Design Chain Associates, LLC To Present in Mentor Graphics Webcast
Design Chain Associates, LLC is pleased to announce that Ken Stanvick, Senior Vice President, will be the featured speaker in a Mentor Graphics webcast on September 14th. The webcast, entitled “The Impact of RoHS on the Design Process”, focuses on how the European Union’s (EU) “restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment”, or RoHS, directive (2002/95/EC) and similar legislation and regulations around the world impacts electronic design engineering.
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) September 6, 2005 -– Design Chain Associates, LLC
is pleased to announce that Ken Stanvick, Senior Vice President, will be the
featured speaker in a Mentor Graphics webcast on September 14th. The webcast,
entitled “The Impact of RoHS on the Design Process”, focuses on how the European
Union’s (EU) “restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in
electrical and electronic equipment,” or RoHS, directive (2002/95/EC) and
similar legislation and regulations around the world impacts electronic design
engineering.
Mentor Graphics is the premier provider of board-level
electronic design tools to the electronics industry and provides a design for
RoHS compliance capability for their products. John Isaac, Mentor Graphics’
Director of Systems Market Development, identified Ken as a “renowned expert on
RoHS” and stated that “Mentor Graphics is pleased to partner with Ken and Design
Chain Associates to provide this design-focused webcast. The industry needs more
RoHS information specifically targeted at the engineers and designers performing
the PCB design.”
Ken commented that “DCA and I welcome this opportunity
to reach out to Mentor Graphics’ customer base and help them become aware of and
prepare for the technical as well as legal impact these new regulations will
have on their day-to-day work”.
Topics covered will include why the
regulation impacts design engineering and specifically what the impact is
to:
· printed circuit board materials and
layout
· component selection and related
manufacturability and reliability issues
· what data
is required to be collected, why, and what to do with
it
· circuit design
as well as a brief
introduction to “Design for Environment”.
Visit http://www.mentor.com/products/pcb/events/rohs_webinar.cfm to
sign up to attend the webcast, which is free.
About Design Chain
Associates, LLC
Design Chain Associates' consulting services help Electronics
OEMs speed product time-to-market, reduce supply chain risks, and lower costs
while increasing engineering and procurement efficiency. DCA offers a variety of
consulting services related to RoHS and environmental compliance, including
public and private seminars, product impact evaluation, personalized training,
material composition acquisition, component engineering, Green BOM analysis, and
competitive advantage analysis. San Francisco-based DCA has a local presence in
other high-tech regions of the country such as the Austin/Houston corridor and
the Boston region as well as around the globe through local associates. For more
information, visit DCA on the web at http://www.designchainassociates.com.
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