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Lead-Free Watch: Countdown to July 1, 2006 was a monthly series of articles focused on preparing electronics manufacturers for the RoHS deadline of July 1, 2006. Co-produced by UP Media Group and iNEMI, the series ran from January 2005 through July 2006. These articles originally appeared in Circuits Assembly and Printed Circuit Design & Manufacture (PCD&M) magazines, and appear here with the permission of UP Media Group.
NOTE: All files are downloadable PDFs.
2005
January: The Environmental Mandate
by Robert C. Pfahl, Jr., iNEMI
February: 10 Steps Towards RoHS Directive Compliance
by Holly Evans, Strategic Counsel, LLC, and Joe Johnson, Microsoft
March: Transitioning to Lead-Free Assemblies
by Carol Handwerker, NIST
April: Preparing for the WEEE Directive
by Kenneth Rivlin, Jean-Philippe Brisson and David Wharwood, Allen & Overy
May: Implementing Lead-Free Wave Soldering
by Denis Barbini, Vitronics Soltec, and Paul Wang, Microsoft Corporation
June: Tracking Material Composition Data
by Richard Kubin, E2open, and Nancy Bolinger, Lenovo International
July: Can Existing Tools Survive Pb-Free Soldering?
by Jasbir Bath, Solectron Corporation
August: Is The Supply Chain Ready for RoHS?
by George Galyon and Glenn Sellers, IBM, and Ron Gedney, iNEMI consultant
September: Pb-Free Standards Update
by Thomas D. (Tom) Newton, David W. Bergman and Jack Crawford, IPC
October: The Relationship of Components, Alloys and Fluxes, Part 1
by Dr. Ning-Cheng Lee, Indium Corporation
November: The Relationship of Components, Alloys and Fluxes, Part 2
by Dr. Ning-Cheng Lee, Indium Corporation
December: Tin Whisker Management Guidelines, Part 1
by Joe Smetana, Alcatel, and Ron Gedney, iNEMI consultant
2006
January: Tin Whisker Management Guidelines, Part 2
by Joe Smetana, Alcatel, and Ron Gedney, iNEMI consultant
Tables
February: Implementing RoHS in the U.K.
by Steven Andrews, Department of Trade & Industry
Figure 1: Decision tree
Figure 2: Compliance process (flow chart)
March: High-Complexity, Thermally Challenging Pb-Free Product Recommendations
by Joe Smetana, Alcatel, and Thilo Sack, Celestica Inc.
April: A Common Solution for Materials Declaration
by Richard Kubin, E2open
May: China's Evolving RoHS Legal Regime
by Richard (Tad) Ferris and Dr. Hongjun Zhang, Holland & Knight LLP
June: One Month to Go: Are We Ready?
by Bob Pfahl, iNEMI, and Kurt Goldsmith, Intel Corporation
July: What's Next on the Environmental Front
by Joe Johnson, Cisco Systems, and Bob Pfahl, iNEMI