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Environmental Partnership Hosts Two WESCON Forums:
ISO 14000: Implications for the Electronics Industry
and
Design for Environment in Electronics

Thursday, November 9, 1995
Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco

Both discussions are free to WESCON attendees.

ISO 14000: Implications for the Electronics Industry 
9:30 - 11:30 a.m. 
Learn about these new international standards on environmental management and

certification and their implications to the electronics industry. This is an
opportunity to 
hear directly from a panel of experts and ask them questions. ISO 14000 is
being modeled after the ISO 9000 Quality Standards to improve the quality and
effectiveness of environmental management, throughout industry -- worldwide.
These standards, which are scheduled to be released in 1996, will establish
criteria for business relationships, particularly for products involved with
international trade. The basic objective of the ISO 14000 standards are to
integrate environmental considerations with the overall business management
and decision making processes.

Speakers:
    Diana Bendz: Director of Integrated Safety Technology - IBM, & Chair of
IEEE 
Committee on EH&S
    Charles McGlashan: Director of Environmental Services - Coopers and
Lybrand
    Cliff Bast: Program Manager, Corporate Environmental Management - Hewlett
Packard
    Erin Craig: Senior Environmental Program Manager - Sun Microsystems
    Robert Lewcasher: Consultant - EMCON Associates
    John Powers (moderator): President - Integrated Solutions and Services,
and Executive 
Director of the National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative

Design for Environment in Electronics 
1 - 3 p.m. 
Learn about a comprehensive approach to designing environmentally-conscious
products 
that has gained rapid acceptance in the electronics industry. Practitioners
from several 
leading firms will describe their experience in applying Design for
Environment and will 
answer questions. With the advent of ISO 14000 standards and the growing
emphasis on 
producer responsibility, Design for Environment (DFE) is emerging as an
essential aspect 
of product development. DFE may be defined as systematic consideration during
product 
and process development of design issues that influence environmental quality
over the 
full product life cycle. DFE is one of many "concurrent engineering"
practices that help 
reduce time to market by simultaneously addressing all downstream aspects of
product 
quality, including design for testability, manufacturability, reliability,
and maintainability. The goal of DFE is to create products that minimize
hazards, reduce waste, and conserve valuable resources without compromising
their cost, quality, and schedule constraints.

Speakers:
    Joseph Fiksel: Vice President - Decision Focus Incorporated, & Editor &
Principal 
Author of "Design for Environment: Creating Eco-Efficient Products and
Processes," 
McGraw-Hill, September 1995
    Stan Roberts: Manager, Envtl. Technologies & Strategies, Engineering
Interface & 
Design Group- Apple
    Tom Korpalski: Manager, Product Stewardship - Hewlett Packard
Aime Shiovitz: Manager, Design for Environment, User-Centered Design Group -
Sun 
Microsystems
    Charles McGlashan (moderator): Director of Environmental Services -
Coopers and 
Lybrand

REGISTER through Wescon at 800-877-2668 ext. 218 or on the World Wide Web: 
http://wescon.com/wescon/

Admission to Wescon and attendance at the conferences are free of charge to
registered 
participants. Be sure to also visit the Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network
displays at 
Wescon.

The Environmental Partnership is an Initiative of Joint Venture: Silicon
Valley Network.

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