Joint Silicon Valley/Ohio Valley Chapter Webinar: Automation & the Journey to the Smart Factory
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Thu, April 28, 2022 |
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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’.
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 Where:Webinar - You will receive the Zoom participation link upon registration Contact:Ridhi Kantelal |
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