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Minutes of P-9 Committee on Test Methods and Procedures
October 10, 2001
Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, PA

Attendees
Diane L. Becknese Cooper Bussman
Daniel Giblin Cooper Busman
Cornelius Clark Cooper Electronic Technologies
Brian Piscitelli KOA Speer Electronics
Ferdinand Hilbert EPCOS AG
Mike Mosier

North American Capacitor

Carl Lindquist SAN-O Industrial Corp.
Yan Ma AEM
Ian Murdock ATC Corp
Stephen Olster Mini-Systems Inc.
Ralf Schuhmann EPCOS AG
Ed Mikoski EIA/ECA
Member Organizations Present
Present at Previous Meeting?
AEM No
ATC Corp. Yes
Cooper Bussman Yes
KOA Speer Electronics Yes
Mini-Systems Inc. Yes
North American Capacitor Yes
Panasonic Industrial Co. No
Member Organizations Absent
Present at Previous Meeting?
Agilent Technologies No
AVX Corporation Yes
Compaq No
Cornell-Dubilier Yes
IBM Corporation Yes
Kemet Corp Yes
Lucent Technologies No
Murata Electronics No
Presidio Components Yes
Taiyo Yuden Yes
Vishay Yes
CTS Yes
Other Organizations Present
EIA/ECA  
EPCOS, Inc.  
San-O Industrial Corp.  

1.0 Introductions
Self-introductions were made.

2.0 Committee Organization and Procedures

2.1 Membership and Attendance
The Chair took attendance and determined that there was NO quorum present. The group decided to continue to discuss plans for the next meeting. The Chair announced that he believed due to the economic conditions and to recent tragic events imposing corporate decisions to impose travel bans, that additional individuals who planned to attend could not. The Chair believes that the turnout for the April 2002 meeting will be in good shape to conduct business.

2.2 Approval of Agenda
The committee attendees agreed to go over the agenda items.

2.3 Approval of October, 2000 Meeting Minutes
Since there was no quorum, the approval of the meeting minutes for the Wednesday, 25 April 2001 meeting at the Hyatt Hotel in San Antonio were deferred to the next meeting of the committee.

2.4 Correspondence
The Chair introduced a DSCC report of the status of the MIL-STD-202 Rev G process that he received from Patrick Kyne at DSCC-VAT. The completion schedule for the G Revision is 30 December 2001. A note on the report stated that Mr. Kyne was surprised at the lack of response to the proposed revision and initial drafts. It further stated that e-mail notices were sent to between 400 and 500 addresses and he received responses from about 20 individuals/companies.

2.5 Review of the Committee's Scope
At the previous meeting, a letter from Paul Krystek was read on his proposal for the scope revision. No comments were received from the committee. It appears that there is no intention to change the Scope at the present time. This should be affirmed at the next meeting.

3.0 Reports

3.1 DSCC report
DSCC report is attached to minutes. DSCC asked P-9 which of the Mil-202 standards should be updated first. DSCC has already completed a review of several of their standards, but if a list of the highest priority standards were available, DSCC would address them first. A task group was formed to review and advise DSCC of the priority for standards review.

3.2 ETC (Environmental Testing Committee) Report
Ed Mikoski agreed to look into the status of this body since the reorganization of the EIA into an alliance.

3.3 STC (Soldering Technology Committee) Report
The STC conducted a session during this week at the ECA Fall Engineering Summit. Minutes will appear on the ECA website: www.ec-central.com .

3.4 Report on the U-1 Committee
The U-1 committee met this week at the Summit, and the minutes will appear on the ECA website.

4.0 Old Business

4.1 Review of EIA-186-E (PN-4955), "Standard Test Methods for Passive Electronic Component Parts: General Instructions and Index of Tests"
The group agreed that it is now time to review and revise the 186 Test Procedures based upon the DSCC revisions of the MIL documents.

5.0 New Business
No new Business

6.0 Next Meeting
The next meeting will be at the 4th Engineering Summit the week of 14 April, 2002 in Albuquerque, NM at the Sheraton Old Town Hotel.

7.0 Adjournment
The session ended at approximately3:15 PM.

This meeting was conducted in accordance with the EIA legal guidelines and the manual of organization and procedures.

Mike Mosier, Chairman
Signature on file

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

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