This is Part 2 of our series on hazardous substance process management.

In this episode we cover:

* Taiwan's electronics industry as the birth of Hazardous Substance Process Management

* Why Taiwan saw QC 080000 as a means to ease ROHS compliance

* The passing of ROHS-type legislation in California 

* How audits from registrars such as Intertek strengthen ROHS compliance

In this episode, Craig Howell, owner and president of CPM Labs, shows us how to use and care for a torque wrench. 

* How to use them
* How they work
* Calibration
* How to care for them

* Also shown: torque transducers and torque display

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SmartGD&T

An Advanced Beginner's Course

Presented by Bill Tandler, founder and president of Multi Metrics Inc.

Produced by Quality Digest and Musselman Pictures at the 2008 CMSC in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Episode 3 Content

* Features and Feature Components

* Detail looks at Geometry Control Tools for Size, Form, Orientation and Location

* Feature Control Frame types: Compound versus Composite.

SmartGD&T

An Advanced Beginner's Course

Presented by Bill Tandler, founder and president of Multi Metrics Inc.

Produced by Quality Digest and Musselman Pictures at the 2008 CMSC in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Episode 2 Content:

* The shortcomings of Classical tolerancing

* The GD&T tool kit

* An overview of the perfect imaginary world of GD&T

* GD&T at work.