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64 I-CONNECT007 I REAL TIME WITH... IPC APEX EXPO 2019 SHOW & TELL MAGAZINE Xi: Not this time, but I will normally visit the United States two or three times every year because we have lots of our vendors and part- ners there. I will also join the IPC Board of Directors meetings when I'm there. Goldman: What IPC committees and standards have you been most actively involved in? Xi: For standard activities, I was primarily involved with IPC China organization 10 years ago and I am also a member of IPC's Asia com- mittee. At that time, Chinese companies were users of IPC standards. We wanted to under- stand the standards, so we translated the Eng- lish version into a clear Chinese version. This was a huge translation task where I worked very closely with David Bergman to set up a list of the most frequent used standards. Also, as a manager, I encouraged my team members to join this task, so about 10 peo- ple from my group—which is mainly from my team in Huawei—became involved in this translation task. Many of our team members had close working relationships with IPC staff mostly in Asia. This is how I began. At that time, we mostly focused on the standards related to quality such as IPC-610. For the second stage, we had many questions on the standard relating to our daily work, and sometimes also from our customers and vendors who had questions for certain rules or num - bers relating to the standards. Thus, we began to collect these questions, and have an annual meeting with IPC staff and sometimes standards editor to have a discussion on how to optimize these standards. In some cases, we'll do DOE tests to verify which one is more reasonable. Since then, many new standards and groups had been set up. For example, we have a team focused on CFX—the standard related to smart factory. Inside our factory, we have some demo lines to explore ways to set up connections between different machines for data sharing. Based on these connected demo line, we can collect raw data to perform root cause analyzes for quality issues and also to optimize our efficiencies. We have discussed this with David Berg- man, VP of IPC, as I think this is also an important direction for the next few years for IPC. So, we're working very closely with this