Learn about IPC's role in the White House's “Our Pledge to America’s Workers” Event
Join IPC tomorrow, November 9 at 11:30 am (EST) for the “Midterm Election Results and What it Means for Our Industry” webinar. Chris Mitchell, IPC’s Vice President for Global Government Relations, and the political team at Prime Policy Group and PSB Research will provide an analysis of the election results, the policy outlook for the next Congress, and the implications for the electronics industry. While the election results suggest multiple narratives, voter apathy was not one of them.
Learn about IPC's participation in the Pledge to America's Workers initiative.
By Chris Jorgensen, director, technology transfer
IPC will host an open-invitation web meeting for European organizations involved in e-textiles technologies to form a working group or groups under the IPC D-70 E-Textiles Committee. As the D-70 Committee expands its standards development activities, IPC has received interest from committee members in Europe to form a local standards group or groups.
Pursuant to Section 845 of the Fiscal 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is required to provide an assessment of the defense electronics industrial base to Congress by January 31, 2019.
One of the biggest events to occur in the political and policy world in the last month was, of course, the U.S. midterm elections, in which the Democrats gained almost 40 seats in the House of Representatives while minimizing their losses in the U.S. Senate. The incoming Congress will be younger and more diverse than ever. Several key moderates and senior leaders will be leaving the scene.
The election results are likely to bring even more partisan gridlock to Washington in the months ahead.
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The IPC V-TSL-MVIA Weak Interface Microvia Failures Technology Solutions Subcommittee, formed this year, is working to identify the risks, causes, and mitigation of failures due to a weak interface between the plated copper at the bottom of a microvia and the underlying copper surface. The activity grew out of the development of IPC-WP-023, a white paper that cast a light on how a weak microvia interface is a hidden reliability threat.
The subcommittee will hold an open forum for industry to learn about its activities as well as its planned path forward.
In Part 10 of IPC President and CEO John Mitchell’s blog series on workforce issue, John covers gender differences in the workplace.
As I mentioned last week, in Part 5: Demographic Differences, we reviewed two primary topics: generational differences and gender differences.
IPC president and CEO John Mitchell invites you to attend IPC APEX EXPO 2019. From the show floor to the class room and all points in between, IPC APEX EXPO 2019 is THE place to be to learn, network, and conduct business.
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