Good morning all, We had a successful round of meetings at the IPC Midwest Expo in Schaumburg, IL, this last week. I hope that you had time and budget to attend. One of the action items that I have as chairman of the Cleaning and Coating General Committee is to determine if there is sufficient interest and volunteers to form two new task groups. The first would be a Task Group on Potting and Encapsulation. The IPC has groups devoted to conformal coating, but none really on potting and encapsulation. So, would you find a group on potting and encapsulation to be of benefit and would you be willing to be part of it. The second would be a Task Group on Component Cleanliness. We have groups that focus on bare board cleanliness and assembly cleanliness, but not components themselves. Again, would you find a group to be of benefit and would you be willing to be part of it. I realize, as do most of the IPC chairmen, that travel budgets are very tight or non-existant. If you volunteer, much of the work can be done on-line and by teleconferences. It might be nothing more than some good Technet exchanges. Let me know your thoughts on these matters. Doug Pauls Rockwell Collins --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 15.0 To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/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 847-615-7100 ext.2815 -----------------------------------------------------