Upcoming Events

Cheryl Tulkoff will be visiting companies in Germany in September. If you and your colleagues are interested in a visit and possibly a presentation on a range of technical topics, please contact Tammy Smittenaar.

Cheryl Tulkoff will be presenting "Managing Reliability Expectations and Warranty Costs in Medical Electronics" at the Electronics System Integration Technology Conference. For more information on this topic or to arrange a meeting during the conference, please contact Cheryl Tulkoff.

Cheryl Tulkoff and Paul Parker of SolarBridge will be presenting "Reliability Challenges for Solar Microinverters" at this critical IEEE workshop. For more information on DfR services for the photovoltaic (PV) inverter industry and their customers, please contact Cheryl Tulkoff.

Jim McLeish will be attending the PERM meeting. For more information or to arrange a meeting during the conference, contact Jim McLeish.

Jim McLeish will be visiting companies in Indiana. If you and your colleagues are interested in a visit and possibly a presentation on a range of technical topics, please contact Tammy Smittenaar.

Craig Hillman will be visiting companies in Connecticut. If you and your colleagues are interested in a visit and possibly a presentation on a range of technical topics, please contact Tammy Smittenaar.

Cheryl Tulkoff and Craig Hillman will be visiting companies in the Los Angeles area. If you and your colleagues are interested in a visit and possibly a presentation on a range of technical topics, please contact Tammy Smittenaar.

Craig Hillman will be presenting "Design for Reliability: The Next Generation" at the IPC Midwest Conference. For more information or to arrange a meeting during the conference, please contact Craig Hillman.

Nathan Blattau will present "Tensile Ratcheting in Solder Bumps" at the Fall Symposium of the IMAPS Chesapeake Chapter. For more information, please contact Nathan Blattau.

DfR Solutions, in collaboration with Ops Ala Carte, is proud to announce that the DfX training session will be held in Austin, Texas, in October. This one-of-a-kind collaborative effort will provide designers, reliability personnel, and engineering management with tools on how to meet time-to-market deadlines and reduce warranty issues. Areas to be covered include Design for Reliability, Design for Manufacturability, and Design for Testability, just to name a few. For a full schedule of courses and information on registration, please click here or contact Tammy Smittenaar.

Craig Hillman and Randy Kong will be visiting companies in the Seattle area. If you and your colleagues are interested in a visit and possibly a presentation on a range of technical topics, please contact Tammy Smittenaar.

Ed Wyrwas has been invited to present to the IEC Technical Committee regarding his work on physics-of-failure based reliability and durability modeling of current and future generations of integrated circuits. For more information on DfR's ability to eliminate the current empirical approach to reliability prediction, contact Ed Wyrwas.

Ed Wyrwas and Nathan Blattau will present "Integrated Circuit Reliability Simulation in Space Environments" at the Space Simulation Conference. For more information on this topic or to arrange a meeting during the conference, please contact Nathan Blattau.

DfR Solutions will be presenting three workshops at the SMTAI. 1) True Design for Reliability-What Is and What Is Not DfR (Sunday, October 24 at 1:30pm) Craig Hillman, Ph.D.; 2) The Reality of Pb-Free Reliability (Monday, October 25 at 1:30pm) Randy Schueller, Ph.D.; 3) Contamination and Cleanliness: Developing Practical Responses to a Challenging Problem (Monday, October 25 at 1:30pm) Craig Hillman, Ph.D.

Randy Schueller and Jim McLeish will be visiting companies in the Tampa, FL, Orlando, FL and Melbourne, FL areas. If you and your colleagues are interested in a visit and possibly a presentation on a range of technical topics, please contact Tammy Smittenaar.

Jim McLeish will be presenting "Overview of the New DoD Reliability Revitalization Initiatives," at the AIMS conference. For more information or to arrange a meeting during the conference, please contact Jim McLeish.

Craig Hillman and Walt Tomczykowski of ARINC will be presenting "Can the DoD Rent/Borrow the Design? A New Method to Mitigate the Impact of DMSMS and Improve Reliability" at the Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages Conference. For more information or to arrange a meeting during the conference, please contact Craig Hillman.

DfR Solutions will be presenting two workshops at the IMAPS Conference: 1) "Understanding Failure and Root-Cause Analysis in Pb-Free Electronics" (Sunday, October 31) Greg Caswell; and 2) "An Electronics Expert Reliability Analysis Tool" (Monday, November 1) Nathan Blattau and Craig Hillman. Greg Caswell will also be presenting "Counterfeit Detection Strategies: When to Do It / How to Do It" in the technical program (Tuesday, November 2).

DfR Solutions will be presenting on a number of topics at this joint industry conference. Randy Schueller will provide updates on sulfur attack of silver and other board platings. Seth Binfield will present on recent work on flux chemistry and voiding, performed in collaboration with Jeannette Plante of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Randy Kong will be visiting companies in China and Taiwan in December. If you and your colleagues are interested in a visit and possibly a presentation on a range of technical topics, please contact Tammy Smittenaar.

Randy Kong will be presenting Manufacturing and Reliability Challenges with QFN Packaging at this joint Hong Kong Printed Circuit Association and IPC event. For more information or to arrange a meeting during the conference, please contact Randy Kong.

Craig Hillman has been invited to give a half-day workshop on Tin Whisker Prediction and a half-day workshop on Tin Whisker Mitigation and Risk Assessment at this unique industry conference focused on practical methodologies. For more information or to arrange a meeting during the conference, please contact Craig Hillman.