Tin whisker mitigation research to be performed by Rockwell Collins for DoD program – Military Embedded Systems

A team lead by Rockwell Collins has been selected by the Department of Defense's (DoD's) Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program to lead team a research project on the Tin Whiskers Inorganic Coatings Evaluation (TWICE) program. The research will focus on mitigating the impact of tin whiskers on high-reliability, high-performance electronic systems caused by new lead-free alloys and finishes in the defense and aerospace and defense manufacturing systems and supply chain.

The project is expected to form a better scientific understanding of the mechanisms of tin whisker formation and how they may be managed with conformal coatings. Materials and the processes necessary to generate coatings that could mitigate tin whisker growth on a variety of surfaces over a wide range of environmental conditions will be developed.


Tin whisker mitigation research to be performed by Rockwell Collins for DoD program – Military Embedded Systems:

'WEEE II’

ENDS Legal Compliance Manager: The recast EU Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (‘WEEE II’) Directive will repeal and replace the original EU WEEE Directive 2002/96/EC from 15 February 2014, so as to increase national collection targets, as well as recovery targets, and extend the scope of the Directive. It applies to specific forms of WEEE (such as household appliances) from 13 August 2012, but will switch to ‘open scope’, with certain exemptions, from 15 August 2018. It is due to be transposed into Member State law from 14 February 2014.

The Directive will allow the existing national collection target of at least four kilograms of WEEE per person from private households to remain until 31 December 2015. From 1 January 2016, however, the national collection targets will increase to require a minimum collection rate of 45 per cent (or 40 per cent for new Member States) until the end of 2018, based on the average weight of WEEE placed on the market in each state over the previous three years. From 1 January 2019, Member States may either collect at least 65 per cent of EEE placed on the market or 85 per cent of WEEE generated each year, with new Member States permitted to delay the introduction of higher targets until 14 August 2021.

Recovery targets are also laid out that will increase every three years from August 2012, with certain products moving from a ‘recycling’ target to a ‘preparation for re-use and recycling’ target from August 2015.

SMART Group European Conference on Packaging, Assembly and Reliability

Events Diary | SMART Group: plus Table Top Exhibition
18-19th September, Spread Eagle Hotel, Cornmarket, Thame, Oxfordshire, England

The Big Zero Conference – Design and Build Reliability