. Rigid-Flex Circuitry The Greater Boston Chapter of the IPC Designer's Council will hold its next meeting on Tuesday, Jan 12th at 6pm. Teledyne Electronic Technologies of Hudson NH, a rigid-flex PWB manufacturer, will be sending two presenters: Mike Collier, Applications Engineer, will present "Design and Manufacture of Rigid Flex Circuitry", including, - Advantages of Rigid/Flex - Design Rules and Considerations - Available Materials w/Properties Comparisons - Electrical and Mechanical requirements Jim Mahoney, Quick Turn Manager, will present "Quick Turn Prototyping of Rigid/Flex". This should be a very interesting realm, the possibilities presented by the Rigid/Flex world have always caught this designer's eye. When one adds up reduced component count, simplified assembly, and especially improved reliability (from reduced connector junctions) the uses for this tech- nology look compelling. Let's see what the experts have to say! Agenda: 6:00 pm, Arrivals and Pizza, $5 contribution 6:45 Jeff Seeger - Chapter Update 7:00 Mike Collier, Design and Mfg of Rigid/Flex 8:00 Jim Mahoney, Quick-turn Prototyping for Rigid/Flex Directions: Lockheed/Loral in Lexington MA. This facility is located off route 128 at the route 2A/Concord/Hanscom exit. Proceed West 200 yds, turn Left onto Forbes Road. The meeting is in the first building on the left (after the guard shack). Mission: Design is not called "do" for a reason. To design in today's PWB environment implies adding value while giving electronics a physically manifestable form. In order to add value one must have a full grasp of the issues and stakeholders, often helping to mediate compromises among those interest groups. The Greater Boston Chapter of the IPC Designer's Council is trying to bring those stakeholders, 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 welcome. Non members are welcome at the meetings for now, but expect some pressure to join... Non-members should RSVP please, reply/sender mailto: [log in to unmask] Thanks, regards, and Happy Y2K-1! -- Jeff Seeger Applied CAD Knowledge Inc Chief Technical Officer Tyngsboro, MA 01879 jseeger "at" appliedcad "dot" com 978 649 9800 ################################################################ TechNet E-Mail Forum 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's web site (http://www.ipc.org) "On-Line Services" section for additional information. For technical support contact Hugo Scaramuzza at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.312 ################################################################