Pb-free Electronics Risk Management (PERM) Council Upcoming Meetings POC: John Perry Director, Printed Board Standards & Technology IPC — Association Connecting Electronics Industries® +1 847-597-2818 (tel) perrjo@ipc.org This document does not contain technology or technical data controlled under either the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or the U.S. Export Administration Regulations.
Next Four Meetings PERM-34-Boston-November-2017 November 7-9, in Andover, MA Hosted by Philips Medical PERM-35-San Diego-February-2018 March 1-2, San Diego Convention Center Held at IPC APEX 2018 PERM-36-TBD-Spring-2018 European Location TBD May/June timeframe PERM-37-Virtual-Summer-2018
Action Items
Are we there yet? Do we foresee a time when use of Pb-free technology used in ADHP systems will be so unremarkable that the special focus provided by the PERM is no longer required? Is it time to transition to a maintenance? When we started this journey I would not have guessed that we would still wrestling with these issues to this degree after more than a decade!