www.smema.org

IPC SMEMA Council is made up of suppliers to the electronics assemblers, particularly equipment manufacturers. It initiates and drives technical, managerial, and financial programs to enhance the working relationships and equipment compatibility within the electronics assembly industry. The SMEMA machine interface standards were developed to facilitate the interface of equipment used in the manufacture of surface-mounted printed circuit boards. This standard has been adopted for use in the Microscan prototypes.

www.central-conveyors.co.uk

Prettys Belting is a manufacturer of conveyor systems and supplier of conveyor components and consumables. They have given advice and worked closely with the Microscan partners in the design of the conveyor systems used for the Microscan project.

www.pcbyellowpages.com

PCBYellowPages is an online directory listing information and contact details for companies involved in the PCB industry.

www.PCBLibraries.com

Developers of the industry's #1 land pattern calculator and library generator tool. Software tools facilitate creation and management of a single library documentation database for any CAD format library. Additional plugins for a variety of CAD formats will automatically create the library parts in your native CAD format, greatly reducing the human error factor, as well as most redundancy and library chaos. All you need is the component data sheet and 3 to 5 minutes per part!

www.smartgroup.org

The SMART Group Aims to Promote the Advancement of the Electronics Manufacturing Industry through the Education, Training and Notification of its Members in Surface Mount and Related Assembly Technologies, and by the Promotion of a Community of Electronics Manufacturing Professionals.

www.leadoutproject.com

LEADOUT, LowCost Lead-Free Soldering Technology to Improve the Competitiveness of European SMEs , is one of the largest European funded Projects, on lead-free technologies under the scope of 6th Framework SME oriented activities. The main objective of the project is to provide technical support to a wide range of SMEs spread all over Europe in the development of technological solutions for the problems resulting from the replacement of tin-lead solders in the electronics industry. The project also covers environmental impact and life cycle evaluation as well as lead free process benchmarking.

www.everythingpcb.com

EverythingPCB The Printed Circuit Industries Product, Service & Resource Guide.

www.twi.co.uk

TWI (The Welding Institute), provides industry with engineering solutions in welding, joining and associated technologies including soldering and adhesives through information; advice and technology transfer; consultancy and project support; contract R&D; training and qualification; and personal membership.