All, There will be a Northeast Product Safety Society / CNEC Product Safety Engineering Society meeting on Wednesday, April 25th, at The Holiday Inn, Boxborough MA. A social networking with light refreshments will begin at 7:00 PM and the technical meeting will start at 7:30 PM. Steve Brody, Brooks Automation Senior EHS Product Engineer, will present this month’s topic concerning on how one firm has implemented China RoHS. If you will be in the area, please feel free to join us as there is no charge and advanced notice or membership in NPSS or IEEE PSES is not required.
Steve is currently the Senior EHS Product Engineer at Brooks Automation in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. In this position he leads the Corporate Green Initiatives Steering Committee, the Material Declarations Core Team, and the EU WEEE Registration Team. Steve and his teams provide direction and guidance to the Corporation to bring about an orderly and rationale approach to worldwide RoHS compliance where the largest driver is the customer. He has been working in Compliance and Regulatory Engineering and Standards for over 30 years and has held similar positions with Thermo Fisher Scientific, Symbol Technologies and Wang Laboratories. He is President of the Northeast Product Safety Society, an IEEE Member, and a member of the Central New England Chapter of the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society. Steve has an Associate Degree in Electrical Engineering Technology from Lowell Technological Institute and a BS Degree in Technical Management from Southern New Hampshire University. Steve’s presentation was originally given at SEMICON China 2007 as part the Semiconductor Industry China RoHS Workshop this provides a pragmatic approach that can be used at any company and deals with the real world application of the Chinese Phase 1 requirements. The workshop included speakers from China's MII and Intel and Steve will also discuss some of the comments and information provided by them. Other topics to be covered include the Joint Industrial Guide and their JIG-101 document and the status of current and proposed environmental legislation and initiatives worldwide. Our meeting notices are usually listed in the IEEE NH Section web site under the latest newsletter topic. Future NPSS meeting notices as well as other IEEE NH Section information is available at http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r1/new_hampshire/. If you or anyone you know would like to give a product safety technical presentation, please contact Paul Smith, our meeting scheduler, by email at [email protected]. A technical presentation should be 45 to 60 minutes in duration and be related to product safety. Although the presentation may reference your company and it’s services, the presentation must not be simply company advertising. We would also appreciate any slides or handout materials be made available for posting on the NPSS web site. Releasing presentation materials for posting is desired but not a requirement to make a presentation. The 2007 NPSS meeting schedule is available on the NPSS website at http://www.nepss.org/meetings/NPSS_2006-7_Calendar.html. Further information about the Northeast Product Safety Society and how to become a member is available at http://www.nepss.org. You can also contact one of the NPSS officers via links on the NPSS web site. If you haven’t updated your contact and email address information this year, please update it at http://www.nepss.org/membership/profileupdate.html. Directions: >From Route 495 North or South, take Exit 28 to Route 111 East Turn right onto Adams Place (approximately 500 feet from Route 495 North) The Holiday Inn is the last building on the left. Regards, Matt Campanella NPSS Secretary Compliance Engineer Motorola, Inc. Broadband Communications Sector 111 Locke Drive Marlborough, MA 01752 (508) 786-7629 Direct (508) 786-7500 Main (508) 480-6332 Fax [email protected] email - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
