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IPC Credits Members with Awards Series
October 5, 2007 |Estimated reading time: 4 minutes
BANNOCKBURN, Ill. IPC Association Connecting Electronics Industries introduced the Founders Awards at its 50-year anniversary and first IPC Midwest Conference and Exhibition. Fifteen companies were recognized for continuous IPC membership for 40 or more years. IPC also announced recipients of the organization's Distinguished Committee Leadership, Special Recognition, and Committee Service awards.
IPC congratulated the following companies for 40+ years of membership: Ruwel AG. (Geldern, Germany), 40 years; Rohm and Haas (Freeport, N.Y.), 40 years; Yamanashi Avionics Co. (Yamanashi, Japan), 40 years; BGF Industries Inc. (Greensboro, N.C.), 41 years; The Boeing Company (Seattle, Wash.), 41 years; Hexcel (Anderson, S.C.), 41 years; Rockwell Collins (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), 42 years; Sypris Electronics LLC (Tampa, Fla.), 42 years; E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. (Circleville, Ohio), 43 years; Harris Corporation (Melbourne, Fla.), 43 years; Honeywell Corporation (Clearwater, Fla.), 43 years; Rogers Corporation (Rogers, Conn.), 43 years; Isola Group SARL (Chandler, Ariz.), 47 years; Endicott Interconnect Technologies (Endicott, N.Y.), 48 years; and Lockheed Martin Corporation (Oswego, N.Y.), 48 years.
IPC also presented its awards for individuals and teams that made significant contributions to IPC and the industry through standards and program development. Special Recognition award recipients were: Ray Cirimele, BEST Inc., for his contributions to IPC training video projects over the past ten years.Kathy Johnston, Raytheon Missile Systems; and David Nelson, Raytheon Company, for their contributions to the development of IPC J-STD-001DS, Space Applications Electronic Hardware Addendum.Doug Pauls, Rockwell Collins, for his expertise in developing Appendix C of the Surface Insulation Resistance Handbook.Duane Mahnke, Rogers Corporation, for his leadership and contributions in the development of Underwriters Laboratories 746F and 796F documents for flexible circuits applications with efforts focused through the IPC D-12a Task Group.Christine Blair, STMicroelectronics Inc.; Marie Cole, IBM Corporation; Denis Gignac, Nortel; Curtis Grosskopf, IBM Corporation; Joseph Kane, BAE Systems Platform Solutions; Karen McConnell, Lockheed Martin; Elvira Preecha, Qualcomm Inc.; Harry Siegel, STMicroelectronics Inc.; Valerie St. Cyr, Teradyne Inc.; George Wilkish, Prime Consulting; and Linda Woody, Lockheed Martin Missile & Fire Control, for their support in the development of IPC/JEDEC J-STD-609, Marking and Labeling of Components, PCBs and PCBAs to Identify Lead, Lead-free, and Other Attributes.Michael Beauchesne, Advanced Circuit Technology; Thomas Gardeski, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co.; Russell Griffith, Flexible Circuits Inc.; Karin LaBerge, Microtek Laboratories; Michael Musich, Sanmina-SCI; Bob Neves, Microtek Laboratories; Crystal Vanderpan, Underwriters Laboratories Inc.; and Clark Webster, ALL Flex Inc., for their contributions to Underwriters Laboratories' Standards 746F and 796F, with efforts focused through the IPC-D-12a Task Group.
Distinguished Committee Leadership awards went to 16 individuals:Jasbir Bath, Solectron Corporation; Jack McCullen, Intel Corporation; and Lee Wilmot, TTM Technologies, for their leadership of the IPC Marking, Symbols, and Labels for Identification of Assemblies, Components, and Devices Task Group.Hue Green, Lockheed Martin; and Garry McGuire, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, for their leadership of the IPC J-STD-001DS Space Applications Electronic Hardware Addendum Task Group.Chris Mahanna, Robisan Laboratory Inc., for his leadership of the 5-32b SIR Task Group in the development of IPC-9201A, Surface Insulation Resistance Handbook.Laihui Kang, Shenzhen Toptouch Consulting Limited Company, for his leadership of the 7-31f Wire Harness Acceptability Task Group.Andy Duan, Beijing Siemens Cerberus Electronics Limited and Nora Lee, Shenzhen Shennan Circuits Co., Ltd., for their leadership of the 2-30CN Terms and Definitions Committee that accomplished the translation and release of IPC-T-50G, Terms and Definitions for Interconnecting and Packaging Electronic Circuits.Bev Christian, Research In Motion Limited; and Karl Sauter, Sun Microsystems Inc., for their leadership of the 5-32e Electrochemical Migration Task Group that developed IPC-9691A, User Guide for the IPC-TM-650, Method 2.6.25, Conductive Anodic Filament (CAF) Resistance Test (Electrochemical Migration Testing).Greg Hurst, BAE Systems; and Frank Piccolo, Adeptron Technologies Corporation, for their leadership of the IPC-9261A, In-Process DPMO and Estimated Yield for PCAs Task Group.Doug Sober, Kaneka Texas Corporation, for his leadership of the 4-33 Halogen-Free Materials Subcommittee that developed IPC-WP/TR-584A, IPC White Paper and Technical Report on the Use of Halogenated Flame Retardants in Printed Circuit Boards and Assemblies.Werner Engelmaier, Engelmaier Associates, L.C.; and Reza Ghaffarian, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, for their leadership of the 6-10d SMT Attachment Reliability Task Group that developed IPC/JEDEC-9703, Testing Methodologies for Solder Joint Reliability in Shock Conditions.
Distinguished Committee Service awards were presented to 38 people:Richard Otte, PROMEX Industries, Inc.James Blanche, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center; Robert Cooke, NASA Johnson Space Center; Reza Ghaffarian, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Robert Humphrey, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center; Lisa Maciolek, Raytheon Company; Randy McNutt, Northrop Grumman; James Moffitt, Moffitt Consulting Services; Doug Rogers, Harris Corporation, GCSD; and Anthony Wong, NASA Johnson Space Center.Daniel Foster, STI Electronics, Inc.; Garry McGuire, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center; Teresa Rowe, AAI Corporation; and Patricia Scott, STI Electronics, Inc.Christopher Hunt, National Physical Laboratory and Graham Naisbitt, Gen3 Systems Limited.Christopher Hunt, National Physical Laboratory; Doug Leys, Nelco Products, Inc.; Graham Naisbitt, Gen3 Systems Limited; Mel Parrish, STI Electronics, Inc.; Joseph Russeau, Precision Analytical Laboratory, Inc.; Laura Turbini, Research In Motion Limited; and John Yeager, Keithley Instruments Inc. Patricia Amick, Boeing Aircraft & Missiles; Les Bogert, Bechtel Plant Machinery, Inc.; Frank Kimmey, PowerWave Technologies, Inc.; Tim Kruse, Plexus Corp.; Guy Ramsey, R & D Assembly; Peter Randklev, Benchmark Electronics Inc.; Sharon Ventress, U.S. Army Aviation & Missile Command; and Richard Vernon, Phoenix International Corp.Tracy Cai, Guangdong Shengyi Sci.Tech Co. Ltd.; Paul Ranken, Albemarle Corporation; Edward Sandor, Taconic Advanced Dielectric Division; and Larry Timberlake, Chemtura Corporation.Luke Garner, Intel Corporation; Keith Newman, Sun Microsystems Inc.; and Vasu Vasudevan, Intel Corporation.
For more information on the awards or recipients, contact Anna Garrido, IPC director of marketing and communications.