BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260124T214857Z UID:93C1B74A-59FC-4063-B63C-F6616971A2FB DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260120T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260120T200000 DESCRIPTION:Getting the Lead (Pb) Out:\n\nReflections on the Implementation of\n\nEnvironmentally Friendly Materials in Electronics\n\nThe European U nion’s (EU) Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive 2002/95/EC (or RoHS Directive) took effect on July 1\, 2006\, restricting the use of six hazardous substances in the manufacturing of electrical and electronic eq uipment placed on the market in the EU. When the Directive was first annou nced and executed\, there were permitted exemptions to allow the use of th ese otherwise restricted substances for certain product applications or fu nctions. Exemptions were valid until suitable replacement materials became available. Examples of exemptions included the use of lead in solders for servers and lead in solders for flip chips.\n\nSubstantial research and d evelopment activities by IBM\, academia\, industry consortia and numerous other companies in the electronics industry were required to comply with R oHS requirements and to introduce replacement materials and processes. The exemption for the use of lead solders in servers expired in July 2016. IB M Systems completed a successful transition prior to the required deadline \, capping more than 10 years of progress in lead-free alloy and process d evelopment.\n\nThis presentation will provide background on the initial im plementation of RoHS with a focus on the multi-year effort to overcome sig nificant technical challenges in eliminating lead solder from IBM Systems server and storage hardware. The IBM Supply Chain Engineering and Developm ent teams received numerous industry accolades for their advancement of th e technology required for this transition.\n\nAll are welcome! You do not need to be an IEEE Member to attend.\n\nSpeaker(s): Marie\, \n\nVirtual: h ttps://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/513957 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/513957 ORGANIZER:ieee.lvs.wie@gmail.com SEQUENCE:13 SUMMARY:Women in Sustainability Series 2026 - Getting the Lead (Pb) Out: Ma rie Cole URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/513957 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: cente r\;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt\; line-height: 107%\; f ont-family: 'Arial'\,sans-serif\; color: black\;">Getting the Lead (Pb) Ou t:</span></p>\n<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center\;" align="ce nter"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt\; line-height: 107%\; font-family: 'A rial'\,sans-serif\; color: black\;">Reflections on the Implementation of</ span></p>\n<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center\;" align="center "><span style="font-size: 16.0pt\; line-height: 107%\; font-family: 'Arial '\,sans-serif\; color: black\;">Environmentally Friendly Materials in Elec tronics</span></p>\n<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify\;"><sp an style="font-size: 16.0pt\; line-height: 107%\; font-family: 'Arial'\,sa ns-serif\; color: black\;">&nbsp\;</span></p>\n<p class="MsoNormal" style= "text-align: justify\;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt\; line-height: 107% \; font-family: 'Arial'\,sans-serif\;">The European Union&rsquo\;s (EU) Re striction of Hazardous Substances Directive 2002/95/EC (or RoHS Directive) took effect on July 1\, 2006\, restricting the use of six hazardous subst ances in the manufacturing of electrical and electronic equipment placed o n the market in the EU. When the Directive was first announced and execute d\, there were permitted exemptions to allow the use of these otherwise re stricted substances for certain product applications or functions. Exempti ons were valid until suitable replacement materials became available. Exam ples of exemptions included the use of lead in solders for servers and lea d in solders for flip chips.</span></p>\n<p class="MsoNormal" style="text- align: justify\;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt\; line-height: 107%\; fon t-family: 'Arial'\,sans-serif\;">Substantial research and development acti vities by IBM\, academia\, industry consortia and numerous other companies in the electronics industry were required to comply with RoHS requirement s and to introduce replacement materials and processes. The exemption for the use of lead solders in servers expired in July 2016. IBM Systems compl eted a successful transition prior to the required deadline\, capping more than 10 years of progress in lead-free alloy and process development.</sp an></p>\n<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify\;"><span style="f ont-size: 10.0pt\; line-height: 107%\; font-family: 'Arial'\,sans-serif\;" >This presentation will provide background on the initial implementation o f RoHS with a focus on the multi-year effort to overcome significant techn ical challenges in eliminating lead solder from IBM Systems server and sto rage hardware.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes\;">&nbsp\; </span>The IBM Sup ply Chain Engineering and Development teams received numerous industry acc olades for their advancement of the technology required for this transitio n.</span></p>\n<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify\;"><span st yle="font-size: 10.0pt\; line-height: 107%\; font-family: 'Arial'\,sans-se rif\;">&nbsp\;</span></p>\n<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify \;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt\; line-height: 107%\; font-family: 'Ari al'\,sans-serif\;">All are welcome! You do not need to be an IEEE Member t o attend.&nbsp\;</span></p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR