“Demonstrating and certifying compliance with RoHS is a complex undertaking made more difficult by the electronics industry’s distributed design and manufacturing supply chains, and the incompatibility between the current tin-lead (SnPb) and RoHS-compliant lead-free manufacturing processes. The industry must have means of differentiating RoHS-compliant products that is common across all of the companies involved in, or contributing to, product manufacture, including component suppliers, component distributors, EMS providers, OEMs, and their design partners. We are convinced that the only practical way to accomplish this goal is through separate part numbers that can clearly identify RoHS compliance and manufacturing process compatibility,” according to a statement released by iNEMI.

(April 29, 2005) Aurora, Ill. &#8212 The U.S. Navy’s Calibration department, Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), had to replace an old CMM machine to advance their Metrology R&D department due to the rapid advancement of weapon technology. With this recent advancement, its needed measurement technology must also advance to enable correct determination of new system effectiveness.