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LA/OC SMTA NEWS LETTERLA/OC SMTA NEWS LETTER October 2011
October 2011 Educational
& Networking Event
Speaker Dr. Nick Gautier Project Scientist
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Topic Hunting for Exoplanets -
The Kepler Mission
DATE Thursday, October 2oth, 2011
AGENDA
6:00PM, Social Hour 7:00PM, Dinner/Presentation
MEETING FEES
$25, Members $35, Non-Members
MENU
Visit http://www.laocsmta.org
LOCATION JT Schmid's Restaurant & Brewery
2610 E. Katella Avenue Anaheim, California 92806
714.634.9200
LA/OC SMTA Chapter is Proud to Present…
October 2011 Chapter Dinner Meeting Hunting for Exoplanets - The Kepler Mission
PRESENTED BY Dr. Nick Gautier, Project Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
November 2011 LA/OC SMTA Expo
& Tech Forum
DATE Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
Show Hours 10:00AM to 3:00PM
MEETING FEES Free Admission to All Attendees
Free Technical Sessions to All Attendees Free Lunch to All Attendees
LOCATION The Grand Event Center
4101 E. Willow St. Long Beach, CA 90815
P. 562.426.0555 | F. 562.426.6616 http://choura.us/venues/grand
Registration http://www.smta.org/expos/#laoc
See Page 5 for Additional Event Info
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!
PRESENTATION AB-STRACT
Since the 1989 discovery of the first exoplanet, a planet orbit-ing a star other than our Sun, six hundred eighty-five have been discovered (as of 19 September 2011), with more being announced daily. Kepler, NASA's mission to find potentially habitable Earth-size exoplanets, is making major contributions to exoplanet exploration, and is poised to double or tri-ple the number known. This talk will ex-plain how the Kepler mis-sion finds exoplanets and verifies that they are real. Current Kepler results will be shown, along with a description of Kepler's progress toward finding potential ly habitable worlds.
SPEAKER PROFILE Dr. Nick Gautier is the Project Scientist for the Kepler Mission. He received a B.S. in Physics from the University of Michigan in 1970 and a PhD in Astronomy from the University of Arizona in 1978. He has been at JPL since 1982, when he came to work on the Infra-Red Astronomy Satellite (IRAS) as a National Research Council Post Doctoral Fellow. Since then he has worked on the Wide Field InfraRed Explorer, (WIRE), the Spitzer Space Tele-scope, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), and Ke-pler. He has developed infrared cameras and spectrometers for the Palomar 200 inch telescope, and is an expert in infrared in-strumentation, dust in the interstellar medium, and searching for exoplanets. This presentation is part of the JPL Science 101 series, spon-sored by the JPL Science Division (32), which presents recent scientific developments to JPL staff at a level accessible to the non-scientist. JPL Science 101 encourages JPL researchers to describe the exciting developments and future directions in their fields, with the aim of introducing the entire JPL community to the science that lies at the core of JPL's mission. Our Chapter is fortunate to have JPL as a corporate member with active chapter members who assisted with securing this presen-tation. We are delighted that JPL's research Scientist, Dr. Nick Gautier, has agreed to provide this presentation to our chapter members (which was only just recently released to JPL staff). Whether you enjoyed our JPL tour last November, or missed out on the tour, you don't want to miss this meeting. We are confi-dent it will be worth your time.
2011/2012 Calendar of Events...Save the Date!
Date Time Event Location
Thursday, October
20th, 2011
6pm Social Hour
LA/OC SMTA Chapter Dinner
JT Schmid's Anaheim, CA
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
10am to 3pm LA/OC SMTA
1st Annual Expo & Tech Forum
The Grand Event Center
Long Beach, CA
Friday, December 9th, 2011
6pm Social Hour
LA/OC SMTA Annual Holiday
Celebration
The Grand Event Center
Long Beach, CA
Thursday, January
19th, 2012
8:30am Check In 9am to 4:30pm
Class
LA/OC SMTA Chapter Training
Program
Henkel Irvine, CA
Sunday, February
26th, 2012
TBD - Check In TBD - Shot Gun
Start
IPC APEX & LA/OC SMTA Golf
Outing
Coronado Golf Course
San Diego, CA
In this issue: Presidents Message 2
2011 12th Annual SMTA/CCA “California Dreamin” Golf ‘Get
Together’ Sponsors 3 - 4
Expo & Tech Forum Show Details 5
Expo & Tech Forum Vendors 6 - 7
SMTA Student Chapter Flyer 8
SMTA MentorNet Information 9
SMTA Membership Benefits 10
ADS, Corporate Membership Listing, New Member Welcome, &
SMTAI Show Details 11 - 14
Technical Article Kepler - A Search for Habitable
Planets 15
SMTA Member Profile 16
October 2011
Hello, Well election time is just around the corner and it is time for me to say so long as your chapter president. It has been a great experience and I hope everyone was happy with our chapter leadership. Scott Penin will step up and run for your chapter president in 2012. If any of you out there want to run for a board position then let us know. We could really use the help as we have the position of Secretary to fill, and are always looking for expertise to assist us in planning great events for our chapter mem-bers. If you are interested in running for a board position then just contact any of our board members. The only requirements are that you are a member that attends meetings regularly, have a desire to help others grow intellectually, and are willing to donate a few hours a month with your expertise. The re-turn on your investment is well worth it. Thanks to all who came out to our September 15th, 2011 Chapter Dinner Meeting. Rich Brooks with Kyzen did an excellent job presenting on IPC-CH-65B - Guidelines for Cleaning Printed Circuit Boards Professional Development Course Review. The presentation reviewed the updated document and what would be presented in the development course at APEX 2012. The meeting was well worth the time and the food was delicious. A special thanks to Kyzen for providing a great speaker for our meeting, and to all who attended and provided support of our chapter. The SMTAI show will take place October 16th - 20th in Fort Worth, Texas. The show is sold out and there are some excellent educational opportunities for everyone. It is not too late for you to register if you haven’t done so already. Please see page 13 of this newsletter or go to www.smta.org for additional details. For those of you who don’t have the budget to travel to the SMTAI show this year we have a great presentation planned for our upcoming October 20th, 2011 Chapter Dinner meeting, which will be held on the third Thursday of the month at JT Schmid's Restaurant & Brewery in Anaheim across from the Honda Center. Dr. Nick Gautier with Jet Propulsion Laboratory will present on Hunting for Exoplanets - The Kepler Mission. If you would like to have a vendor table for this meeting then please contact any of our board members. Additional information on this meeting is located on page 1 & page 15 of this newsletter or on our home web page at: http://www.laocsmta.org/. Free? Nothing in life is ever Free...Right? Wrong! Attend the LA/OC SMTA Chapter Expo and Tech Forum and you will get Free Admission, Free Technical Sessions, Free Lunch, & Free Raf-fle Prizes! Mark your Calendars now for a great Southern California Expo and Tech Forum. Our first annual LA/OC SMTA Chapter Expo and Tech Forum will be on Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011 at The Grand Event Center in Long Beach, CA! The show will begin at 10am and end at 3pm. Currently there are 55 registered Vendors (see Page 6) and sign ups are on going. Don’t miss out on this great value! More details on the event are on Page 5 of this newsletter or on our Tech Expo Web page. At-tendees and Exhibitors can Register now at http://www.smta.org/expos/#laoc. Please be sure to reg-ister if you plan on attending so we can be sure we have enough food for all! If your organization would like to have a vendor table for any of our meetings then contact any of our board members and they will assist you in setting this up. The LA/OC SMTA board would like to thank our presenters in advance for agreeing to provide an educational seminar and we are all look-ing forward to our great 2011/2012 educational events. If you would like to be a presenter at one of our upcoming meetings then contact Doug Dixon our VP of Technical Programs. To reserve your spot for the educational dinner events please go to http://www.laocsmta.org/reservation.php.
Best Regards, Kathy Palumbo
LA/OC SMTA PRESIDENT MESSAGELA/OC SMTA PRESIDENT MESSAGE
Chapter Officers
President Kathy Palumbo CEO & Founder
Production Analysis & Learning Services, LLC
5 Homestead Drive Trabuco Canyon, CA
BUS/FAX: 949.713.7229 [email protected]
Vice- President & Golf Tournament
Chairman Scott Penin, CSMTPE
President & Co-Founder Paradigm Contract Mfg, LLC
11562 Knott Avenue, Unit 13 Garden Grove, Ca. 92841
BUS: 714.889.7074 [email protected]
Secretary Bill Macartney
Western Regional Manager Indium Corp. or America
BUS: 800.446.3486 ext. 7553 BUS: 775.284.1533
Treasurer Ron Gonzales
V.P. Manufacturing REVCO Products, Inc.
7221 Acacia Avenue Garden Grove, CA 92841-3908
BUS: 714. 891.6688 [email protected]
Vice-President of Membership
Matt Olson Sales Manager
Practical Tools, Inc. 10762 Noel St.
Los Alamitos, CA 90720-2548 BUS: 714. 252.1192
Vice-President of Technical Programs
Doug Dixon Electronics Marketing Director Henkel Electronic Material, LLC
15350 Barranca Parkway Irvine, California 92618
BUS: 949.789.2517 [email protected]
"The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. Hard work is the price we all must pay for success." Vince Lombardi
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eMT http://www.emtllc.com
Law Office of William K. Crowe [email protected]
Tel.: (949) 336-6611 http://www.williamcrowelaw.com
Indium Corporation http://www.indium.com
Henkel Corp http://www.loctite.com
Chemcut http://www.chemcut.net
AMTECH, Inc. http://www.amtechsolder.com/
Burkle North America http://www.burkleusa.com
C.A.PICARD http://www.capicard.com
AIRTECH http://www.airtechintl.com
Christopher Associates http://www.christopherweb.com/
Express Manufacturing http://www.eminc.com
ADS Gold http://www.adsgold.com/
Frank & Laura Kurisu http://www.soldermask.com
Long Beach Embroidery http://www.longbeachembroidery.com/
OK International http://www.okinternational.com
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PA&LS, LLC http://www.palsrvs.com
Weller http://www.cooperhandtools.com/weller/
Restronics Southern California http://www.restronics.com
Seika Machinery http://www.seikausa.com
Revco Products, Inc. http://www.revcoproducts.com
SolderMask, Inc. http://www.soldermask.com
Prestige Metal Recyclers, Inc. http://www.prestigemetalrecyclers.com
Scienscope International http://www.scienscope.com/
Nordson YESTECH http://www.nordson.com/
Tapco Circuit Supply http://www.tapcocircuitsupply.com
P-Kay Metals http://www.pkaymetal.com
Production Technology http://www.prod-tech.com
Technic http://www.technic.com
Pentagon EMS http://www.pentagon-ems.com
DATE Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
Show Hours 10am to 3pm
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Technical Session 1 11am to 11:30am
"A Review of the Challenges and Development of SMT, Wave and Rework Assembly Processes in the Electronics Industry"
The electronics assembly industry has been migrating from PTH to SMT over a number of years. This migration has seen a number of new components and technologies faced by the industry. The presentation will review issues and
developments related to SMT Assembly processes in terms of printing, reflow and test of components such as QFN/LGA/BTC, PoP, BGA/CSP and chip
components as well as equipment used to inspect during the assembly proc-ess. For wave soldering, the presentation will look at issues and development
related to wave holefill and for rework it will review BGA, Through-Hole and Hand soldering rework challenges and development and assess the solder
alloy choices for SMT, Wave and Rework.
Speaker Jasbir Bath, Christopher Associates/Koki Solder
Jasbir Bath is a Consulting Engineer for Christopher Associates/ Koki Solder in the Americas. He was the Corporate Lead Engineer with Solectron Corpo-
ration and Flextronics International for ten years with a role involving tin-lead and lead-free solder process development.
Lunch Free for All
11:45am to 12:45pm
Technical Session 2 1pm to 1:30pm
"Simple Steps to Trouble-Free Defluxing" You will learn practical ideas for efficient, productive, and profitable elec-
tronics assembly/defluxing processes. We'll explain cleaning processes rela-tive to fluxes, assembly design, and street-legal chemistry and process op-
tions. The emphasis will be on operating successfully, even in Southern Cali-fornia. Those of you involved in contract manufacturing/assembly will under-stand the best approaches to taking on new projects and to working with your supply chain. Barbara, "The Cleaning Lady" and Ed, "The Rocket Scientist"
will address your specific concerns throughout the Tech Forum.
Speakers Barbara Kanegsberg & Ed Kanegsberg, PhD
BFK Solutions LLC Barbara Kanegsberg and Ed Kanegsberg, PhD of BFK Solutions LLC are the industry leaders in critical cleaning consulting. They specialize in entertaining
programs that keep you awake and provide independent, practical informa-tion. Their decades of practical, hands-on experience in manufacturing and
their understanding of current and upcoming cleaning/defluxing options help manufacturers find cost-effect cleaning processes. They are active in IPC
cleaning and coating activities and contributed to the newly published IPC handbook, IPC-CH65B - Guidelines for Cleaning of Printed Boards and
Assemblies. Their defense/aerospace projects include the military/NASA JS3 Group. Their involvement in the medical device community includes ASTM standards and guidelines. They are editors of the new, expanded acclaimed 2-volume second edition of "Handbook for Critical Cleaning," CRC/Taylor &
Francis (2011).
Technical Session 3 2pm to 2:30pm
"Dynamic Production Planning" Production planners face many challenges in today's manufacturing. As more and more global regions move to high-mix with increasing volume produc-
tion, the planning task of running multiple products effectively through exist-ing assets and resources poses a significant scheduling challenge. In many factories an Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERP) creates an initial production schedule. However, a tactical shop-floor schedule is needed to compensate for the real-time changes while ensuring products with similar
materials can be put together to minimize changeovers and optimize produc-tion flow. A review of the current available planning tools and new planning
tools will be provided.
Speaker Jay Gorajia, Technical Sales/Support Manager, Mentor Graphics Jay Gorajia is Global PCB Assembly Manufacturing practice manager for the Consulting Division of Mentor Graphics. He works to improve efficiencies and productivity solutions in engineering and production for PCB Assembly manufacturers. Mr. Gorajia holds a Bachelor's degree (B.Sc.) in Electronic
Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) in Technology Management. Mr. Gorajia has 19 years of experience in the PCB industry,
holding various positions including software development, application engi-neering, manufacturing consultant and project management. He has published a number of articles and White Papers in industry leading technical magazines
and industry conferences.
Exhibitor COST Corporate Members = $350/$450 (early/late)
Non-Corporate Member = $425/$525 (early/late) Earlybird pricing expires September 30, 2011
Exhibit package includes: one tabletop exhibit space, access to electricity, one 6-foot draped table, two chairs, company sign, lunch, directory listing and
attendee list.
Attendee COST Free
REGISTRATION Go To
http://www.smta.org/expos/#laoc And Click on Register Now To Exhibit & Attend
LOCATION
The Grand Event Center 4101 E. Willow St.
Long Beach, CA 90815 P. 562.426.0555 | F. 562.426.6616
http://choura.us/venues/grand
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Many Thanks to our Wonderful Corporate Members!!! We truly appreciate your Support of our Chapter!
Corporate Members of our Chapter
Aqueous Technologies Area51-ESG, Inc
Astronic Beckman Coulter
Christopher Associates EMT
Express Manufacturing General Monitors, Inc. Henkel Technologies
I Source Technical Services, Inc. Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Microtek Laboratories Multi-Fineline Electronix
Nordson Yestech, Inc. OK International P. Kay Metal, Inc.
Practical Components Inc. Production Analysis & Learning Services LLC
QSC Audio Products, Inc. Qual-Pro Corporation
Scienscope International Seika Machinery, Inc.
SolderMask Inc. Sony Manufacturing Systems America, Inc.
Zephyrtronics
Global Members of our Chapter Henkel Corporation
Global Participating Members of our Chapter Henkel Corporation
HISCO Inc.
The LA/OC SMTA Board Would The LA/OC SMTA Board Would The LA/OC SMTA Board Would Like to Welcome the Following Like to Welcome the Following Like to Welcome the Following
2011 New Members:2011 New Members:2011 New Members:
Thank you so Much for Joining our Chapter. We hope we get a chance to meet you in person at one of our up coming events, and if we already have then thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to attend! Membership makes our chapter strong and the board is grateful for each and every member. See page 10 for our membership flyer or visit
our website at: http://www.laocsmta.org/
and click on Become a Member Today
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Steve StamatisSteve StamatisSteve Stamatis Area51-ESG, Inc
Gil WhiteGil WhiteGil White DDi Global
James RyanJames RyanJames Ryan Integral Technology
Sean RedfernSean RedfernSean Redfern Tristar International
Dennis CatesDennis CatesDennis Cates Beckman Coulter
Manolito MapayeManolito MapayeManolito Mapaye Venture Design Services
Richard YabukiRichard YabukiRichard Yabuki Esterline Power Systems
Randall CarlsonRandall CarlsonRandall Carlson Western Digital Corporation
David LanaganDavid LanaganDavid Lanagan Prototron Circuits
Morris YoungMorris YoungMorris Young Smart Electronics & Assembly, Inc.
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LA/OC SMTA TECHNICL ARTICLELA/OC SMTA TECHNICL ARTICLE
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/overview/index.html The centuries-old quest for other worlds like our Earth has been rejuvenated by the intense excite-ment and popular interest surrounding the discovery of hundreds of planets orbiting other stars. There is now clear evidence for substantial numbers of three types of exoplanets; gas giants, hot-super-Earths in short period orbits, and ice giants. The challenge now is to find terrestrial planets (i.e., those one half to twice the size of the Earth), especially those in the habitable zone? of their stars where liquid water might exist on the surface of the planet. The Kepler Mission, NASA Discovery mission #10, is specifically designed to survey our region of the Milky Way galaxy to discover hundreds of Earth-size and smaller planets in or near the habitable zone? and determine the fraction of the hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy that might have such planets.
The Transit Method of Detecting Extrasolar Planets When a planet passes in front of a star as viewed from Earth, the event is called a “transit”. On Earth, we can observe an occasional Venus or Mercury transit. These events are seen as a small black dot creeping across the Sun—Venus or Mercury blocks sunlight as the planet moves between the Sun and us. Kepler finds planets by looking for tiny dips in the brightness of a star when a planet crosses in front of it—we say the planet transits the star. Once detected, the planet's orbital size can be calculated from the period (how long it takes the planet to orbit once around the star) and the mass of the star using Kepler's Third Law of planetary motion. The size of the planet is found from the depth of the transit (how much the brightness of the star drops) and the size of the star. From the orbital size and the temperature of the star, the planet's characteristic tem-perature can be calculated. From this the question of whether or not the planet is habitable (not necessarily inhabited) can be answered.
Kepler Instrument The Kepler instrument is a specially designed 0.95-meter diameter telescope called a photometer or light meter. It has a very large field of view for an astronomical telescope — 105 square degrees, which is comparable to the area of your hand held at arm's length. It needs that large a field in order to observe the necessary large number of stars. It stares at the same star field for the entire mission and continuously and simultaneously monitors the brightnesses of more than 100,000 stars for the life of the mission—3.5 or more years. The photometer must be spacebased to obtain the photometric precision needed to reliably see an Earth-like transit and to avoid interruptions caused by day-night cycles, seasonal cycles and atmospheric perturbations, such as, extinction associated with ground-based observing. Results from the Kepler mission will allow us to place our solar system within the context of plane-tary systems in the Galaxy.
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Sisto G. Ramirez, CSMTPE, CITSisto G. Ramirez, CSMTPE, CIT
Manufacturing EngineerManufacturing Engineer Viking Modular Solutions, SanminaViking Modular Solutions, Sanmina
LA/OC SMTA Member ProfileLA/OC SMTA Member Profile
Sisto is an Orange County native and developed an interest in computer science
during high school and joined the computer team, but was not your typical Egg Head.
He is a bit of a soccer fan and up until his knee surgery he played the sport frequently.
Sisto has always looked forward to watching the next major sporting event. This past
August he came out and enjoyed our LA/OC SMTA Golf Outing and had a wonderful
time.
After high school Sisto decided to serve his country and joined the Marine Corps
as a ground radio repairman. At his first duty station he jumped into the most difficult
support role of maintenance and troubleshooting of VHF Multi-channel communications
employed in the Hawk Missile defense system. This task was instrumental in develop-
ing his initial technical, troubleshooting, ingenuity, and root cause analysis skills. This
also helped with learning leadership and technical expertise that he was able to train
and pass on techniques by defining and developing procedures.
After military service Sisto tried various electronics fields, such as home entertain-
ment and optical vision, but eventually found a permanent stay at Viking. Sisto has
been able to continue with the technical and leadership support in rework processes,
SMT process, new product introduction, and proprietary stack component technology.
Supporting the design and engineering process has provided Sisto the opportunity
to learn manufacturing process engineering, and all his hard work paid off with a pro-
motion the position of Manufacturing Engineering. The SMTA & IPC has been instru-
mental in his learning process. Sisto has made his SMTA membership work for him by
taking advantage of the member networking, educational and tutorial programs, publi-
cations, the SMTA Process Engineer certification program, and the IPC-A-610 and IPC-
7711/7721 certification trainer courses. Sisto continues to educate himself through
SMTA and IPC educational events and hopes his example will motivate others to do the
same.
Come out to one of our Fun & Educational Meetings Come out to one of our Fun & Educational Meetings and Meet Sisto!and Meet Sisto!
