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IPC has changed its terms and conditions. As from 1 January 2020 it will no longer be possible to get a temporary extension of your IPC certification. Re-certification can be done up to six months before the certification expires. Example: Suppose that your certification expires on 14 September 2020. You can already participate in a re-certification course as from 14 March 2020, while still retaining the original date of your certification. When you do your re-certification on e.g. [...]

For 2020 PIEK has greatly extended its training calendar. This means that you now have a wider choice of training courses where you can send your employees to follow a training course. Apart from this, PIEK still offers to come to you to give a course. More and more customers appreciate the possibility of these in-company courses. The 2020 PIEK training calendar is now ready and includes all IPC and all PIEK training courses: piek.international/training-calendar/. The only IPC [...]

This year too PIEK is present at the Munich Productronica fair, together with IPC. This world famous fair is taking place from 12-15 November 2019. This year the fair will again be overflowing with innovations, and experts in all sorts of fields will exchange ideas all the time. Themes like the electronics of the future, trends in various industries, growth markets, investment opportunities, etc. will be discussed throughout the fair. Topics to be discussed during the fair will [...]

PIEK regularly hosts defence staff from all over the world taking an IPC certification course. Air force, navy and land force staffers are always welcome guests at PIEK. Recently a number of staff members of the Pakistani navy were active in the IPC-7711/7721 CIS certification course at PIEK’s Heerlen head office. PEK spoke to two of them. The first interviewee, Ejaz, is responsible for a number of laboratories where PCBs are repaired. The second, Waqas, has been repairing [...]

Ben Walls, PIEK´s Managing Director, attended a presentation by FIR Managing Director Ralf Bigge. FIR is a non-profit, multidisciplinary research and development institute at the RWTH Aachen University in the field of corporate organisations, information logistics and corporate IT. Its aim is to lay the organisational foundation for the digitally integrated industry of the future. By researching innovative solutions and providing them to companies, FIR contributes to enhancing the competitive powers of companies. FIR has the right infrastructure [...]