RoHS Summer School Webcast Series

July 14 Introduction to RoHS - Kay Nimmo, Tin Technology Whether you have a compliance plan in place or are just getting started, you will find this webcast a way to get up to speed on this still-evolving regulation. July 21 How to Comply with RoHS - Steve Andrews, Dept. of Trade & Industry, UK Covering a brief background to the Directive, the establishment of the Directive's maximum concentration values, the current list and status of the exempted applications, approaches for demonstrating compliance, impact on component suppliers, and the latest progress on transposition into Member State legislation, this webcast will provide the information needed to comply with the RoHS Directive. July 28 Standards Activity - IPC-1752 - Dieter Bergman - IPC, and Mark Friman - Texas Instruments This webcast will provide an update on Materials Declaration standards activity and will introduce the new IPC tool for exchanging information about product materials content. August 4 Implementing Materials Declaration - John Sharp - Teradyne As a participating member of the supply chain, the discussion leader of this webcast has an intimate knowledge of how to prepare meeting the EU legislation without the paranoia that is presently griping a global community. August 11 Test Methods for Determining RoHS Substances in Electronics - Markus Stutz - Motorola The United Kingdom's guidelines on RoHS Compliance and other compliance schemes recognize the need for materials declarations to be verified through laboratory analysis. This webcast will present the IEC's draft standard on test methods for regulated substances in electrical, electronic and electrotechnical products, discuss the test procedure flow and the test methods proposed. August 18 Implementing Electronic Materials Data Exchange - Eric Simmon & Art Griesser - NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology) Adding automation to materials declaration process will set, simplify, and streamline the materials declaration process. Click on this link for more information (www.ipc.org).