[labnetwork] More on buddy system and a labnetwork suggestion / Fwd: 24/7 operations

[John Shott]

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/*
>
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>
> */jrweaver at purdue.edu/*
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