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News Release from: Reed Exhibitions (UK)
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New criteria for measuring production
defects
The Smart Group, supported by the Department of Trade and Industry, has launched an initiative for benchmarking parts per million (ppm) failures in electronics manufacturing.
The Smart Group, supported by the Department of Trade and Industry, has launched an initiative for benchmarking parts per million (ppm) failures in electronics manufacturing Hosted by the Nepcon electronics exhibition, the launch brought together a number of leading manufacturing companies interested in participating in the scheme
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The project aims to provide the electronics industry with a monthly average parts per million defect level for stencil printing, component placement, reflow and wave soldering.
This will enable companies to compare process yields and benchmark their process against other similar products or companies, free of charge.
"We are pleased to see so much support for such an important initiative that will benefit our industry", commented Justin Tadman, Nepcon's Exhibition Director.
"It demonstrates a great commitment to achieving the very highest global manufacturing standards".
The concept of the scheme is that criteria for measuring defects is agreed by participating companies, and data is then confidentially submitted to the Smart Group, which will administer the project and pool the results.
These will then be made available on a dedicated website, at www.ppm-monitoring.com.
A special seminar session has been arranged to present the initial findings at this year's Nepcon exhibition, which runs from 1st to 3rd October at Birmingham's NEC.
Companies participating in the survey will benefit from additional incentives such as more detailed results.
It is hoped that following initiation of the project, it will be expanded to include many more companies and monitoring of additional process technologies.
The PPM Project Co-ordinator is Bob Willis.
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