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REAL TIME WITH... IPC APEX EXPO 2021 SHOW & TELL MAGAZINE I I-CONNECT007 73 Goldman: Are all your committees related to automotive or medical? Pedersen: Yes, mostly automotive and medi- cal related, but others as well. ere have been a lot of committees, and one of them—I call it my baby—is to con- nect and have a better overview of the IPC- 6010 series, or what is called D-33a, which is about the performance of the PCBs: IPC-6012, IPC-6013, IPC-6018, and all the addendums. My idea is we are cre- ating addendums, but how does that correlate with the mother docu- ment? We are implementing requirements, tolerances, and so on into the addendums that probably should have been in the main docu- ment for them, and right now we are discuss- ing ultra HDI PCBs. at's an interest-group across quite a few of the committees, involving design, and performance, and it's being led by myself and Herb Snowgren. We are discuss- ing PCBs with the tracks and gaps down to 10 microns. Goldman: at's pretty small. Pedersen: It is, yes. e technology's out there. Goldman: Okay, so back to your regular job; how do you fit it all in? Pedersen: Evening time (laughs). It's a full day job, or more than full day. Guro is listening here. She is always asking me to go into Linke- dIn and write some articles and so on. at's nighttime as well. So, there's a lot of evening time. Guro Krossen [Elmatica employee]: He is doing a very good job. He's always on. I think it's like a 24/7 job for him; even if I'm sitting up late until 1:30 and thinking nobody else is there. He's always very dedicated. Goldman: So, when you say it's your baby, it's really your baby—you feel like a 24/7 parent. Pedersen: It is. I'm quite passionate about get- ting the standards right and also getting them up to date. Like if you saw some of the guys in IPC were writing just two years ago that in the U.S. you had very few designs below 3-mil track and gap. Today, we are working with 1 mil. I get calls from California, from South Africa, people talking about, "Hey, we really need that 1-mil or a 25-micron track and gap boards." Goldman: What would you say to some young engineers and people getting into IPC? What is your advice to them? Pedersen: My advice would be to engage with other people across the world, and make sure Jan Pedersen proudly showing off the Dieter Bergman Award medal.