RoHS Compliance Demo Site at M/A-COM, Inc., Lowell, MA
The Demonstration Site events will combine presentations by key company personnel with tours of pertinent process areas and quality assurance laboratories.
The Demonstration Site Program will feature topics such as:
- The roles of quality, R&D, process engineering, marketing and customer service in the RoHS compliance process;
- Alternative technologies to tin-lead solder, hexavalent chromium coatings, printed wire board finishes, and cadmium pigments in plastic components;
- Test methodologies to ensure that RoHS compliant products adhere to high quality and reliability standards;
- Global supply chain and inventory management;
- Process changes and equipment modifications;
- Marketing and communications with customers;
- Creating new business systems for parts labeling and numbering;
- Strategies for supporting aerospace and military customer specifications that restrict the use of RoHS compliant materials;
- The potential impact of the European Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive on US manufacturers.
M/A-COM, Inc.
M/A-COM, a business unit of Tyco Electronics, has more than 10 years of experience producing lead-free electronic modules using higher melting point RoHS compliant solders to stabilize modules for subsequent incorporation into electronic assemblies using tin-lead reflow. M/A-COM is using this expertise to produce RoHS compliant and compatible parts and assemblies for use throughout the industry. This Demonstration Site event will highlight M/A-COM’s conversion to lead-free solder for RoHS compliant product offerings and research and development on trivalent chromium coatings for aluminum enclosures. M/A-COM’s RoHS Oversight Team will share its experience in and strategies for:
- qualifying RoHS compliant components;
- managing RoHS implementation across multiple business units and manufacturing locations;
- designing data management systems to support supplier management and customer service functions;
- producing both compliant and standard tin-lead alloy products for military and aerospace industries with
specifications that prohibit the use of some commonly used RoHS compliant materials; and - ensuring that RoHS compliant products are “backwards compatible” with tin-lead solder processes.
WHEN: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 and Tuesday, June 6, 2006
TIME: 8:00 am to 12:30 pm
WHERE: 1011 Pawtucket Boulevard, Lowell, MA
COST: FREE for Massachusetts' companies, $25.00 for companies located outside Massachusetts
For registration information, please contact Brenda Wilson 978-934-3195, or email Brenda@turi.org