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Trade Show Preview


DelMar traDe show tackles counterFeit coMponent Detection


Workshop covers the latest tools in the detection and identification of counterfeit electronic components, providing hands-on training on equipment that will help improve quality control programs.


The DelMar Electronics and Design Show is set to take place at the DelMar Fairgrounds in San Diego, California,May 4 to 5. This annual conference provides companies that design,manufacture and test electronic products with the latest updates on what's happening in the Southern California and Northern Baja manufacturingmarketplace.


Attendees willmeet decision


makers across a variety of industries includingmedical,military and telecommunications. You'llmeet buyers, engineers and designers fromleading electronics companies including Alcatel-Lucent, Hewlett- Packard, Honeywell, Northrop Grumman, Nokia, Plantronics, and Qualcomm.


A host of distributors alsowill


showcase a broad line of electronic components including electromechanical devices, interconnects, passive components and semiconductors. Distributors include Allied, Area51-ESG, Digi-Key, House of Batteries, Mouser Electronics, PEI-Genesis and TTI.


In addition to electronic components and


subassemblies, exhibitorswill highlight a number of services including computer-aided design andmanufacturing, rapid prototyping, engineering, production and automation machinery,materials handling, quality systems, software and enterprise IT.


Freeworkshops, seminars


The showoffers several free programs and seminars conducted by industry leaders and federal agencies. Addressing the industry's concernwith counterfeit electronic componentsmaking theirway into the supply chain, oneworkshop focuses on identifying counterfeit electronic components. Dr. Bill Cardoso, president of Creative Electron Inc.,will conduct theworkshop. He also is a member of the SAE International's G-19 subcommittee as a subject matter expert on the upcoming regulation concerning counterfeit component avoidance.


40 | April 2011 In thisworkshop,


attendeeswill learn howto use the latest tools in the detection and identification of counterfeit electronic components. Targeted at quality inspectors and component engineers, this workshop provides hands- on training on state-of-the- art equipment thatwill


allowcompanies to significantly improve their quality control programs.


Using counterfeit components, theworkshop


will include training on the following techniques: x-ray inspection, decapsulation and IC layering, visual packaging inspection,marking permanence and blacktopping tests, and microscopic inspection.


If you're looking for international


buyers, Carrie Brooks, international trade specialist for the U.S. Department of Commerce/U.S. Commercial Service, will conduct a program, called Free Resources for Finding International Buyers. Brooks will present and provide attendees with some of the best free resources and websites for finding global distributors for electronic parts and products.


Other free seminars include: • Newproduct introduction process for electronicmedical devices


• Maximize cash flow,minimizewasted timewith customers and suppliers


• Lithiumbattery technology update • Solid state lighting • The key to flex circuit designs • The future of Americanmanufacturing


Admission and parking is free. Detailed conference information and registration is available at www.vts.com.


www.electronics-sourcing.com


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