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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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!) [...]

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 [...]