Pb-Free Electronics Risk Management Consortium (PERM) Denny Fritz describes in a video interview at IPC Midwest, in Sept 2009, the efforts of the Pb-Free Electronics Risk Management Consortium, a group formed by the aerospace and defense industries to tackle the critical issues surrounding lead-free. http://www.realtimewith.com/pages/show.cgi?rtwsid=25&rtwvid=1106&c=0 The PERM website is http://www.aia-aerospace.org/resource_center/affiliate_sites/perm/ I've recently joined PERM and attended the third PERM meeting at the DOE facility Y-12 at Oak Ridge TN this past week. Bob Landman, President Life Senior Member, IEEE IEEE Power & Energy/Reliability Societies IEEE Standards Association H&L Instruments, LLC www.hlinstruments.com/