. Conformal Coating - Why, What and Where? The Greater Boston Chapter of the IPC Designer's Council will hold its next meeting on Tuesday, June 8th at 6pm in the cafeteria of American Power Conversion (APC) in Billerica MA. Paul Gallo, Eastern Manager for dispensing equipment vendor Asymtek, will present on the Conformal Coating process. The talk will cover why conformal coating is needed, types avail- able, methods for applying it and considerations needed in design and production to ensure a quality product. Discussion will also touch on curing considerations and justification for capital investment. Paul is Asymtek's Eastern North America Area Manager, and has responsibility for Sales and Applications Engineering for the U.S. East Coast and most of Canada. He has been with Asymtek for over 11 years, and has been involved with a wide variety of fluid dispensing applications, including underfill, encap- sulation, chipbonder and solder paste, as well as shielding, die attach and LCD panel manufacturing. Asymtek is a world leader in fluid dispensing systems for IC and PCB production, with systems ranging from benchtop to fully automated and con- veyorized integrated systems. Agenda: 6:00 pm, Arrivals/Pizza, mtg fee $5/Member, $10/Non-member 6:45 Jeff Seeger - Chapter Update 7:00 Paul Gallo, Conformal Coatings Location: APC, 85 Rangeway Rd, Billerica Mass. This is off of Route 3 south of Lowell, ie between 95 & 495 Take exit 29 (route 129) and proceed East, that is: If you are traveling South turn right off the ramp, If you are traveling North turn left off the ramp, then proceed past Exxon station, then take the 2nd right, this is Rangeway Rd to Forest Ridge Office Park, proceed to #85, left to Building 2. RSVP's needed: Please RSVP to either Jeff Seeger [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] by Tuesday noontime, 8-June. We need this to plan the food order and appreciate your help. President's Note: As electronic complexity increases and equipment gets deployed in ever harsher places the surrounding environment becomes more important. The proper use of conformal coating will help keep equipment in service, or perhaps more importantly, performing consistently through cycles of difficult environmental swings. Gone are the days of large external spacings that would almost never grow a dendrite or inject low level leakage currents or change parasitics at very low margins. Keep your company's products working through a full life cycle by knowing what's needed downstream and how to specify coatings appropriate to your needs. This meeting will conclude this spring's meeting season. Over the summer we may try an outing, and we do have an IPC Learning Symposium to look forward to July 13-17 in Chelmsford at the Radisson Hotel. This show will include presentations, work- shops, as well as a Designer Certification workshop and test. Mission: The physical design of circuit boards is only getting more complex. Only the physical designer can hope to sort out the myriad interests that add up to a printed circuit board. This represents an opportunity to avoid competing with off- shore labor rates doing routine place and route. Add value! The Greater Boston Chapter of the IPC Designer's Council is trying to bring those stake holders, from every discipline, to show you their problems and solutions so you can add to your arsenal of knowledge. Your help and participation would be most appreciated, how about getting involved! Thanks and regards, Jeff Seeger, CTO, Applied CAD Knowledge Inc. President, Greater Boston Chapter, IPC Designer's Council --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DesignerCouncil Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF DesignerCouncil. To set a vacation stop for delivery of DesignerCouncil send: SET DesignerCouncil NOMAIL Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------