All, There will be a Northeast Product Safety Society meeting next week on Wednesday, February 22nd, at EMC Corporation's Conference Room 1-2 (Building A, 1st floor) at 228 South Street in Hopkinton, MA. A social hour with light refreshments will begin at 7:00 PM and the technical meeting will start at 7:30 PM. Geoffrey Bock, Program Manager for RoHS/WEEE at the Detroit office of TUV Rheinland of North America, will present this month’s topic concerning the latest out of the EU regarding RoHS. If you will be in the area, please feel free to join us as advanced notice or membership in NPSS or IEEE PSES is not required.
Geoffrey is currently involved in 3rd party evaluations on various contracts, which range from electrical to SEMI S-2, S-8, and S-14 evaluations and reports, and is also the Chemical/Hygiene program Coordinator for North America. Recently, he has been appointed Program manager for RoHS and WEEE for North America. He is an officer of the ASTM F40 Committee on “Declarable Substances in Materials”. Following are some of Geoffrey’s achievements working for a world-manufacturing leader during 10 years in Germany before reporting to TUV Rheinland in North America in May 2001. His last duties there included the Technical Transfer and Training of new machinery, which requires the technical files that will develop the operation manual for those machines. These documents included safety, environment, all technical maintenance files, operator interface, emergency situations, electrical wiring network with diagrams and software using links for easy access to all CAD files, hygiene engineering data that includes the design and construction files (which he also designed and implemented). In addition to these duties, he was also the plant Environmental, Health & Safety Leader. Geoffrey’s presentation will provide a WEEE and RoHS overview along with the latest information from the EU on these directives and their implementation. The WEEE presentation will cover: Product categories Recycling and recovery targets "Decrypting the Myth" of Registration Recycling Consortiums B2C vs. B2B Mandatory requirements Sample of Disassembly, Recycling & Recovery Calculation The RoHS presentation will cover: Product Categories Maximum Concentration Values "Correct or Incorrect" Testing Methods Standards Development Example of RoHS Testing RoHS Management Surveillance Audits Performing "Due-Diligence" If you or anyone you know would like to give a product safety technical presentation, please contact Paul Smith, our meeting scheduler, by email at pauljsmi...@cs.com. A technical presentation should be 45 to 60 minutes in duration and be related to product safety. Although the presentation may reference your company and it’s services, the presentation must not be simply company advertising. We would also appreciate any slides or handout materials be made available for posting on the NPSS web site. Releasing presentation materials for posting is desired but not a requirement to make a presentation. The 2006 NPSS meeting schedule is available on the NPSS website at http://www.nepss.org/meetings/NPSS_2006-7_Calendar.html. Further information about the Northeast Product Safety Society and how to become a member is available at http://www.nepss.org. You can also contact one of the NPSS officers via links on the NPSS web site. Directions: >From Route 495 North or South take exit 21B to West Main Street. Counting the traffic light at the off ramp from Route 495 South as the first traffic light. At the second traffic light, turn left on to South Street (Note: This is on South direction side of Route 495). Proceed 1.6 miles on South Street, through the next two traffic lights. Turn right into the third driveway after the second light, marked with sign “228 South Street” Travel 0.2 miles to the end of the driveway and park in the lot. Check in at the Building A main entrance. Conference room 1-2 is to the left of the security front desk. Matt Campanella NPSS Secretary Compliance Engineer Motorola, Inc. Broadband Communications Sector 111 Locke Drive Marlborough, MA 01752 (508) 786-7629 Direct (508) 786-7500 Main (508) 480-6332 Fax matthew.campane...@motorola.com email - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to emc-p...@ieee.org Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas emcp...@ptcnh.net Mike Cantwell mcantw...@ieee.org For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org David Heald: emc-p...@daveheald.com All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
