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Design Chain Associates, EPTAC to Present Seminars on Compliance with Lead-free Directives
January 21, 2004 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
Boston — Design Chain Associates LLC, the leading design chain consulting firm, and EPTAC, the leading manufacturing training and consulting firm, have jointly developed a half-day Introduction to Lead-free Seminar.
The seminars will illustrate how lead-free will impact many of your business processes and the areas that will need to be addressed to be successful.
Key business issues covered in the seminar include:
- Overview: The Big Picture
- Lead-free: Legislation, Materials
- Business Environment: Cost of Non-Conformance, Materials Availability, Competitors
- Business Processes: New Product Development, Contracts, Product Lifecycle, Outsourcing Procurement, Logistics
- Resources: Design Engineers, Manufacturing Engineers, Equipment and Material Suppliers
- Equipment: Engineering, Manufacturing, Facilities, Operational Cost, Availability
- Design: Design for Disassembly (recycling), Reliability Impact, Product Design Documentation
- Manufacturing Process: Equipment and Maintenance, Wave Solder Parameters, Oven Thermal Profiling
- Materials: Components, Boards, Flux, Solder, Tools, Solvents, Availability
Executive, engineering, procurement operations and manufacturing management, as well as procurement professionals; design, manufacturing, QA/reliability and component engineers; compliance officers; and facilities management are the targeted audience for these seminars.
Design Chain Associates, LLC is a consulting firm that helps electronics OEMs reduce time-to-market, ramp-to-volume time, and product cost by focusing on supply chain robustness and risk mitigation. For more information, visit www.designchainassociates.com.
EPTAC Corp. has been providing companies with the very latest in electronics production training since 1987. For more information, visit www.eptac.com.