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

[Weaver, John R]

It rotates cities. It was in Chicago this year and Reno last year. I'm not sure where 2013 is scheduled to be, but I'll check. We may be able to influence the location in out years, but I think 2013 is already set - I just don't remember where.

John

John R. Weaver
Facility Manager
Birck Nanotechnology Center
Purdue University
(765) 494-5494
jrweaver at purdue.edu

From: John Shott [mailto:shott at stanford.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 4:43 PM
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Cc: John Weaver
Subject: Re: [labnetwork] More on buddy system and a labnetwork suggestion / Fwd: 24/7 operations

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<mailto:jrweaver at purdue.edu>

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