Technical Committee 6 Meeting at ECTC 2005
on High Density Substrates and Boards

On Wednesday (June 1st) morning, the High Density Substrates and Boards TC-6 had a seven Committee Member meeting chaired by Dr. Yoshitaka Fukuoka (third from right in picture). Dr. Paul Wesling also attended as adviser.

The first discussed item regarded member change confirmation. Mr. Rokuro Kambe (NTK) was replaced by new member Mr. Yukihiro Kimura (NTK) in April. Mr. Kisho Yokouchi (Fujitsu Labs) changed from USA to Japan regional member. There was much discussion regarding increasing international region membership, because to date TC-6 has consisted of mostly Japanese committee member. At the same time, committee communications and meetings in a local area are very convenient. TC-6 will have to continue to discuss this issue.

The second agenda item regarded details for operation of the CPMT TC-6 Seminar "Advanced Flexible Circuit Board Technologies" scheduled for the evening of June 2nd. Our biggest concern was the late seminar starting time at 7:30 p.m. Ways to increase attendance at late evening meetings were discussed. Seminar speakers were invited to this morning meeting for introduction to one another and explanation of a preparatory plan. (The CPMT seminar attracted over 80 audience members in spite of the fact that it was a late evening meeting.)

The last item regarded preparation of next seminar at ECTC 2006. For this item, TC-6 will have next committee meeting at Tokyo in August. We will fix the main theme of our next seminar, and we will initiate a call for papers.(working TC picture)

-- submitted by Kishio Yokouchi, TC-6 committee member