IPC announces fall webinar schedule.

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Providing convenient way to train employees, IPC Webinars are 1 hour long and focused on technical, practical, and management issues facing electronics industry. Sessions are based on technical papers from IPC APEX EXPO® 2011 and include Electronics Failure Analysis: Common Mechanisms and Techniques; Is Cleaning Critical to PoP Assemblies?; LED Testing and Reliability; Practical Steps to Effective Defluxing; Business Outlook for 2012; and Techniques in the Rework of High Thermal Mass Boards.



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IPC Announces Fall Webinar Schedule



Technical Education Online Brings Industry Experts to Companies

BANNOCKBURN, Ill., USA, - Offering a cost-effective and convenient way to train employees on timely industry topics, IPC - Association Connecting Electronics Industries® webinars deliver one hour of trusted education to the comfort of companies' conference rooms. Focused on technical, practical and management issues facing the electronics industry, these sessions are based on award-winning technical papers from IPC APEX EXPO® 2011. IPC's fall schedule of webinars in October, November and December 2011 include:

Electronics Failure Analysis: Common Mechanisms & Techniques

Cheryl Tulkoff, DfR Solutions

Thursday, October 20

Is Cleaning Critical to PoP Assemblies?

Umut Tosun, ZESTRON

Tuesday, November 8

LED Testing & Reliability

Diganta Das, Ph.D., CALCE

Wednesday, November 9

Practical Steps to Effective Defluxing

Barbara Kanegsberg, BFK Solutions LLC; Ed Kanegsberg, Ph.D., BFK Solutions LLC

Thursday, November 10

Component PWB Requirements Based on UL/IEC 60950-1 and IEC 62368-1

Crystal Vanderpan, Underwriters Laboratories; Thomas Burke, Underwriters Laboratories

Wednesday, November 16

Business Outlook for 2012

Walt Custer, Custer Consulting Group; Ed Henderson, Henderson Ventures; Sharon Starr, IPC

Tuesday, December 6

Techniques in the Rework of High Thermal Mass Boards

Bob Wetterman, BESTProto Inc.; Jim French, BEST Inc.

Tuesday, December 13

Counterfeit Detection Strategies: When to Do It/How to Do It

Cheryl Tulkoff, DfR Solutions

Thursday, December 15

Most webinars will run from 10:00 am to 11:00 am Central time. The registration fee for most webinars is $75 per login for IPC members and $100 per login for nonmembers. The Business Outlook webinar is $100 per login for IPC members and $150 per login for nonmembers and will run from 10:00 am to 11:30 am Central Time.

An organization can stretch its staff development budget by training multiple employees in a conference room equipped with a speakerphone and projector. For more information and to register, visit http://www.ipc.org/fall-webinars.

About IPC

IPC (www.IPC.org) is a global trade association based in Bannockburn, Ill., dedicated to the competitive excellence and financial success of its 3,000 member companies which represent all facets of the electronics industry, including design, printed board manufacturing, electronics assembly and test. As a member-driven organization and leading source for industry standards, training, market research and public policy advocacy, IPC supports programs to meet the needs of an estimated $1.85 trillion global electronics industry. IPC maintains additional offices in Taos, N.M.; Arlington, Va.; Stockholm, Sweden; Moscow, Russia; Bangalore, India; and Shanghai, Shenzhen and Beijing, China.

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