SMART Group

At the event IPCWorks 2005, held in Las Vegas, IPC - Association Connecting Electronics Industries, announced those individuals and companies honoured for their contribution to IPC and the electronics interconnect industry. Dr. Chris Hunt, National Physical Laboratory, on behalf of his team that included Alan Brewin and Ling Zou, proudly collected the award that recognised NPL's contribution to the development of IPC-9691, User Guide for the IPC-TM-650, Method 2.6.25, Conductive Anodic Filament (CAF), Resistance Test (Electrochemical Migration Testing).

Bob Willis - leadfreesoldering.com

Soldertec Global/Tin Technology has announced their Annual Lead-Free Solder Awards and Bob Willis proudly receives the 'Process Development Award', in recognition of his many achievements and enthusiasm in assisting industry in the preparation for the implementation of lead-free legislation. Bob coordinates the SMART Group activity for the EU project LEADOUT, currently Europe's largest funded research project.

Tom Perrett, Soldertec Global Marketing Manager commented, "Bob's enthusiasm is infectious. He gets things done and has contributed so much to enable our industry to meet the challenge of the impending legislation. His standing by his peers is second to none and we are delighted to announce his well deserved award".

Graham Naisbitt - Concoat Systems
Graham Naisbitt received his award for his contributions to IEC Technical Committee 91: Surface mounting technology. He is a pro-active UK delegate to this international committee and is the project leader for the work on the second edition of IEC 60068-2-69: Solderability testing of electronic components for surface mounting devices by the wetting balance method - lead free technology. He has also contributed to the drafting of the IEC 61189 series. BSI is delighted that the IEC has given Mr Naisbitt the recognition he deserves.

IEC stated that 'The 1906 Awards are given to persons who have made an exceptional contribution to the work of IEC. It is a special award since the persons who receive it are selected by their peers. The Chairman stated that members had the opportunity to recognize some very important people in the IEC World and it was his pleasure to make these awards on behalf of the Presidents of IEC and BEC.'