[labnetwork] More on buddy system and a labnetwork suggestion / Fwd: 24/7 operations
John Shott
shott at stanford.edu
Tue Jun 7 16:42:53 EDT 2011
John:
Thanks for your comments. Note: if anyone is a clueless as I was until
5 minutes ago, IEST is Institute for Environmental Sciences and
Technology. I think that this is an interesting proposal. I don't want
to take away anything from UGIM .... it has, despite being primarily a
device and technology conference, come to be known as THE place where
lab managers get together to compare notes and share best practices
related to a variety of facility and operational issues. It would
certainly appear, however, as if there is demand for an annual meeting
to discuss the management, operation, and facility/equipment needs of
the growing number of clean rooms and nano-* facilities. My guess is
that there will be a lively discussion of how to best meet that need but
I think that ideas that somehow back fill the biannual UGIM meetings
with a meeting in the off-UGIM years would be a good idea. One of the
nice things about UGIM, in my view, is that it is small enough that it
can be hosted at or near a facility that is of interest to this
community. John, does ESTECH rotate cities, or is it normally held in
Orlando?
Thanks,
John
On 6/7/2011 6:49 AM, Weaver, John R wrote:
>
> If there is an interest, I have a great forum for us to use as an
> every-year meeting on facility operations. I have just gone onto the
> Executive Board of IEST, and we have been having some really good
> discussions about where we want to go with fabrication facilities.
> Right now we have been concentrating on design issues, but we could
> very easily add operational issues to the agenda. The IEST meets every
> year in May, generally the first week.
>
> If it looks like this is something that has significant interest, we
> can look at ESTECH 2013 to kick off an operations symposium. Long
> term, we may want to consider combining UGIM with ESTECH in years when
> UGIM would normally meet, and use ESTECH as a free-standing conference
> in alternate years.
>
> For those who are not familiar with IEST, that is the organization
> that has been the technical arm of cleanroom design and operation
> since the 1960s. It is the secretariat for many of the ISO standards
> in both cleanrooms and now nanotechnology. The standard for cleanroom
> classification -- now ISO, formerly Federal Standard 209 -- was
> written by the IEST. It would be a great forum for our group, now that
> we have moved away from devices and toward facilities, especially
> facility operation.
>
> What are the thoughts of the group?
>
> John
>
> */John R. Weaver/*
>
> */Facility Manager/*
>
> */Birck Nanotechnology Center/*
>
> */Purdue University/*
>
> */(765) 494-5494/*
>
> */jrweaver at purdue.edu/*
>
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