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Don writes: Dr. Ron, At the following link, I saw this: Q: What should I do with my inventory of non-RoHS compliant products after July 2006? A: As long as these products were placed on the EU market

Debbie Weil knows her stuff when it comes to Marcom. Her blog,BlogWrite ForCEOs, is a great resource. A recent posting, titled,Good blogging is good writing… with a twistlists a Top 7 list of

I will be leading a"journey"into the world ofB2BBlogging during anISBMwebinar on Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at: *10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.PDT *11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.MDT *12:00 p.m.

Folks, If there is anything that I hope my blog does is to generate useful debate about the happenings in the electronics industry to help us all prosper. I will also be the first to admit that I am

I received an e-mail from an organization calledEntertainment Engineeringthis morning. The gist of the message was that they wanted me to advertise in their e-newsletter. Though I disdain spam, I

Folks, People in the solder and leadfree world still do not understand the prime reason for RoHS: To make recycling easier. A recent article about Swatch supports this point. Apparently Swatch is

Folks, I’ve had a lot of questions on Cr VI. It has been hard to find a source of information on how Cr VI relates to zinc (?) chromate

Folks, I continue to tell myself that I have seen so much that nothing will ever surprise me. As you would expect, however, I continually get

Folks, I attended the IPC/Sodertec RoHS Conference in Malmo, Sweden on April 25-27. It was the last major European RoHS Conference before RoHS goes into effect on 1 July 2006. My workshop on Rapid

AsB2BMarcom professionals we are occasionally asked to present ourselves in writing, but more often we are asked to help our colleagues do the same. You may have a manager speaking to a professional

Folks, I’m a little later than I wanted to be on this topic, but I have been preparing for and an now attending and presenting at the IPC/SolderTech Malmo RoHS Workshop. The topic? China has

Folks, Some companies are already turning in their competitors who have not registered for WEEE. The article at the preceeding link expresses surprise and disappointment at this revelation. Wait

Folks, As Carl Sagan once told us, there are "billions and billions" of galaxies. Actually, astronomers estimate that there are 100 billion galaxies in the visible universe. That seems like

This quote is fromemarketer.com "There are significant differences in how Chinese Internet users behave online. The large number of users who surf from Internet cafes, for instance, are often

Folks, IPC/Soldertec is sponsoring the last major conference before RoHS goes into effect on 1 July 2006. It will be in Malmo, Sweden on April 25-27, 2006. Malmo is a short trip from Copenhagen. It

Folks, One would expect manfufacturing standards and auditing procedures for RoHS compliance to emerge at this time. Below is a note from David on this topic. Dave writes:

Folks, I am giving an updated version of my one day workshop on WEEE/RoHS compliant assembly at The Thayer School of Enginnering at Dartmouth on Wednesday, April 12, 2006 from 10AM to 4PM. It will be

Folks, My Indium colleague Jim Slattery, pointed out an interesting article in Electronic Design. After the article, some people sent in responses. A typical one follows: As a European engineer I am

Haibing writes: Question 1: My questions are centered around RoHS judgments. That is, how I can judge whether a contract manufacturer is RoHS compliant or not? Does a manufacturer need to have a

Folks, SMTA is sponsoring a mini-conference on "due diligence" for RoHS compliance. This April 18 event is being lead by Harvey Stone of the Goodbye Supply Chain. I was interested in the

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