BANNOCKBURN, Ill., USA, October 19, 2011 ?a Offering a cost-effective and convenient way to train employees on timely industry topics, IPC C Association Connecting Electronics Industries webinars deliver one hour of trusted education to the comfort of companies?ˉ 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?ˉs 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 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.
