Joint Silicon Valley/Ohio Valley Chapter Webinar: Automation & the Journey to the Smart Factory

SMTA Joint Webinar

(Silicon Valley/Ohio Valley Chapters)

"Automation and the Journey to the Smart Factory"

Speaker: Happy Holden

Thursday, April 28, 2022

12:00 – 1:00 pm Pacific

Virtual Meeting

You will receive an email confirmation and a link to join the event upon registration.

 Non-Members fee: $30, SMTA Members: Free

Technical Presentation:

Although everyone is proposing that INDUSTRY 4.0 is the path to ‘DIGITIZATION’ in our modern times, the process of automation has been going on since the 1980s. The presentation covers the strategy started in the 1980s with the ‘CASA CIM Wheel’ (Computer and Automated System Association Computer Integrated Manufacturing) and details on a “Automation Methodology” that worked very successfully in ‘GETTING STARTED’ and finding a successful ‘FIRST STEP FOR AUTOMATION’.

Today, the automation implementation has many more options, but it still starts with ‘sensors’.  For electronics manufacturing, some of the sensors are highlighted, as well as data acquisition (DAQ) systems.  The difficulty may come from selecting a protocol standard to bring the data from the machines and process up to the management software.  And the big benefit, predicting performance outcomes from Digital Twins. The five main industry protocols are discussed along with the presenter’s prediction as to ‘who’ may win.

Biography:

Happy Holden has been in electronics manufacturing since his graduate degree in ‘Control Theory’ and a BS in ChE.  He was recruited by Hewlett-Packard in 1970 to be part of the new Microwave Thin-Film Fabrication facility in Palo Alto, CA.  Shortly after, he was assigned to help the struggling printed circuit organization expand and automate to meet the growing demand for company calculators.   Over the next 25 years he helped to manage for the company in Asia the growing Application Center in Taiwan and Application Technical marketing in Hong Kong.  Returning to the US, he managed the company’s Packaging R&D until retirement in 2000. He then joined the US and EU distributor for the Taiwan PCB fabricator he started for the company in 1985 as their R&D Director and then joined Foxconn as the CTO for components. He was then Innovation Director for GENTEX in Zeeland, MI.  He is a Contributing Technical Editor of I-Connect007. 

MTA Ohio Valley and Silicon Valley Chapters are proud to present an upcoming webinar:

When:Thursday, April 28, 2022
12:00-1:00 pm Pacific

Where:Webinar - You will receive the Zoom participation link upon registration
United States

Contact:Ridhi Kantelal
ridhi.kantelal@gmail.com