Not mention the skillset of reading the email at 4G speed.
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Sent: Wed Feb 04 12:54:19 2009
Subject: Re: [TN] Apex Expo
Ginny,
You have received some excellent input from some of the rest of the
Technet group, and I will throw in my two cents worth. Here is how IPC
has benefitted me personally as well as the company I work for.
I agree that you cannot really quantify a cost/benefit for IPC attendance,
although I would suggest looking at this from a cost avoidance standpoint.
Being able to steer around the icebergs is much better than recovering
after you hit.
For me, the primary advantage is networking. As I have often told my
leadership, I may not have the answers, but I generally know people who
do. And I met most of them at IPC. If I have a question I can't answer
on solder mask, call Dave Vaughan. Need to know something about fluxes,
Karen Tellefsen or Dave Scheiner. Conformal coating, Phil Kinner or John
Waryold. The list is quite long. You get to know who your counterparts
are in the industry, where their strong points are, and what they can
contribute. When you have a production line shut down, your company
starts to hemorrhage cash, big time. Due to my many fine colleagues in
the industry, willing to give of their experience, I have been able to
solve many of those situations quickly. The cost savings from a few of
those alone would be enough to fully fund my IPC involvement till I am as
old as some of Dewey's jokes.
Of course, networking can have a down side. I am in a silly project right
now cuz Dewey dragged me into it <grin>.
Second, since most of us have to manufacture to the standards that IPC
produces, an in depth knowledge of the standards can help you not step on
the land mines that the salesmen and contracts people keep throwing out.
You can quickly determine then what parts of the specs really affect your
portion of the market.
Third, you get access to a high amount of technical information in the
form of papers and presentations. I can tell you that reading the
technical paper is one thing, but is often quite different listening to
the presentation in person and getting to ask the author the questions you
want. I think many would agree that the really useful nuggets of
information take place in the question and answer sessions after the
paper. Much more dynamic.
I can also say that taking a leadership position in the IPC has helped out
in a number of instances. I had a subcontractor using a flux with a
questionable cleaning process, which I shot down. The subcontractor
wanted to know if I had any experiences in fluxes, cleaning , or
cleanliness assessment. I sent them a dozen of my papers, told them I had
another 20 when whey were done with those, and gave my history of
leadership in the IPC committees in these areas. The only response was
"Oh..." They wisely turned from a fight to asking for help. I had a
customer who was really pissed off and wondered if I knew the first thing
about conformal coating. Oh, lets see, chair the IPC Cleaning and Coating
committees, been part of the CC-830 group for 20 years, actively keep up
on 46058, wrote few sections in the Coating Handbook. The silence from
the other end was deafening. There is definitely a benefit in stomping
out a brush fire before it becomes a forest fire.
Finally, it is great for personal development. My first meeting was in
1985 and Susan Mansilla, already involved in IPC leadership, took me under
her wing and showed me around. I learned more in 5 days than I had in
years before. You really get to see how the industry works and interacts.
Involvement with IPC has made a difference for me between being a
knowledgeable goofball and an ordinary goofball (leave it alone Dewey, you
can hardly throw stones).
Doug Pauls
Rockwell Collins
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I am trying, for the 1st time, to convince my co. to send me. I have
never been. I feel there is value in going but it is difficult to
quantify.
There is resistance, primarily to the travel costs. There has to be some
clear benefit to going there, over top of local learning opportunities,
and I am being encouraged to look for classes at the local university and
tech schools to 'better myself', rather than looking to be sent to Vegas.
Any help you can give me to quantify the benefits of Apex?Genny
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