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20 DESIGN007 MAGAZINE I OCTOBER 2023 Feature Interview by Andy Shaughnessy I-CONNECT007 For this issue about standards, we inter- viewed Jen Kolar, VP of engineering, and Cory Grunwald, director of designer development, at Monsoon Solutions, a design bureau in Bel- levue, Washington. In this conversation, Jen and Cory explain how they created the com- pany's internal documentation process around the requirements of IPC standards. ey also discuss their onboarding system for new hires, including the standards that the new designers should become familiar with. How about if you start by discussing your protocol for new hires, and the standards that your onboarding process is built around? Cory Grunwald: Sure. When bringing on a new designer, we have a lot of internal Monsoon documentation and standards that tend to work specifically for ourselves and our custom- ers. If we're teaching our new designers how to do footprints, we've got our own quick refer- ence guide on footprint creation, as well as ref- erences to IPC-7351. e designers know that if they can't find it in our internal documenta- tion, they can go to the IPC standard. We usu- ally provide the quick reference guide for our documentation and a handful of good-to-know IPC specs for designers, such as IPC-7351, Generic Requirements for Surface Mount Design and Land Pattern, and IPC-2221, Generic Stan- A Standards-driven Design Environment