DfR Solutions in San Jose & San Francisco, CA: March 21-24

Gregg Kittlesen and Ed Dodd will be visiting companies in the San Francisco, California, area in mid-March to present on a number of topics, including design for reliability, component qualification, and root-cause analysis. If you and your associates are interested in an onsite visit and/or presentation, contact June Caswell, jcaswell@dfrsolutions.com.

DfR Solutions in Manila, The Philippines: March 21-25

Craig Hillman will be visiting companies in the Manila area from March 21st through March 25th. If you and your associates are interested in an onsite visit and/or presentation, please contact June Caswell, jcaswell@dfrsolutions.com.

DfR's Walt Tomczykowski appears in Crime Inc: Counterfeit Goods on Sunday, Mar. 20th

The one hour CNBC show Crime Inc: Counterfeit Goods will air again on Sunday March 20^th at 8PM ET. DfR's Walt Tomczykowski appears on screen twice during the defense and aerospace segment between 20 and 30 past the hour.

Crime Inc: Counterfeit Goods

Fake handbags, watches, shoes and perfumes. The business of Counterfeit Goods is the largest underground industry in the world. Hundreds of billions of dollars are generated while sapping the economy, putting lives in jeopardy, and funding organized crime in the process.

CNBC’s "Crime Inc.: Counterfeit Goods," takes viewers on a rare look inside a global crime spree, where the goods are produced and confiscated in a world of high-risk and high-reward.

Host Carl Quintanilla takes you on raids with the LAPD anti-counterfeiting unit, inspections at ports, and back-room factories where counterfeits are produced. Meet a company whose whole brand was copied, and the story of a defense contractor who counterfeit defense parts that found their way into weapons depots in Iraq.

At around 7% of all global trade, Counterfeit Goods are a big business with low overhead. It makes too much money to go away any time soon.

DfR Presenting at the Warranty Chain Management Conference on March 15th in San Diego, CA.

DfR's Fred Schenkelberg is co-presenting a workshop on "Taming Warranty Costs At New Product Release And Product Launch" at the International Conference on Warranty Chain Management in San Diego on Tuesday, March 15th.

While Fred is in San Diego, he will be meeting with area companies. If you'd like to schedule an onsite visit, please contact Fred Schenkelberg, fschenkelberg@dfrsolutions.com or June Caswell, jcaswell@dfrsolutions.com.

DfR Assessment of Integrated Circuit Wearout Published by IEEE

Recognizing DfR's ground-breaking tool for the prediction of integrated circuit reliability and wearout, collaboratively developed with AVSI and Professor Yosef Bernstein, IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement magazine has published Ed Wyrwas' article, "Quantitatively Analyzing the Performance of Integrated Circuits and Their Reliability." For more information on this topic and how your future designs will require this type of analysis, contact Ed Wyrwas, ewyrwas@dfrsolutions.com.

DfR's Google Calendar

Look for DfR at upcoming events, conferences, webinars, and sales visits that may be in your area on our new link to Google Calendar. For more information on a specific activity, please contact June Caswell, jcaswell@dfrsolutions.com.

DfR Launches the Shock and Vibration Partnership

With companies representing a range of industries (medical, military, avionics, solder), DfR Solutions launched the Shock and Vibration Partnership on January 21, 2011. This activity will use a combination of simulation and testing to identify the most effective vibration and shock mitigations. Solutions such as underfill, staking compounds, dummy ball, solder alloy, and corner slots will be benchmarked in regard to cost, manufacturability, effect on thermal cycling, and ability to mitigate shock and vibration damage. If you would like more information on this activity, contact Joelle Arnold, jarnold@dfrsolutions.com.