

There was similar push at our day jobs, which made sense. One month later, we were all caught in the grips of a lockdown and a pandemic, and we planned to transition to online meetings. We achieved the first draft industry review (FDIR) milestone right after IPC APEX EXPO 2020. While some of these were editorial or overcome by events (OBE), there were still quite a few for a mostly all volunteer task group. There were more than 1,700 comments submitted to the H revision, including those from the IPC-A-610 Task Group. The latest revision of the J-Standard was mostly completed online with working group meetings.

The J-STD-001 is the material and process requirements used for manufacturing of electronic assemblies. One of the most frequent questions I was asked during the last year was about the biggest changes in revision H of the IPC J-STD-001 Requirements for Soldered Electrical and Electronic Assemblies.
