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iNEMI / IPC Workshop at Electronics Goes Green 2024: How to Address Circularity Challenges in Electronics Manufacturing


There’s No End to a Circle
A workshop on how to address circularity challenges in electronics manufacturing

When & Where?

Electronics Goes Green 2024+
June 18-20, 2024  
Conference Center of the H4 Hotel Berlin Alexanderplatz
Berlin, Germany

iNEMI / IPC Workshop
Monday, June 17, 2024  |  2:00-6:00 p.m.  
Workshop B2
Location: Grenander 3
Maximum participants: 40
Participation is free of charge; book via ConfTool.
 

About the Workshop

This and several other workshops are scheduled on Monday, June 17, prior to the start of the full Electronics Goes Green conference on June 18.

Hosted by iNEMI and IPC, this workshop will scope industry solutions to address pressing circularity challenges. Circularity means that electronics manufacturers have systems and processes in place that address remanufacturing, recycling, repairability, reusability, upgradability, and resource efficiency. Solutions driven by industry will help enable efficient and effective adoption of circularity through the electronics manufacturing value chain. 

We plan to use this forum to develop foundational content for new industry standards, tools, and workforce education and to define next steps for iNEMI and IPC to assist industry in addressing challenges.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Who Should Attend

Attendees of this workshop should be procurement officers, policy experts, and technical experts who will work together in small teams to develop initial scopes for electronics industry solutions that address pressing circularity challenges. 


Workshop Outcomes

At the end of the workshop, we will have foundational content for new industry standards, tools, and workforce education. We will also define next steps that will lead to work by iNEMI and IPC to assist the industry with:
  • Problem statements 
  • Template for an educational vehicle
  • Scopes of work
  • Preferences for vehicles to deliver standards, education, certification, validation, advocacy, R&D
Before the conference, we will send read-ahead / thought questions to registrants. 
During the workshop we will have break-out sessions and an app-driven survey.
After the workshop, we will publish a short article / blog and conduct follow-up webinars.
 

Preliminary Agenda

Time Topic / Activity

2:00

Introduction and keynote speakers

2:45

IPC and iNEMI roles

  • IPC standards
  • iNEMI R&D projects, roadmap 
  • How to get more involved

3:05

Problem statement development 
Session Introduction — what are the challenges you see?
Roundtable discussions (several groups)

  • What is the problem?
  • Why is it a problem?
  • Where is it a problem (by geography, supply chain segment, company size)?

4:45

Review and discuss problem statements defined by roundtable discussions

  • Suggest possible solutions

5:15

Summarize, prioritize and discuss problems and possible solutions

5:40

Next steps and close 
How to get more involved – IPC (standards) iNEMI (projects)
July 17 webinar
 

Join Us Online in July — iNEMI/IPC Webinar on Circular Economy

This webinar is for people who participate in the circular economy workshop at EGG as well as those who could not attend but would like to join the conversation. We will be continuing — and building on — the discussion about solutions needed to enable circular economic principles in the electronics industry. The webinar is open to industry; advance registration is required. Get additional details.

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 
10:00-11:00 a.m. EDT (Americas)
4:00-5:00 p.m. CEST (Europe)
10:00-11:00 p.m. CST (China)


Contact

If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact Mark Schaffer (marks@inemi.org).


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