 - Italy, Fiuggi

 

14 - France, Archamps

 

19 - Poland, Gdansk

 

20 - Denmark, Arhus

 

21 - Sweden, Stockholm

 

26 - Finland, Espoo

 

28 - Benelux, Oosterhout

 

29 - Benelux, Oosterhout

 

 

November 2004

 

02 - Turkey, Istanbul

 

04 - Czech Republic, Brno

 

 For more information or to register online, visit www.vitronics-soltec.com.

 

 

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