LA/OC SMTA NEWS LETTERLA/OC SMTA NEWS LETTER APRIL 2009

EVENT RESERVATIONS http://www.laocsmta.org/

reservation.php NO SHOWS WILL BE INVOICED

If you can not attend, please cancel your reservation by 12

Noon on Wednesday, prior to the meeting. See you there!

2009 Calendar of Events...Save the Date!

Date Time Event Location

Thursday, April 23rd,

2009

6:00pm Social Hour

LA/O.C. SMTA Chapter Dinner

Marie Calendar’s Anaheim,CA

Thursday, May 28th,

2009

6:00pm Social Hour

LA/O.C. SMTA Chapter Dinner

Marie Calendar’s Anaheim,CA

Monday, August 24th,

2009

11:00am Check - In

1:00pm Shot Gun

Start

10th Annual LA/OC SMTA & IPC CCA Golf

"Get Together

Old Ranch Country Club Seal Beach, CA

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

5:00pm Sign-In

LA/O.C. SMTA Chapter Dinner &

Tour Meeting TBD

Thursday, October

22nd, 2009

8:00am Sign-In

8:30am to 4:00pm Class

LA/O.C. SMTA Chapter Training Pro-

gram

Henkel Irvine, CA

APRIL 2009 Educational

& Networking Event

Speaker Karthik Vijayamadhavan

Indium Corporation

Topic Maximizing Print & Reflow Proc-

ess Windows for fine-pitch as-semblies - Solder Paste Attributes

DATE Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

AGENDA 6:00PM, Social Hour

7:00PM, Dinner/Presentation

MEETING FEES $25, Members

$35, Nonmembers

MENU Visit http://www.laocsmta.org

LOCATION Marie Calendar’s

540 N. Euclid Ave. Anaheim, CA 92801

May 2009 Meeting

Speaker TBD TBD

Topic TBD TBD

DATE Thursday, May 28th, 2009

AGENDA 6:00PM, Social Hour

7:00PM, Dinner/Presentation

MEETING FEES $25, Members

$35, Nonmembers

MENU Visit http://www.laocsmta.org

LOCATION Marie Calendar’s

540 N. Euclid Ave. Anaheim, CA 92801

LA/OC SMTA Chapter is Proud to Present… APRIL 2009 Presentation Dinner MeetingAPRIL 2009 Presentation Dinner Meeting

Maximizing Print & Reflow Process Windows for fine-pitch assemblies - Solder Paste Attributes PRESENTED BYPRESENTED BY

Karthik Vijayamadhavan, Area Manager, Indium CorporationKarthik Vijayamadhavan, Area Manager, Indium Corporation

Speaker Speaker ProfileProfile

Currently with Indium Corporation; Area Mgr - Responsi-ble for applications support in the West Coast; Over 8 yrs ex-perience in SMT; Masters Degree in Industrial Engineer-ing, State University o f N e w Y o r k -Binghamton; Bache-lors Degree in Me-chanical Engineering, University of Madras-India

In this issue:

Presidents Message 2

2008 9th Annual SMTA/CCA “California Dreamin” Golf ‘Get

Together’ Sponsors 3 - 4

Chapter Announcements & SMTAI 2009 INFO 5

2009 10th Annual SMTA/CCA Golf Tournament 6

SMTA Member Profile 7

Student Chapter Flyer 8

MentorNet Information 9

SMTA Membership Benefits and Free Membership Offer 10

Ads 11

Presentaion AbstractPresentaion Abstract

As pitches become tighter (0.4mm and below) to enable increasing miniaturization, the correspond-ing PCB pads & stencil apertures (and therefore area ratios) get smaller. This makes it more difficult to transfer consistent solder paste deposits from the stencil to the board. Inconsistent/minimal paste vol-umes causes head-in-pillow defects as well as clumpy solder joints during reflow. These problems could get compounded with halogen-free systems. From a ma-terial standpoint, solder paste flux attributes such as oxidation barrier, tackiness & slump resistance help achieve good consistent print deposits and eliminate defects such as uncoalesced solder and head-in-pillow joints. As stencil apertures become smaller, a robust solder paste becomes all-important in eliminat-ing SMT defects and maximizing the manufacturing process window.

APRIL 2009

Chapter Officers

President Kathy Palumbo CEO & Founder

Production Analysis & Learning Services, LLC

5 Homestead Drive Trabuco Canyon, CA

TEL: 949.713.7229 FAX: 949.713.7229

E-mail: palsrvs@palsrvs.com

Vice- President & Golf Tournament Chairman

Scott Penin, CSMTPE President & Co-Founder

Paradigm Manufacturing Partners 11562 Knott Avenue, Unit 17

Garden Grove, Ca. 92841 TEL: 714.889.7074 FAX: 714.889.7062

E-mail: spenin@paradigmmp.com

Secretary Michelle Ogihara

Sales Manager Seika Machinery, Inc.

3528 Torrance Blvd., Suite 100 Torrance, CA

TEL: 310.540.7310 E-mail: michelle@seikausa.com

Treasurer Riki Brown

QA Manager Golden West Technology

Fullerton, CA TEL: 714.738.3775 FAX: 714.738.7727

E-mail: rikigb@earthlink.net

Vice-President of Membership Ron Gonzales

V.P. Manufacturing REVCO Products, Inc.

7221 Acacia Avenue Garden Grove, CA 92841-3908

TEL: 714. 891.6688 Email:

ron@RevcoProducts.com

Vice-President of Technical Programs

Doug Dixon Electronics Marketing Director

Henkel Corporation 15350 Barranca Parkway Irvine, California 92618

TEL: 949.789.2517 Email:

doug.dixon@us.henkel.com

Hello Everyone,

Our February 26th, 2009 meeting was an excellent educational event with

over 40 attendees. The board would like to thank Matthew Holzmann, President of

Chirstopher Associates, for an outstanding presentation on “Process Control Through

Volumetric Automatic Optical Inspection”. We are all grateful that Matt agreed to

present on such a short notice, and for his continued support of our chapter. For those

of you who missed it we hope to have something posted on our archive web page in

the near future.

Our April 23rd, 2009 meeting will be presented by Karthik Vijayamadhavan

with Indium Corporation on “Maximizing Print & Reflow Process Windows for fine-

pitch assemblies - Solder Paste Attributes”. Thank you Karthik for your support of

the SMTA and our local chapter! To reserve your spot for this educational event

please go to http://www.laocsmta.org/reservation.php. We hope to see you there!

Our May 28th, 2009 meeting will be a Member Appreciation & 25th SMTA

Anniversary Celebration Night. We hope you can make it out for this very special

meeting.

For those of you who have not had a chance to make it to one of our meetings

we hope you will be able to do so in the near future. Any long standing SMTA mem-

ber will tell you that the biggest benefit of the SMTA membership is the networking

and one of the ways to work this benefit is attending meetings. Personally I have

gained many friends and clients through the SMTA and it is one of the reasons we are

successful and still in business today. The SMTA is here to support you and we

would love to be able to meet each of you in person. Let us help you make that mem-

bership work for you! Hope to see you soon!

Best Regards,

Kathy Palumbo

LA/OC SMTA PRESIDENT MESSAGELA/OC SMTA PRESIDENT MESSAGE

“The successful networkers I know, the ones receiving tons of referrals and feeling truly happy about themselves, continually put the other per-son's needs ahead of their own."- Bob Burg

"The way of the world is meeting people through other people." - Robert Kerrigan

2008 SMTA/CCA Golf Tournament Sponsors2008 SMTA/CCA Golf Tournament Sponsors

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Aegis Industrial Software Corp. http://www.aiscorp.com

AIRTECH http://www.airtechintl.com

AMTECH, Inc. http://www.amtechsolder.com/

APS WITTCO SALES http://www.advprecision.com

Burkle North America http://www.burkleusa.com

C.A. Picard, Inc. http://www.capicard.com

Chemcut http://www.chemcut.net

Christopher Associates http://www.christopherweb.com/

Cooper Hand Tools - Professional http://www.cooperindustries.com

DiversiTech Representatives, Inc. http://www.dtech-reps.com

EMS0007 http://www.pcb007.com/ems.aspx

eMT http://www.emtllc.com

Essex Electronics http://www.spsx.com

Express Manufacturing http://www.eminc.com

GC Aero, Inc. http://www.gcaero.com

General Monitors http://www.generalmonitors.com

Henkel Corp http://www.henkel.com/electronics

Heraeus, Inc http://www.heraeus.com

2008 SMTA/CCA Golf Tournament Sponsors2008 SMTA/CCA Golf Tournament Sponsors

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Omni Training Corp http://www.omnitraining.com

PA&LS, LLC http://www.palsrvs.com

P-Kay Metals http://www.pkaymetal.com

Practical Tools http://www.practicaltool.com

Prestige Metal Recyclers, Inc. http://www.prestigemetalrecyclers.com

Production Technology http://www.prod-tech.com

REStronics Southern California http://www.restronics.com

Revco Products, Inc. http://www.revcoproducts.com

Seika Machinery http://www.seikausa.com

SolderMask, Inc. http://www.soldermask.com

Surface Mount Distribution (SMD), Inc. http://www.smdinc.com/

Tapco Circuit Supply http://www.tapcocircuitsupply.com

Technic http://www.technic.com

Technical Devices Company http://www.technicaldev.com

TTM Technologies, Inc. http://www.ttmtech.com

Univar USA http://www.univarusa.com

YESTech, Inc. http://www.yestechinc.com

Chapter AnnouncementsChapter Announcements Thursday Night Meeting LocationThursday Night Meeting Location

Our April 23rd, 2009 meeting will be at Marie Calendar’s in Anaheim. In order to use this location on a regular basis it will require a change to our meeting day (from 3rd to 4th Thursday of the month). Please feel free to e-mail any of our board members with your input on this and/or any recommendations that you may have.

Marie Calendar’s 540 N. Euclid Ave.

Anaheim, CA 92801 http://www.mcpies.com

A map is available on our website home page at: http://www.laocsmta.org

We are now in the planning stages for our 10th annual 2009 LA/OC SMTA and IPC CCA Golf “Get To-gether”. It will be held at the same location as last year (Old Ranch Country Club) and is an event you don’t want to miss. The prices will be $250 for sponsorship, and player cost will be $145. The player cost has gone up $10 due to the country club raising their prices.

We all struggled on whether to hold the tournament this year considering the economy, but after a poll of past players and sponsors it was decided that we would have enough support for the event. Sponsorship benefits are listed at http://www.laocsmta.org/sponsors/index.html#SD , and event reservations can be made at http://www.laocsmta.org/Golf/golf.php.

This event funds our chapters’ operating costs for the year and has allowed us to donate funds to worth while causes such as the Charles Hutchins Educational Grant, Miller Children’s Hospital, and Make A Wish Foun-dation. Old Ranch Country club is a challenging golf course with impeccable greens that is not open to the general public. If you want a chance to play on a great course with some great company this is your opportunity. We hope you can make this event and if so early reservations allow us to plan better. Hope to see you at a future SMTA Event!

LA/OC SMTA & IPC CCA 10th Annual GOLF OutingLA/OC SMTA & IPC CCA 10th Annual GOLF Outing

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Ron Gonzales, LA/OC SMTA Chapter VP of MembershipRon Gonzales, LA/OC SMTA Chapter VP of Membership

LA/OC SMTA Member ProfileLA/OC SMTA Member Profile

My wife and I have been married for sixteen years. Elizabeth (Lisa) and my two sons,

Garrett age ten, and Alex age five along with our dog Buddy have lived in Yorba Linda for the

past twelve years.

Lisa operates her own business as a consultant to various companies throughout Los

Angeles, Orange, and Riverside counties certifying them to the ISO 9001:2000 and AS9100

quality standards.

Garrett is in the fourth grade and is very involved with JUSA soccer, Cub Scouts, and

the chess club. Alex is in pre-kindergarten and will be getting involved with JUSA soccer this

Fall. Garrett picked out our dog Buddy who is a Welsh Corgi/Pit mix from the Orange County

Animal shelter and he has turned out to be a fantastic dog for the family.

I myself am involved with Garrett’s soccer team and patrol with Cub Scouts. I also

serve with twenty other gentlemen at our church with a group called, “Men In Black” and we

work behind the scenes for the church and pastors.

When I’m not repairing or updating something for our home, I like to go bicycle riding,

fishing, swimming, bowling, or play football with friends. Last April, my wife and I got involved

with the American Lung Association, and ran up sixty-three flights of stairs at the Aeon build-

ing in Los Angeles. Lisa completed the challenge in eighteen minutes. It took me twenty-six

minutes and believe me, I was lucky it didn’t take me longer. Lisa is already training for this

year’s event, and I am thinking about it.

I have been involved with the family business for the past twenty-seven years at Revco

Products, Inc. a contract manufacturer in Garden Grove and hold the position of VP of Manu-

facturing. I have also been an active member of the SMTA since 2003. I really enjoyed being

a part of the LA/OC board last year as the VP of Technical Programs and look forward to this

year as the VP of Membership. One of the funnier moments was how I became elected to the

board. Kathy Palumbo nominated me last year and everyone else seemed to be in agreement

that it was okay for me to hold the position however; I hadn’t a clue what was going on and

ended up taking the position. I’m so glad that I did. The other six people on the board are

genuinely good people and extremely knowledgeable in their respective fields and it’s exciting

to see what I’ll learn next.

We hope you can come out to one of our future SMTA events and

have the opportunity to Meet Ron in person!!

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SMTA Corporate Members - CALL FOR MENTORS!

Please share this information with your colleagues!

The SMTA & MentorNet One-on-One E-Mentoring Program is a chance to make a big difference in the life of a student in as little as 15 minutes a week.

SMTA seeks members to be mentors who are: Science and engineering professionals

In our related industries Active, on leave, or retired

To match with protégés who are: Pursuing a professional future in the fields of engineering and science

At the undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral, or early career faculty (untenured) levels

Although mentors volunteer their time to benefit the protégé, they can also find a rewarding experience for themselves. “I hope [my student] is getting as much out of it as I am,” is how one MentorNet mentor de-

scribes the experience. More than 70% of mentors have recommended MentorNet's e-mentoring program to a friend or colleague!

Mentoring relationships last 8 months. Because mentors and students communicate entirely by email, they can choose a schedule that is convenient for both. In fact, 90% of our mentors feel that

How can you volunteer to be a mentor? It’s e-a-s-y! 1) Join the MentorNet Community at http://www.mentornet.net/join

2) Follow the One-on-One Mentoring Programs links to create a mentor profile. Be sure to indicate SMTA membership in your profile!

Since 1997, MentorNet has matched more than 22,500 pairs of protégés and mentors with exceptional re-

sults. We hope you will join them!

MentorNet’s sponsors include 3M Foundation, Adobe, Alcoa Foundation, Agilent Technologies, AT&T, Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM Corporation, Intel Foundation, Lockheed Martin Space Systems,

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Naval Research Laboratory, NVIDIA, Sandia National Laboratories, Texas Instruments, The MathWorks, and Thomson Reuters.

For more information, please go to http://www.smta.org/education/mentornet/mentornet.cfm or contact Karen, SMTA MentorNet Coordinator, at 952-920-7682 or Karen@smta.org.

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Volunteer Opportunities with the SMTA LA/OC Chapter!!

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If you would like to be part of a great event please contact our Vice President - Scott Penin

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