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Indium Corp. (Clinton, NY) has promoted Leo M. Devine to market development manager for wave solder products.
In this role, Devine will be responsible for the marketing of the company's fluxes, chemicals and alloys for through-hole circuit board assembly.
Devine has several years of industry experience. He will be based in the company's global headquarters in Clinton.
Indium is a supplier of electronics assembly materials including solder pastes, solder preforms, fluxes, lead-free solder alloys, underfill materials and die-attach materials.
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UP Media Group Inc. (Atlanta, GA) announced the final conference program and event schedule for PCB Design Conference East 2004—the premier East Coast conference and exhibition for printed circuit board engineering, design and manufacture professionals.
The ninth annual PCB East 2004 will be held at a new venue, the Radisson Hotel Manchester, in Manchester, NH, a location that's central to the New England technology corridor and a short distance from Canada's "Silicon Valley North."
PCB East 2004 features a theme that is extremely relevant and on target for today's PCB designers, engineers and managers: "Education For Your Most Pressing PCB Design Challenges, Including Lead-Free, Embedded Components, High Speed and PCB Design Fundamentals." In fact, more than a third of this year's 36 Professional Development and Technical Conference courses focus on the challenges posed by lead-free printed circuit board design/manufacture/assembly, embedded components and high-speed design.
Additionally, over 80% of this year's courses are new to PCB East, with the rest returning due to popular demand.
"When conference attendees participate in classroom discussions, show floor presentations, networking events and vendor-sponsored activities, they learn about PCB design/manufacture technologies and techniques that they can take back to their employer and share with their coworkers," said UPMG President Pete Waddell. "Participating in a terrific technical conference like PCB East is a win-win situation for everyone involved—our attendees, their companies, and our exhibitors."
PCB East 2004 features a five-day conference program of targeted Professional Development and Technical Conference courses, plus a keynote address, a variety of free special networking events, and a terrific two-day exhibition of the industry's hottest products and services. The three-day technical conference (Oct. 5 - 7) includes 26 short courses—19 of them new to PCB Design Conference East.
Also offered: 10 Professional Development Certificate Program courses, including seven full-day tutorials and three two-day Design Excellence Curriculum courses for which attendees will receive certificates of completion.
The two-day exhibition begins Oct. 5 at 10 a.m.
Registration for the two-day exhibition and most special events is free.
Attitudes were upbeat at the annual SMTA/IMAPS Upper Midwest Industry Appreciation Day on June 2, 2004, as attendees and exhibitors looked to network with customers and gather sales leads during the small exhibition. The one-day event is designed to showcase surface-mount materials and services from adhesives to laser stencils to flip chip underfills.
Hosted at 3M (St. Paul, MN) headquarters for the third time, the show sold out, attracting more than 170 attendees and 55 exhibitors.
"Compared to a year ago, business is picking up and we're a lot more hopeful than we were last year at this show," said Richard Brooks, technical manager at Indium Corp. of America, supplier of electronics assembly materials.
Representatives from other companies—including JMW Enterprises and 3M—agree that business has been picking up.
"We were fortunate that we remained busy even during the downturn due to the nature of our business [selling pre-owned electronic assembly equipment]," said Brian Ebbinger, sales manager for JMW Enterprises. "Electronics manufacturing is booming across the board. We're anticipating that business will continue to increase throughout the year."
"Business in electronics has been very promising," said Greg Eick, market development manager for 3M Electronics Markets Materials Division, a supplier of adhesives, tapes, abrasives and specialty fluids and gases to electronics manufacturers. "We've seen double digit sales increases every quarter. With the help of great networking opportunities like this show, we continue to gather solid leads and meet our goals."
"This is our first year exhibiting and we're pleased with the number of quality leads we've received," said Cris Smith, national sales manager for Global Stencil, a supplier of surface-mount stencils, inspection templates and customized parts. "The return on investment at smaller shows like this more than covers the cost of attending. The show also provides a personable venue to meet with current and potential customers, which aligns directly with our philosophy of offering a high level of customer service."
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International Manufacturing Services Inc. (IMS, Portsmouth, RI), a manufacturer of thick film resistors and substrates to the electronics industry, has announced the appointment of DM Associates Inc. (Columbus, OH) as the company's representative in the states of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and western Pennsylvania.
DM Associates is a manufacturer's representative in the central U.S. with sales offices in Columbus and Cleveland, OH, and Indianapolis and South Bend, IN.
IMS also recently announced the availability of lead-free compatible thick film chip resistor components for customers transitioning to lead-free circuit assembly. The products feature lead-free end terminal metallizations designed for compatibility with all lead-free alloys and flux systems currently available.
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Preco Electronics (Morton, Illinois), an electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider serving middle-market original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), announced the launch of its plan to incorporate six sigma principles throughout the company. Recently, the senior management of Preco attended a weeklong program to understand more about integrating six sigma into the company's existing lean philosophies.
While the existing lean manufacturing initiatives have eliminated waste and improved performance at the Morton facility for the past four years, six sigma provides tools to utilize process data in all areas of the business to reduce variation in execution and improve quality while reducing costs to the customer.
The unification of
these philosophies will provide Preco Electronics with: an evolving
framework to insure that customer critical requirements are understood
and operation focus is developed to address them; a program to identify
the root cause of issues and process inefficiencies and solve them
permanently; and a data-driven culture based on continuous improvement.
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The International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS) announced that Alec J. Babiarz, senior vice president and a founder of Asymtek (Carlsbad, CA) will be the keynote speaker at the 37th International Symposium on Microelectronics to be held Nov. 14-18, 2004, in Long Beach, CA.
Babiarz also serves as vice president, new business development for Nordson Corp., Asymtek's parent company. Since 1983, Babiarz and Asymtek co-founders Robert Ciardella and Philip Maiorca have built the company from a small operation into a manufacturer of dispensing equipment worldwide. In 2004, Asymtek received Intel's highest honor for its suppliers, the Supplier Continuous Quality Improvement Award.
"We are very pleased that Alec accepted our invitation," said Maurice Lowery, IMAPS 2004 General Chair. "Alec's experience and insight with Asymtek—and as an IMAPS Corporate member—make him the ideal candidate to provide the information our attendees are looking for. His first-hand involvement from the very beginning gives him the credibility we need to help guide the principals in other companies through the successful growth process."
Asymtek supplies automated fluid dispensing systems, specializing in semiconductor, surface-mount and electronics packaging applications.
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