Our SMTA Penang Chapter was honored with recognition as an SMTA International Chapter of the Year at SMTA International in San Diego, California, USA recently.

Accepting the award on our behalf at the ceremony was Mr. Bill Barthel.

This year, the Battle of the Champions was held at Bukit Dumbar Badminton Hall on Saturday, 14th of August. The badminton tournament received an overwhelming response. In fact, we did not anticipate the turnout of participants to be so great until we had to "disappoint" some people. Not to mention committee members had been kept in reserve.

A total of 32 players or 16 teams divided into 4 groups were drawn to compete for the champion. To avoid one-sided match, each player's partner was pre-drawn by the committee members. Despite of that, all participants had displayed friendly and pleasant games amongst themselves. After competing for almost 4 hours, a new Champion is born: CK Ang & CC Poh. The overall result is as below:

CHAMPIONS : CK ANG (Celestica) & CC POH (Chiptronics)
1ST RUNNER UP : HP KOH (Plexus) & CH LEE (Intel)
2ND RUNNER UP : HC TAN (Plexus) & CY FOO (DCI)
3RD RUNNER UP : VINCENT WONG (B’worth Electrical Sdn Bhd) & CL YEAP (Plexus)

SMTA Penang Chapter would like to take the opportunity to extend a heartfelt thank you to Dato Pang for his kind and generous sponsorship again. Dato Pang's support is not something we take likely and is very much appreciated by everyone connected to the chapter.

Overall, the entire weekend was a huge success, many great games were played, and a lot of fun was had by all.

Thanks again to everyone involved and we certainly look forward to holding it again next year.

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• Counterfeit Electronics
• Solar

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The SMTA membership is a network of international professionals who build skills, share practical experiences, and develop solutions in electronic assembly technologies, including microsystems, emerging technologies, and related business operations.

As Penang has the presence of many world’s key electronics multinational corporations and local companies, with a large pool of professionals, it is beneficial to have an association that pursues professional development. The chapter is a non-profit organization.

The SMTA Penang Chapter is pleased to announce its 3rd Vendor Show in Penang, Malaysia. The tabletop exhibition will held on November 19th, 2010 at the Eastin Hotel Penang, Malaysia. The Tabletop Exhibition is especially popular among our industry suppliers, as this one-day event is designed to showcase products of the industry users of SMT materials and services.

In conjunction to this 3rd Vendor Show in the region, free technical conference will be given that relates to surface mount technology and future trends in electronics assembly.

This show is an excellent opportunity to create and build brand awareness, increase your exposure, promote latest products and services share your knowledge on latest technology to the local electronics and manufacturing industry professionals.

Visitors want to learn about what’s new in the industry, and make new contacts. Thus, this is an important way for exhibitors to hype up your presence in the industry and create top-of-mind awareness, besides selling your products and services.

We cordially invite you to participate in this Vendor Show cum Technical Conference on Electronics Assembly Technologies. Please fill up the attached registration form and return to Bernie@smta.org

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South East Asia Technical Conference on Electronics Assembly Technologies

You are invited to submit an abstract to the SMTA’s newest technical event in Penang, Malaysia. Presentations are sought in the following key technology tracks:

Assembly

• Adhesives, Alternate Alloys, BGA/CSP Assembly
• Cleaning
• Connector Technology
• Copper Erosion
• DFX/Design for Six Sigma
• Dispensing
• Equipment Selection
• Facility Layout
• Flux and Solder
• Halogen and Halogen-Free
• Head-in-Pillow Defect
• Land Pattern Design
• Lead-Free Soldering (including case studies)
• Lead-Free Reliability
• Lean Manufacturing
• Low Volume / Prototype Assembly
• Medical Electronics
• Placement
• Printing
• Reflow Soldering
• Rework and Repair of QFNs
• RFID Assembly
• Selective Soldering
• Set Up Reduction
• Solder Paste
• Solder Voids
• Supplier Engineering
• Underfill
• Vapor Phase Reflow for High Reliability Assemblies
• Wave Soldering
• Yield Improvement

Components

• BGA
• Battery Interactions
• BTCs (Bottom Termination Components)
• CSP (including Wafer-Level Packages)
• Component Solderability
• Component Reliability
• Connectors
• Embedded Passives
• Failure Analysis
• Fine Pitch Technology
• Flip Chip / Direct Chip Attach
• Lead/Termination Finish
• Leadless Packaging
• Multichip Packages (including 3-D Packaging Package on Package)
• Tin Whiskers

Emerging Technologies

• 0201/01005 Components and Assembly
• Consumer Applications
• Electronic Printing Technology
• Embedded Technology / Actives and Assembly
• Flexible Electronics
• MEMS/RF
• MEMS/MOEMS
• Nanoelectronics
• Reliability of Nanodevices
• New Materials and Processes
• Optoelectronics
• Power or Thermal Management
• Sensors and Manufacturing
• Solar Technology
• System in a Package
• Thermal Interface Materials
• Wireless Applications including Bluetooth and Wi-Fi

Harsh Environment Applications

• Components and Component Reliability
• Lead-free Issues for Harsh Environments
• Substrates
• Thermal Management

PCB Technology

• Black Pad and Surface Finish Defects
• Embedded Passive and Active Components
• Halogen Free
• HDI
• Microvias (including filled and unfilled)
• Moisture Sensitivity
• Soldermask
• Substrate Reliability & Solderability
• Surface Finish

Process Control

• Acoustic Imaging
• AOI
• CIM
• In-Circuit Test
• Process Modeling
• Software
• Test Strategies
• X-Ray

Business

• Capacity Modeling
• Contract Manufacturing
• Doing Business in Asia
• Environmental Issues
• Lean Manufacturing / Quality Initiatives
• Operations Management
• Remaining Competitive
• RoHS Compliance
• Supplier Management
• Technology Roadmap

Abstracts (300 words) are due January 2nd, 2011. The abstract and presentation must be non-commercial in nature and emphasize the technology and not the company portfolio. Please include your contact information (address, phone number, email address) and a presentation title with your abstract submission.

Contact the Conference Coordinator, Bernie Selva at bernie@smta.org or Melissa at melissa@smta.org with questions or comments.

You are cordially invited to attend the SMTA Free Technical Talk

Presenters:

Title: Reworking CSP, Flip Chip & MSMD (Micro Surface Mount Devices)
Speaker: Mr. Ray LaFleur (Asia Support Mgr)
Company: VJ Electronics

Title: Vision Inspection
Speaker: Mr. Steve Marsh
Company: Vision Engineering

Please mark your calendars now and register to bernie@smta.org to confirm your seat.

South East Asia Technical Conference on Electronics Assembly Technologies

December 15, 2009

Penang, Malaysia - SMTA South East Asia announced today that the South East Asia Technical Conference on Electronics Assembly Technologies, held November 19-20, 2009, was a success.

“The technical conference was one of the best technical programs in our industry with excellent papers," said a session attendee. Twenty-three international experts on electronics assembly provided cutting-edge technical information to the conference attendees, covering topics ranging from assembly, components, emerging technologies, harsh environment applications, and PCB technology.

The Event was officiated by the Chief Minister of Penang, YAB Lim Guan Eng.

“The SMTA sends sincere thanks to everyone who exhibited this year,” said David Vetharudge, the Chairman of SMTA Penang Chapter. “Without the exhibits, a conference of this magnitude could not be accomplished.” David also took the liberty to thank Dato Pang Yun Thiam of Chiptronics on behalf of the Penang Chapter, Dato Pang was also given a supporter award for his valuable contribution towards the Penang Chapter at the event.

The Penang Chapter was honored to win the SMTA International Chapter of the Year award, which the chapter graciously accepted from Ms. JoAnn Stromberg, Executive Administrator of SMTA Headquarters.

For more information on SMTA events past, present or future please contact Penang SMTA Executive Coordinator Bernie Selva: bernie@smta.org or 604-630-3004.

The SMTA membership is an international network of professionals who build skills, share practical experience and develop solutions in electronic assembly technologies, including microsystems, emerging technologies, and related business operations.

Photos from the Penang Chapter Electronics Manufacturing Technology Conference.

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