John Burke founded the UK based Surface Mounted and Related Technologies (SMART) Group in 1984, and has worked in the area of advanced manufacturing for many years. Has taught at various universities on technology, including university of Dundee, University of Hull, and University of Cambridge.
John has been involved with the generation of IPC 1752 as a part of the 2-18 committees. He's been dealing with reporting standards for hazardous materials.
John has also for many years been involved in the drive towards environmentally sound electronics assemblies, and has been heavily involved in trying to aid engineers caught up in the drive towards RoHS and JIG compliance.
John is currently employed as Operations Director for a fabless semiconductor startup in the valley. Contact John at john@rohsusa.com. John Burke
John Burke founded the UK based Surface Mounted and Related Technologies (SMART) Group in 1984, and has worked in the area of advanced manufacturing for many years. Has taught at various universities on technology, including university of Dundee, University of Hull, and University of Cambridge.
John has been involved with the generation of IPC 1752 as a part of the 2-18 committees. He's been dealing with reporting standards for hazardous materials.
John has also for many years been involved in the drive towards environmentally sound electronics assemblies, and has been heavily involved in trying to aid engineers caught up in the drive towards RoHS and JIG compliance.
John is currently employed as Operations Director for a fabless semiconductor startup in the valley. Contact John at john@rohsusa.com. Treating the unexpected as normal
In project plans have you noticed the constant state of change? But of course you have!
Made me wonder about that: the chip that is advertised at one speed and actually when tested runs either faster or slower: enough for a data sheet change. The product that has to be rapidly re-engineered due to a design [...]
Disaster Recovery.
Industrial disaster strikes – ever been there? I have: :
Disaster can take a number of forms: late delivery, key personnel absence; shortage of materials, total failure of product due to soldering: .any number of events can be termed “disaster” by the team.
I have worked on projects which ranged in scope of disaster recovery from [...]
Whose data is this anyway?
You may think as you prepare your spreadsheets and reports that you are doing a fantastic job: : .we all do: .8-)
Sit back though and imagine a scenario where the data is being viewed by someone that has never seen it before: :
I have seen confusion in manufacturing schedules where the product is grouped [...]
Disaster Planning
It’s a funny thing how life continues again and again to give us pause for thought.
In industry, we know that the unemployment rate is going up. The valley seems to be weathering the storm and the financial press is full of speculation that there will be more jobs created next year: me?: Personally after the [...]
Be positive – Be happy…………..build the team…
OK here is the scenario – Do you pass the “ink blot test”??.
It is Friday afternoon on the day before a holiday weekend. You are on the telephone to a venture capital company in New York wanting to know about RoHS impact. The project you are working on since October and which has had three [...]
Environmental Electronics – no time to learn from your mistakes!!
Unusual title I know – Saturday at last (and my last blog here)
I just spent the day shooting clays – my score is getting better every time I get out on the range and practice. One day I may actually be able to hit all of them – who knows.
The reason for the comparison is [...]
Environmental compliance: Putting it all together (or have it all fall apart: )
A fast overview of the things you need to check from a project management perspective.
(Friday …… at last…………..)
This week we have looked at a number of areas.
The first is that of the environmental compliance actions arising out of the MRD (Marketing Requirements Doc).
Everything related to environmental compliance hinges on this document and the geographic areas into [...]
It’s environmentally friendly!! – what do you mean it doesn’t work?
A project manager’s guide to reliability aspects of lead free electronics implementation.
I trust that you are not part of a team that expected to just change the solder from leaded to unleaded and call it good.
If you are part of that team I suggest you start getting the resume up to speed and start browsing [...]
Environmental Alchemy
How the EU RoHS legislation turned engineers into lawyers: :
From a Project Management perspective it can sometimes be a little frustrating when there are delays due to the BOM verification on an electronics project: particularly when the environmental compliance aspect did not used to be a check list item: …
Just a few years [...]
Back to basics: Environment first!!
In any project plan, there is generally an awareness of the phases of the project life cycle (PLC) which is mapped out from product concept through to product end of life (EOL).
The program management of these phases is critical to the successful on time delivery of an electronics “widget” into today’s environmentally aware (and legislated!) [...]
Managing environmental change in electronics.
Hi – My name is John Burke, and for the last 9 years I have been involved in the process of environmental awareness and change in the electronics industry to more friendly materials that enable recycling, re-use of materials, and more environmentally and human friendly materials and processes.
For those of you who have been through [...]
