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Detailed activities around the formation of the
 Electronic Designers Council of India (EDCI)
 

A BRIEF REPORT 
ON THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE & IPCA EXPO 2001
 ON EMERGINGTRENDS IN ELECTRONIC DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY
 HELD IN THE PREMISES OF CEDTI, MOHALI, CHANDIGARH
 ON OCT. 12-13, 2001 during the formation of EDCI
 

Our national conference-cum-exhibition on Emerging Trends in Electronics Design and Technology concluded on 13.10.2001as  programmed  and  set a  milestone  in the  development  of  the electronics  industry  for  electrical interconnection  with  the  establishment of  the  Electronic  Designers  Council  of  India, the first of its kind in the country, in affiliation with IPC Designers Council, USA
Now,  the  Indian  Printed  Circuit  Association  (IPCA)  has  provided a  platform  to  the electronic community  in  the  country  to  discuss  current technological trends in electronics design and technology.

Some highlights about the Conference and IPCA Expo:

  • Approximately   350    guests  and   delegates    took   part   during  the inauguration session, done by his Excellency  Lt. Gen.(Retd.) J.F.R. Jacob, Governor of Punjab.

  • Renowned speakers from India and 7 speakers from abroad delivered their presentations
  • More than 300  students  from  various engineering  colleges visited the exhibition, among them  65 foreign
     students from 28 countries
  • 25 reports within 09 to 14 October 2001 have been edited and published by the PRESS so far.
  • The  first time in  India, ELECTRONIC DESIGNERS COUNCIL OF INDIA has been established  in order to coordinate and  promote design  concepts related to international design rules and  international standards  through education, communication, seminars  and workshops
  • 47  designers  from   all   over   the   country  have  enrolled  themselves  as  members  for  the  Electronic Designers Council.
  • The  Draft  Constitution of the  Electronics Designers Council of India (EDCI) presented before its members has been  adopted  after  a  detailed  discussion  in the  first  General body of the Council held in the same premises  on  the  13th of  October  2001. The  General  body  of  the  Council  after adopting the proposed Constitution,  had  elected  for the first time, Office bearers and the members for the Working Committee of the Council on that momentous day.

WORKING COMMITTEE MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL (EDCI)
 EDCI-IPCA
 ELECTRONICS DESIGNERS’ COUNCIL OF INDIA
 # 690, 6th A Cross, 3rd Block, Koramangala, Behind BDA Shopping Complex,
Bangalore - 560 038 India.
Tel: 91-80-25505029,28 Fax: 91-80-25505149 email: designers@ipcaindia.org
Designers Council of Indian Printed Circuit Association and affiliated to Designers Council, IPC USA
 

Patron
R.S.Khandpur
Director, CEDTI Mohali
WORKING COMMITTEE - EDCI

Chairman
 Mr. Rajinder Kumar
President, IPCA
Bergen Associates, New Delhi
Treasurer
 Laxmi Narasimhan BE,
Bangalore

Members
 G.V.Mahesh
CEDT,
Bangalore

Parveen Sikka
EL Camino Tech, 
Gurgaon

Dr. Vinod Kumar
IIT, Roorkee

Ex-Officio Members

R.Chellappa
Secretary General, IPCA

S.Selvaraj
Treasurer, IPCA
 

Chairman-Advisory Board
 Manfred S.W. Braun
Joint Director, CEDTI Mohali



Executive Director
 M.Thiyagarajan
Ex-officio Vice-President, IPCA
Alpha-Imager, Bangalore

 

 


Mohan Narkar
Technocad,
Mumbai

Surjit Singh
Punjab Micro Circuit,
Ludhiana

 
  • We  have  received  congratulatory messages  and blessings  from the Honourable President of India, the Honourable Prime  Minister Mr. A . B. Vajpayee, the  Minister  of  Human  Resource  Development  India, Dr. Murali Manohar Joshi and from Mr. Pramod Mahajan, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Information Technology and Communications.

    Messages received from the other dignitaries are
  • Mr. Rajeeva Ratna Shah, Secretary, Ministry of Information Technology.
     
  • ELCINA-President & the Secretary General of ELCINA and many other more well wishers.
     
  • We have received best-wishes and messages  also from PCB and other global electronic associations who are co-members  of  the  WECC  (WORLD ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS COUNCIL)  around  the  world  – We record here with pleasure and gratitude the excerpts of their messages.
     
  • IPC-USA, President, Mr. Denny McGuirk.

"The IPC applauds the IPCA for their organization of this very important event.....   We congratulate you on the formation of the Electronics Designers Council of India as an affiliate member of the IPC Designers Council.  This  new  Council will be  joining  a  global  society of individuals dedicated to furthering the design profession"

  • IPC-USA, Vice President Mr.David Bergmann
    As Secretary General of the World Electronic Circuit Council,
    "I extend congratulations to the IPCA for the Formation of the Electronic Designers Council – Indian Chapter"
     
  • JAPAN-JPCA Chairman Mr.Masayuki Ito
    "It is our pleasure to hear the establishment of Electronic Designers Council Indian Chapter on October 12, 2001"
  • EUROPA- European  Federation  of  Interconnection  and  Packaging  (EFIP)’s  Executive  Director  Mr.Jo Warnier, Netherlands
    "we congratulate our friends from India  with the  inauguration  of the Council...  cooperation 
    between  associations  around  the  world is  becoming  extremely  important.   As  WECC 
    member it is encouraging to see that  these activities are in  close cooperation with a sister 
    association, especially with  IPC from  the  United States of America, having many years of 
    expertise and knowledge in the area of confernece and event organising.

"The packaging and Interconnection  industry is  a global industry, not limited by national or even   continental   boundaries.   Because the industry is changing at 
such a fast pace  the  service   and  productions  of associations has to adapt to 
their members’   requirements  The  ELECTRONIC DESIGNERS CONFERENCE
AND IPCA EXPO 2001 are examples of adapting to these changing environments
in which we all operate"

-CHINA- CPCA Secretary General Mr.Wang Longji

"on behalf of China Printed Circuit Association and myself, I would
like  to  extend  my  heartiest  congratulations to IPCA on the first
Inauguration  Ceremony  of   Electronic  Designers   Council -India
Chapter  and  the  successful holding of Technical Conference and
IPCA Expo 2001".
 
  • TAIWAN- TPCA Chairman Mr.Charles Wu
    "We believe that Electronic Designers Council will  successfully improve PCB industry not only
      of India but also of the whole world".
     
  • HKPCA, Hongkong Printed Circuit Association, Mr. Tom Tang, Chairman,HKPCA

"I wish you much success with your endeavours and look forward to many years of co-operation between IPCA and HKPCA to uphold and promote the interests of the PCB global community at large".

BRIEF ABOUT IPCA EXPO-2001 HELD DURING THE CONFERENCE

There were 11 stalls in    the EXPO  with global  participation  of a few leading electronic equipment manufacturers who promote activities  of design, production  technology and advanced raw materials required for PCB production and the list of participants are:

ERSA INDIA
BERGEN ELECTRONICS
LPKF LASER & ELECTRONIC AG, GERMANY
WALTER LEMMEN Gmbh, GERMANY
ELOCHEM RECYCLING Gmbh, GERMANY
SLN TECHNOLOGIES, INDIA
ALPHA IMAGER, INDIA
ISOLA ASIA PACIFIC(Phils) INC, INDIA
ADVANCED MICRONICS DEVICES, INDIA
AT & S INDIA LIMITED, INDIA
INDIAN PRINTED CIRCUIT ASSOCIATION, INDIA
 
  • A Souvenir  highlighting  the  technical presentations made during the seminar for the benefit of electronic community, was released on the 12th of October to mark this important occasion in the history of IPCA

TECHNICAL ARTICLES REPRODUCED IN THE SOUVENIR ARE:
  1. HISTORY AND BASICS OF PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS
    By Mr. Manfred Braun ,Joint Director, CEDTI-MOHALI
     
  2. INDIAN PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD INDUSTRY & IPCA- AN OVERVIEW 
    By Mr. R.Chellappa, Secretary General, IPCA

    3. THE PCB WORLD MARKET 
         By Mr. Manfred Braun, CEDTI, Mohali

  1. MICROVIAS FOR HIGH-DENSITY PWBs
    By Mr. Mahesh G.Varadharajan, Senior Scientific Officer, CEDT, IISC, Bangalore
     
  2. MECHANICAL DRILLING OF MICROVIA HOLES
    By Markus Schwarz, Posalux, SA, Switzerland
     
  3. THE USE OF PRINTED HEATSINKS TO SOLVE THERMAL PROBLEMS ON PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS
    By Mr. Lackweke Peters, Germany
     
  4. TECHNOLOGY TRENDS IN THE MINIATURIZATION OF ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS
    By Dr. Krishna Kumar, Director, MIT, New Delhi
     
  5. IPC ROADMAP ON THE DESIGN AND DATA TRANSFER ISSUES (DESIGN TO MANUFACTURING) IPC, USA
     
  6. DESIGN AND TEST TOOLS FOR CONTROLLED IMPEDANCE ON HIGH SPEED BOARDS
    By Mr. Amit Bhardwaj, MD, (Asia Pacific)
    M/s Polar Instruments( Singapore) Pte Ltd, Singapore
     
  7. EDWIN – A TRUELY WORLD CLASS ELECTRONICS DESIGN SOFT WARE 
    By Mr. M. Thiyagarajan, MD, Visionics India Pvt. Ltd;, & Alpha Imager Pvt. Ltd
     
  8. SIX SIGMA – IT WORKS 
    By Mr. Praveen Gupta, MD, Polar Instruments (Singapore), Pte Ltd, Singapore
     
  9. ELIMINATION OF LEAD IN THE ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 
    By Mr. Manfred Braun, CEDTI, Mohali
 

Those who are desirous of possessing a copy of the Souvenir published, may please contact us through our website email IDs.
  • For interested persons who would like to know more details on the activities of the newly formed ELECTRONIC DESIGNERS  COUNCIL  OF INDIA  (IPCA), and wish to enroll as its MEMEBRS, please contact   its  Executive  Director,   Mr. Thiyagarajan,  M/s Alpha  Imager,  Bangalore   through the Council’s website www.designersindia.org or that of IPCA www.ipcaindia.org
     
  • And  most  important  of  all,  the  effort  of  IPCA  in  organising  the  conference and the Expo was a great success.  The delegates  and  the guests  left  the  premises  of CEDTI-Mohali with good memories and an impression  of great  success,  after benefiting  themselves  with  the  enrichment  of updated technological presentations made in the Conference.
     

THUS THE ELECTRONIC DESIGNERS’ COUNCIL OF INDIA HAS EMERGED TO BE IN EXISTENCE IN PURSUIT OF TECHNOLOGY TO UPHOLD THE INTERESTS OF PCB INDUSTRY

This achievement wouldn’t have been possible
but for your active support and contribution.
Thank you!

President and the Executive Committee members of IPCA