, HVRFlex - a different approach to rigid-flex The Greater Boston Chapter of the IPC Designer's Council will hold its next meeting on Tuesday, February 15th. Please note the new meeting location, and that that a "door prize" will be given away at the end of the talk. Topic and Speaker: Joe Thoman, VP of Operations with Eastern Manufacturing Corp. (EMC) of Amesbury, MA, will speak on their process for making rigid-flex boards from standard FR4 materials. Called "High Volume Rigid Flex", this approach eliminates many of the more difficult aspects of rigid-flex board construction. Learn of the applications and design and manufacturing envelope of the process. Agenda: Please note there is a $15 meeting fee for members, $20 for non-members. Pizza/soft drinks will be served. 6:00 Arrivals and Pizza 6:45 Chapter Business 7:00 Joe Thoman - HVRFlex Location/Directions: The Best Western TLC Hotel in Waltham is located at exit 27A off route 95/128, proceed east on Totten Pond Rd and the hotel is on the left. RSVP's needed: Please RSVP by sending an email to [log in to unmask] with the subject "RSVP IPC/DC" by Tuesday morning, Feb. 8th. Please treat this as a commitment to attend. Door Prize: A promotional copy of AutoCAD LT 98 will be given to a lucky RSVP'ed attendee at the end of the meeting. You must be there to accept if you win. This fully functional boxed and licen- sed copy of AutoCAD comes courtesy of member Kip Degen. President's Note: While we are very grateful to Lockheed for many years of use of their cafeteria, that space is no longer available to us. Therefore we've arranged for a hotel type of situation, which we hope will suit the group for some time to come. While we've kept the meeting costs as low as possible, we do need to work with RSVP's to make sure we have enough space and food. Here's hoping the group can work with the RSVP commitment in a very much "last minute" design world. I am personally very grateful for much help from the steering committee, most notably Judy Horn, in finding this reasonably priced meeting venue. It has made for a difficult season, in needing to find a "new home" for the group. I hope you will all work with me to make the new format work out, and allow a fresh season of informative meetings to proceed. Mission: Design is not called "do" for a reason. Done properly, the design process is a creative problem solving discipline. To address the packaging needs of electronics for today and to- morrow, the physical designer needs an avenue to get exposed and familiar with many different techniques and technologies. The Greater Boston Chapter of the IPC Designer's Council is committed to presenting stake holders from every aspect of the packaging realm. Our hope is to help you gain insight and un- derstanding of the many possibilities in solving core problems. Your help and participation are most welcome. Thanks and regards, -- Jeff Seeger Applied CAD Knowledge Inc Chief Technical Officer Tyngsboro, MA 01879 jseeger "at" appliedcad "dot" com 978 649 9800 ############################################################## TechNet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ############################################################## To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TECHNET <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TECHNET ############################################################## Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information. If you need assistance - contact Gayatri Sardeshpande at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5365 ##############################################################