KIC to present at Indium‘s Lead-Free QuickStart Seminar in Nuremburg

(San Diego, CA -- June 9, 2004) : KIC, the leader of thermal process development and control software and winner of multiple VISION awards, announces that it will be a co-presenter at the Indium Pb-Free QuickStart Seminar. Their topic covered will be: How to Implement Lead-Free Assembly at Your Factory with Indium Corp. and Motorola presenting as well.

The seminar is designed for manufacturing management and is a management-level lead-free implementation seminar that will be held June 16 at the Hilton Nuremburg in Nuremburg, Germany. Scheduled from 7 a.m. until 5:45 p.m., the seminar is designed to "QuickStart" the lead-free learning curve.

While there are numerous lead-free assembly workshops, this may be the only one that focuses on the "how to" of implementing lead-free. It covers all the key issues, including PWB finishes, components, alloys and SMT processes. It also reviews an actual implementation of a lead-free process, performed by Motorola that has been used to assemble more than five million cellular phones to date. The workshop will finish with a section on establishing individual lead-free implementation plans.

Cost is Euro195 per person, and the agenda will include an introduction and overview, and presentations by Dr. Ning-Cheng Lee of Indium Corp., Mr. Peru of ACB, Dr. Manfred Suppa of Peters, Angus Westwater of Rohm, Mary Beth Allen of KIC, Eddie Hernandez of Hewlett Packard, Gerjan Diepstraten of Vitronics-Soltec, Ross Berntson of Indium Corp., Hans-Juergen Albrecht of Siemens, Mark Krmpotich of Scientific Atlanta and Vahid Goudarzi of Motorola.

Seminar topics include: The state of lead-free legislation, marketing and worldwide implementation; the current alloy systems in use, and why and how they were chosen; which PWB finishes are preferred in lead-free assembly; concerns with components and the status of lead-free components in the industry; best practices for setting up stencil printing, placement, inspection, reflow and wave; the effect of lead-free manufacturing on the reflow process, achieving and maintaining the tight process window; how to perform designed experiments (DOE) to optimize the lead-free process; how to establish a statistical process control program; and more.

Register now online at www.kicthermal.com; via e-mail at PbFreeSeminar@indium.com; or by phone at +44(0)1908 580400. Attendees are responsible for making their own hotel reservations. To make a reservation, contact the hotel directly via their Web site or call Hilton Nuremberg at 49(911)402 90.

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