Following our successful two day conference last year, that celebrated 25 years of the SMART Group’s existence, we proudly announce that after a busy year of events, we will celebrate our 26th anniversary with an equally exciting two day event.

The aim and thrust of this year’s conference is to address many of the issues facing our industry today. Despite some of the pessimism the electronics industry here has much still to offer our global customers.

As an example our Vice Chair, Graham Naisbitt, quoted a recent statement issued by the Chinese Government that they were concerned that their industry has a poor reputation for quality and reliability. “They sponsored a delegation to come to the UK, through ITRI, International Tin Research Institute in St Albans, where a number of persons would make presentations to them on this topic. In particular I was thankful that they consider the UK is still the centre to develop products that have high quality and high reliability.
“Shame only that we no longer seemingly have the capacity to produce in large quantities, perhaps that will change”.

This year’s conference will look at the supply chain, inform about the latest research projects, explore whether manufacturing standards make things better. Other topics cover production control, the importance of chemistry, what’s happening with RoHS and REACH, why do we clean when we have No Clean and what are tin whiskers, all will be explained. The sessions will also cover component tinning and re-tinning good practice, silver vs sulphur – can conformal coating help?

We are lining up an eminent world class team for this event to be held on 6th & 7th of October. The venue is again The Oxfordshire GC Business Centre.

The full programme of presentations will be announced shortly with a list of exhibitors.

For more information contact:
Tony Gordon, SMART Group Secretary,
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Mike Judd, SMART Group PR Director
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