Topical speakers and round table discussions for SMART Group's Design for Cost Effective Assembly include:

Martin Morrell  of  Artetch  Circuits is firmly committed to investment in R&D (including participation in the recently launched NPL Project into the Measurements of Copper Dissolution in Lead-Free Solder Alloys) as well as the principles of DFM will be taking on the subjects of Common PCB design faults and their impact on fabrication as well as  general PCB Substrate requirements for cost effective assembly

Malcolm Perry  of  Rede Consulting Ltd - Malcolm comes to the Subject of DFC initially from a design background with a number of years working within OEM's both in the U.K and overseas and as an independent consultant and project manager helping design, manufacturing and management teams groups to understand  and optimise product designs and cost models.  In tackling the subject of Design for Cost Malcolm will delineate between the proportion of the overall cost of a product  that Operations can affect and how a good Design for manufacture program can help look after your profit .

Karl Miles of  Goepel Electronic Ltd  will be covering the results of not considering DFT and DFT requirements,  boundary scan both as a stand alone test and integrated into a wider test platform as well as the differences in requirements for  functional versus diagnostic testing  and Environmental Testing requirements.

Bob Willis of SMART Group and Independent consultant is well known to attendees of SMART Group seminars and from his extensive experience will be looking at  a variety of subjects including Typical Manufacturing Assembly costs, Standard and advanced PCB layout rules, Cost and Standard times for Assembly, and Common PCB design faults and their impact on assembly yields

Peter Grundy of the SMART Group is director of P G Engineering (Sussex) Ltd. and ITM Consulting and a regular columnist for Circuit assembly - Peter has a long history of working with OEM's and CEM's to solve assembly problems, and optimise manufacturing through the use of automation and other methods. A strong advocate of DFM and DFT, Peter will be talking about NPI and Automatic Design Rule Checking

Sue Knight of SMART Group and Global Electronics Manufacturing Limited will be giving an overview of the latest component packaging, Checklist for your design review and contributing experience of working as a Manufacturing Engineer to the discussions on  both Standard PCB Layout and Design Rules and Common PCB design faults and their impact on assembly

The full programme is available at www.smartgroup.org/pdf/design2007.pdf