I did not go this year to Designers Summit but I have gone in past
years. The combination of the DS with APEX and EXPO brings together
multiple facets of the industry not just the design portion.
By attending papers on lead-free and BGA assembly, I am able to
understand more of the whys I need to apply that rule that makes the
board difficult to route.
The last time I went to PCBWest it was more for "training" on individual
procedures to do a task. I went to PCBWest two years in a row and found
a lot of repeated sessions. This is good if you cannot attend each year
but bad to try and justify the cost. I will add that I no longer layout
boards as my primary function and the people in my company that do
layout boards find PCBWest to be well worth the money.
Attending the IPC Designers Summits at APEX allowed me to interact with
the entire industry not just what happens in layout.
Both have the pluses and minuses so the attendee must decide what each
conference has to offer in the way of speakers, training, trade show
participants and extras. By extras, I don't mean the social events but
the opportunities to tour a fabrication or assembly facility or have a
panel discussion on what makes boards hard to build and what a designer
can do to take cost out of a board.
Okay time to go back to work,
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Karen McConnell
Senior Member Engineering Staff - Electronics / PWB
Lockheed Martin - Engineering Process Improvement Center
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Since I have never been there,
what made it FAR superior?
Jack
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For my $0.02 ... Having attended the APEX/Designers Summit for the first
time this year, I must admit it is a FAR superior event to PCB West. And
I say that as one whose employment is in Silicon Valley, home of PCB
West.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jack C. Olson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 4:00 PM
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Subject: [DC] Is there anybody out there?
I just got an update from the IPC conference, which
seemed to be glowing with optimism, but one statistic
kinda jumped out at me:
Anaheim, CA- The IPC Printed Circuits Expo and
APEX show ended on Thursday with an estimated
attendance of approximately 1,000 visitors.
1000 visitors?
Did someone move a decimal point or accidentally delete
a zero or something?
This show combines APEX and IPC. Doesn't that include
designers AND Fabrication people AND assembly people?
Sheesh, there's gotta be a thousand people related to this industry
within WALKING distance of Anaheim!
Well, maybe that means a whole heckuva lot of people
waited for the PCB Design Conference next week in
Santa Clara, I sure hope so!
(That's where I'll be this time next week... can't wait!)
I know I'm not the only one who has a limited travel budget, and I can't
attend everything that sounds worthwhile. (Sometimes you just gotta
choose, ya know what I mean?) But it sure would be easier if we could
ease up on the splintering and division between us.
Do we really need TWO conferences?
Maybe its time we went back to the good old days, when
we had a PCB Design Conference for a couple of days and
you could get your IPC CID training and have a software
User Group meeting ALL AT THE SAME PLACE.
whaddya think?
huh?
yeah.
see JaxHead at
http://theolsons.frontdoor.biz/Jack/JaxHead.htm
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