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SMTA offers lead-free workshop.


The Surface Mount Technology Association (SMTA SMTA Surface Mount Technology Association
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, Minneapolis, MN, www.smta.org) is offering a full-day workshop, Implementing Lead-free Assembly at Your Facility. Process expert and SMTA Founder's Award recipient Dr. Ronald C. Lasky, Indium indium (ĭn`dēəm), a metallic chemical element; symbol In; at. no. 49; at. wt. 114.82; m.p. 156.6°C;; b.p. about 2,080°C;; sp. gr. 7.31 at 20°C;; valence +1, +2, or +3.  Corp. senior technologist and Dartmouth College Dartmouth College, at Hanover, N.H.; coeducational; chartered 1769, opened 1770, the ninth colonial college (see Wheelock, Eleazar). Originally a men's college, Dartmouth began admitting women in 1972.  visiting professor, will deliver information on establishing a lead-free process.

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The workshop will focus on how to implement lead free. It covers everything from finishes, components, alloys This is a list of alloys for which an article exists in Wikipedia (or is proposed but not yet written).

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 and surface-mount processes to an actual example of a lead-free process implementation performed by Motorola that has been used to assemble more than one million cellular phones. The workshop finishes with a section on establishing a plan for lead-free implementation.

The workshop will be held at Asymtek in Carlsbad, CA, on June 24 and at Reptron Manufacturing in Tampa, FL, on November 4.

For more information, visit www.smta.org/education/academy/academy.cfm.
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Publication:Circuits Assembly
Date:Jun 1, 2004
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