Weiner, Solberg inducted to IPC Hall of Fame.Bannockburn, IL -- Gene Weiner and Vern Solberg, who combined have spent more than 80 years in the electronics manufacturing industry, are the latest inductees to the IPC (1) (InterProcess Communication) The exchange of data between one program and another either within the same computer or over a network. It implies a protocol that guarantees a response to a request. Hall of Fame. The pair was feted at a luncheon last month during IPC's Apex trade show. At one time or another Weiner has chaired or participated in just about every facet of IPC, from strategy sessions to standards to lobbying to management and market research councils. He helped launch the Technical Marketing Research Council and IPC Printed Circuits Expo. He was vice chairman of IPC's AOI AOI Area Of Interest AOI Automated Optical Inspection AOI Art of Illusion (3D modeling software) AOI Associated Oregon Industries AOI Angle Of Incidence AOI Age of Innocence (David Hamilton book, also a band) task group and the Process Effects subcommittee. Outside of IPC, Wiener helped introduce the Asian PCB PCB: see polychlorinated biphenyl. PCB in full polychlorinated biphenyl Any of a class of highly stable organic compounds prepared by the reaction of chlorine with biphenyl, a two-ring compound. industry to the U.S., and vice versa. He is a former president of New England Laminates Co. (Nelco) and vice president of Dynachem (now part of Rohm and Haas Rohm and Haas Company (NYSE: ROH), a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based company, manufactures miscellaneous materials. A Fortune 500 Company, Rohm and Haas employs more than 17,000 people in 27 countries. The annual sales revenue of Rohm and Haas stands at about USD 8.2 billion. ), and was employee no. 4 of the legendary Shipley Co. While at MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratories in the late 1950s, Weiner passed up an invitation to join a colleague in a venture to repair and make replacement plug-in modules for IBM computers. That colleague was Ken Olson, and the venture later became Digital Equipment Corp. Solberg is best known for his tireless work on the industry standards for land patterns and chip packaging. Now a consultant to Tessera Inc. and others, Solberg has spent more than 30 years in the design and manufacture of electronics products. He holds several patents for IC packaging innovations, including the folded-flex 3-D package technology. Solberg made a name for himself as manager of design engineering and principle engineer at SCI (Scalable Coherent Interface) An IEEE standard for a high-speed bus that uses wire or fiber-optic cable. It can transfer data up to 1GBytes/sec. (hardware) SCI - 1. Scalable Coherent Interface. 2. UART. Systems in the 1980s and early '90s. It was during this time that he chaired the task group that produced the IPC-SM-782 land patterns standard. He also chaired the effort that produced the follow-up to that standard, IPC-7351. He received the SMTA SMTA Surface Mount Technology Association SMTA Standard Material Transfer Agreement SMTA Subordinate Message Transfer Agent SMTA Sewing Machine Trade Association (UK) SMTA Sekolah Menengah Tingkat Atas Founders Award in 1995, and has also won the IPC Presidents Award. The Hall is IPC's highest honor, given for advancement of the industry and exceptional merit. |
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