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SMTA Seeks Participants for Medical Electronics Symposium
November 3, 2003 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
Minneapolis — The SMTA announces plans for a Medical Electronics Symposium.
This national event will be held May 19 through 20, 2004, at the Marriott Minneapolis Airport Hotel in Bloomington, Minn., and the conference chairman is Jeff Kennedy of Manufacturers Services Ltd. The SMTA is seeking professionals in the medical electronics field to participate in the launch of this new conference.
Once viewed as an orphan, the resilient medical electronics field (now approaching $50 billion) is a high-tech manufacturing industry still based primarily in the United States. Medical electronics is gaining attention as electronic content and value increase, and the products applicable for addressing at this event range from complex, powerful and expensive diagnostic machines to simple, mass-produced, use-once sensors.
This conference will explore medical electronic devices, components, packaging and assembly for major categories of medical electronics, including diagnostics, imaging, monitoring, life support, implants, personal monitor/delivery devices, and disposable electronics. While each industry segment has different assembly needs and ranging volumes, SMTA will explore and compare the differences and similarities.
The once-conservative medical electronics field is now pushing the state of electronics industry and embracing emerging technologies. Areas of "cross-fertilization" are expected in new techniques that can be applied, but also principles from mainstream SMT can be adopted. Future advances in semiconductors, optoelectronics, MEMS and Nanotechnology will also apply.
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.