IPC India

Webinars for IPC Members IPC has several programs to its credit, which are meant to facilitate continuous learning for its members and other clients. These programs include: ·          Technical conferences ·          Professional development workshops ·          Technical webinars ·          Management conferences and ·          Online courses Wisdom Wednesday is a 30-minute webinar, conducted once or twice every month dedicated to educating IPC members on topics relevant to the industry. These sessions are led by industry experts who share their technical knowledge and insights. Free to members , Wisdom Wednesday is an opportunity to learn from some of the top minds in the industry. A member can learn more and enroll to attend these webinars thro...

Market Data Service Now Open to IPC-Member EMS Companies in India IPC is extending a valuable benefit of IPC Membership  to its members in India. Participation in IPC’s EMS Statistical Program gives members access to timely market data, as well as financial and operational bench-marking data, at no cost. In exchange for your participation in confidential quarterly surveys, you will receive the aggregate data and quarterly reports on the results. Members use the data to track changes in their market share, identify the fastest-growing markets, and benchmark their company’s sales and financial performance against industry averages. IPC protects the confidentiality of members’ data. Learn more about IPC’s statistical programs at www.ipc.org/StatPrograms . To participate in the EMS Statistical Program in 2019, members must sign up by the 01 April 2019 by contacting us at marketresearch@ipc.org .      Visit: www.ipcindia.org.i...

IPC EDGE IPC EDGE is an online, interactive and flexible 24/7 learning opportunity that facilitates quality assurance and is designed to deliver the education needed to develop the competitive skills necessary to excel in the electronics industry. IPC Edge is the educational resource for webinars, standards, and online foundational certification courses. IPC EDGE is convenient, easily accessible, and delivered to your laptop, tablet or phone at any time of day. With IPC EDGE, you can learn at your own pace, with exams with each course to help determine what learned and what you may need to work on. IPC EDGE covers topics ranging from components, Soldering, cable assembly to ESD. These courses can be learnt by the engineers and technicians for self-learning at their own time and place using their own computer. IPC Edge also provides opportunities to learn the basics of the IPC Certification Courses , to facilitate smooth sailing when one enrolls for the certificat...

IPC Standards Reference Library IPC India is maintaining a reference library at its Head Office at Jayanagar, Bengaluru for all the clients. The library is accessible during the office hours from 10:00 to 17:00 o’clock from Monday to Friday on all working days. The library contains copies of the popularly referred standards by the industry. Any member can visit IPC India office and refer to any available copy of the standard, which comes as a complimentary service to members. N on-members will have to pay basic nominal charges. This library will shortly go digital and only the soft copies will be available for the client’s view. It may be clarified that a copy of this can be viewed only at the IPC India office and it is not an online service for remote viewing. Clients are encouraged to visit IPC India office to refer to any of these standards during the office hours and benefit themselves by referring to these standards available in the library. Other comp...

Re-introduction of IPC India Newsletter IPC India has re-introduced the digital monthly news-letter, which is circulated to almost 6000 clients every month apart from being published in the IPC India Website . This upgraded news-letter carries information on latest happenings at IPC India as well as at IPC USA. This is a valuable information which will be useful to its esteemed clients and associates in many ways. It carries news on newly introduced standards and publication of upgraded version of standards. The newsletter also elaborates on the events that IPC India would have conducted or is scheduling to conduct in the near future. The events could include details of Hand Soldering Competition, PCB Design Competition, Standards’ review, Industry meet or an advanced professional course to be conducted by an industry professional on his topic relevant to Electronic Hardware Manufacturing Industry. The news-letter carries information on the course conducted in the c...

Standard Gap Analysis (SGA) IPC’s product offering of SGA – Standard Gap Analysis is part of the validation services that IPC offers to its clients. SGA is an offer for the customer to pre-determine his preparedness to go for a full-fledged audit or not.  An audit when ordered results in a pass or fail situation. If the audit fails, not only the whole of the exercise becomes a waste of money and other resources, it projects the company in a very poor light. To avoid this situation, a client can order an SGA, where IPC qualified auditors will do the audit as per IPC standards (only with respect to IPC standards and no other standards, please). The report of thus conducted SGA will bring out variations (deviations) from the IPC standards. The auditors will also give their recommendations for the improvements/ changes to plug the gaps and make the process IPC standards compliant. Post this SGA and recommendations, the client is having the option of adopting the sugg...

IPC Certified Electronics Program Manager (CEPM) Training and Certification Program IPC CEPM program is designed to provide Program Managers a balanced foundation of business skills and technical knowledge. In the highly competitive electronics industry, the knowledge and skills of staff is directly responsible for client services and program management can make or break the bottom line. The IPC Certified Electronics Program Manager (CEPM) Training and Certification course is designed to ensure that your team has the tools and training they need to provide the type of service that ensures clients for life. This new, instructor-led online course combines the educational benefits of live instruction and group discussions with the flexibility and cost-savings of e-learning. Taught by an IPC-certified industry expert with 30 years of experience in the field, the six-week program utilizes interactive webinars, on-demand recorded training, job-specific exercises, and te...

IPC Standards To achieve high quality end product and to maintain the competitive position in the market place, quality needs to be infused throughout the manufacturing process. This is where IPC STANDARDS come into play. IPC has published standards for many steps of the printed circuit manufacturing and assembly process, building from a foundation of solid design up to final acceptance . From design to assembly, IPC Standards helps you to maintain supreme quality, reliability and consistency in the electronic assemblies in your product. It is also important to implement the appropriate IPC Standard at each step during production to achieve the desired result. Use IPC Standards in Manufacturing Process to: Gain Control Over End Product Quality and Reliability  — Quality and reliability are the cornerstones for competing in the marketplace and critical to a company's reputation and profitability. By implementing IPC standards throughout the manufac...

IPC India - PCB Design Competition IPC India’s PCB Design Competition will put to test the skills of the PCB Designers and create an opportunity to compete with the best in the business. The contest will recognize  the best designers judged on the following criteria: CAD tool expertise. Perception of the Design Technology and application of the Design Standards. Overall understanding of the PCB Design requirements. Sensitivity to consequences of the Design Constraints on Down Stream Activities like, Fabrication and Assembly. In addition to gaining the recognition of their peers, participants will be able to benchmark their PCB Design skills against those of their design colleagues and receive recommendations from advanced certified designers (CID+) and world class specialists in the field on how to improve performance. IPC India recently conducted the first ever PCB Design Competition at the MMI Show during 26 – 28 September 2018 at BIEC, B...

Proactive Design for eXcellence process for High Speed Boards. Purpose Printed Wiring Boards used for High Speed Electronic Packaging are building blocks for high performance Communication equipment, are often product of contradicting performance requirements. Implementation of a particular design requirement will have a direct impact on other related product performance parameters. Electronic Product Packaging Steps are: List mentioned here in but not entirely limited to: o    Determining Interconnection levels. o    Product life cycle management. o    Relevance to technology roadmaps. o    Advanced Packaging drivers. o    Material and assembly cost drivers o    Dfx Process The list is endless, so at any given time a new meaningful Design requirement can make it to the prolonged process of design-review-redesign, However any design reviews are intended toward...