120 SMT Magazine • July 2016
1
SMTA West Penn Chapter
Plans Manufacturing Boot
Camp in August
DRS Technologies' Bill
Capen, who is also the
president of the SMTA
West Penn Chapter, talks
with I-Connect007's Patty
Goldman about their ex-
panded Chapter Expo &
Tech Forum, and their
plans of doing a boot camp in August.
2
IPC President John Mitchell
Discusses IPC's Footprint
in China
At the Capital Club in Beijing,
IPC's president John Mitch-
ell met with I-Connect007's
Edy Yu to discuss the cur-
rent activites of IPC China.
Some of the topics covered
included the growing China
membership, training, trade
shows and IPC China's stan-
dards development effort.
3
Soldering Experts on Hand at
SMTA's West Penn Chapter
Expo & Tech Forum
At the recent SMTA West
Penn Chapter Expo &
Tech Forum, Marilyn
Lawrence, founder and
president of Conformance
Technologies Inc., speaks
with I-Connect007's Patty
Goldman about the importance of solder training,
and how far it has come through the years.
4
SMTAI Conference Program
Finalized; Registration
Now Open
The program for
the SMTA Inter-
national confer-
ence, which is
scheduled to
take place Sep-
tember 25–29,
2016 at the Donald Stephens Convention Center
in Rosemont, Illinois, is now finalized and available
online, and registration is now open.
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