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SMTA Announces SMTA Boston
March 8, 2004 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
Minneapolis — The annual SMTA Boston educational program will be held May 4 through 6 at The Hynes Convention Center and feature full- and half-day Academy courses, special free events and other co-located offerings.
Academy courses include:
- Applying SPC and Six Sigma to the Surface Mount Manufacturing Line
- Surface Mount Technology Fundamentals
- Outsourcing Lead-free Assembly
- Troubleshooting the SMT Assembly Process
- Lead-free Rework
- Implementing Lead-free Assembly at Your Facility
- Implementing the Pin in Paste Process.
Three special free events include a panel discussion on America's Electronics Manufacturing and Assembly Initiative, which will cover the issues and potential solutions to the loss of American competitiveness to offshore competition. A second panel discussion on Surface Finishes: Issues Past, Present,and an Eye Towards Future, will examine issues such as black pad, tin whiskers, electromigration, and lead-free technology. Lastly, a lecture on Advanced SMT: Fine-pitch Assembly will outline general guidelines and focus particularly on techniques that can be used to eliminate print errors due to stencil and board interactions.
Co-located offerings include an ASTE session, Signal Switching in Functional Test, and SMTA Certification for SMT Processes and SMT Systems. All events will be held in conjunction with NEPCON East, Electro and Assembly East.
For more information on this event, visit www.smta.org/education/academy/academy.cfm#boston.
The SMTA membership is a network of professionals who build skills, share practical experience and develop solutions in electronic assembly technologies and related business operations. For more information, visit www.smta.org.