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Minutes of P-4 Committee on Mechanical Outlines of Passive Components
October 8, 2002
Marriott City Center, Charlotte, NC

Members Present
Name
Organization
   
Daniel Giblin Cooper Bussman    
Laird Macomber Cornell Dubilier    
Ed Mikoski EIA/ECA    
Mike Lauri IBM    
Brian Piscitelli KOA Speer Electronics, Inc.    
Terry Charles Panasonic    
Patrick Kyne DSCC    
Michael Mosier Vishay/Mallory    
Ted Coler Vishay    
Mark Cohen Maxwell Technologies    
Ming Li AEM    
Len Metzger Panasonic    
Member Organizations Present
Present at this meeting?
Present at Previous Meeting?
Meeting prior previous?
Cooper Bussman
Yes
Yes
Yes
Panasonic Industrial Co.
Yes
Yes
Yes
KOA Speer Electronics
Yes
Yes
Yes
Vishay/Mallory
Yes
No
No
Cornell-Dubilier
Yes
Yes
No
IBM Corporation
Yes
Yes
No
Vishay
Yes
No
No
AEM
Yes
No
No
Member Organizations Absent
Present at this meeting?
Present at Previous Meeting?
Meeting prior previous?
SAN-O Industrial Corp.
No
Yes
Yes
Littelfuse, Inc.
No
No
Yes
Lucent Technologies
No
No
Yes
KEMET Corp.
No
Yes
No
SEI Electronics
No
Yes
No
Taiyo Yuden
No
No
Yes
Other Organizations Present
DSCC      
EIA/ECA      
Maxwell Technologies      

1.0 Introductions
The meeting was called to order at 10:35 a.m. A round of self-introductions was conducted.

2.0 Committee Organization and Procedures

2.1 Membership and Attendance
The membership list was reviewed and adjusted to read as reflected in the following table. A quorum was present.

2.2 Approval of Agenda
The Committee unanimously accepted the Agenda as with the deletion of Nick Marshall under 3.2.

2.3 Approval of April 2001 San Antonio, TX Meeting Minutes
The minutes of the April 2002 San Antonio, TX meeting were approved.

2.4 Correspondence
The chairman received one correspondence from Mike Griffith of the P-10 committee. Mike sent P-10's outlines in .PDF format to be updated into the newly formatted PDP-100.

Ed Mikoski from EIA/ECA did have some correspondence from Carl Lindquist who could not attend the meeting. The correspondence is summarized in the attached handout titled "ECA Mechanical Outlines".

2.5 Review of the Committee's Scope
The wording of the committee scope was unchanged.

2.6 Working Group Reports
No working group reports were presented.

3.0 Old Business

3.1 Reformatting of PDP-100 (Electronically for the Web) - Carl Lindquist
Below is a little background from the previous minutes which outlines the work which Carl performed to bring PDP-100 into an electronic format.

Background
"Carl Lindquist presented his work on a proposed database for components that would eventually replace the PDP-100 document and be more useful for the industry. He demonstrated the database that he had his engineering people prepared and demonstrated some fuse documents from his company. The group approved the concept. The next step is to get the ECA database contact together with the San-O Industrial Corp database expert to convey the basic concept of the database.

The database search engine can be seen at www.sanodevelopment.com/search-new1.asp or www.sanodevelopmant.com/initial-search.asp . The database allows parts to be selected by the following: Mounting, Type, Termination, Format, Length, Width, and Height. The discussion came up to add electrical parameters to the database. A standard electrical parameter format must first be established."

New Information from the Fall/Charlotte Meeting
Due to some issues at San-O Industrial the electronic database of PDP-100 is no longer on the San-O website. Carl is saving the database and programming on a CD which will be sent to Ed at EIA/ECA for Ed to find a new home for the database. This will now be maintained by EIA/ECA.

Attached is correspondence from Carl Lindquist (reference section 2.4 above). This report outlines the newly developed/proposed part numbering system for PDP-100. The task group of Carl Lindquist, Terry Charles, Dan Giblin, and Brian Piscitelli will review the correspondence and hold a conference call sometime during the first week of November to decide if this proposed part numbering system is the way to go.

3.2 Other
No other topics were discussed.

4.0 New Business

4.1 Review of PDP-100
The group has decided to review all outlines in PDP-100 and over the next several meetings. One hour of the meetings will be set aside for the group to one by one review the outlines and determine if they should be converted to the newly developed electronic format and proposed updated part numbers. If there are any questions the committee will defer to the responsible P-panel.

4.2 Review of Open Projects
There were currently two documents at the SP Level (SP-2567 and SP-2960), the committee unanimously voted to delete the two open projects.

4.3 Selection of New Chairman and Vice-Chairman
The committee unanimously voted Carl Lindquist to the New Chairman and Ted Coler to Vice-Chairman.

5.0 Next Meeting
The next meeting will be at the 6th ECA Spring Engineering Summit the week of 14 April 2003 at Tempe, Arizona.

6.0 Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 11:45 a.m.

This meeting was conducted in accordance with the EIA Legal Guidelines and the Manual of Organization and Procedures.


Brian Piscitelli, Chairperson
Signature on file

Edward F. Mikoski, Jr., Acting Secretary
Signature on file

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