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30 SMT007 MAGAZINE I MAY 2021 into the committee work in terms of process training? Rowe: Many of our standards committee mem- bers are also members of our training commit- tees, and they bring their expertise and knowl- edge of the standard to the training committees for discussion. Johnson: Recently we were talking with Todd Brassard from Calumet and he was pointing out a specific section of, I believe, AS9100 that includes what he says is a great section on how to write a business plan which is larger than the focus of the standard itself. And yet they used that section on how to build a business plan, how to understand your company's larger pur- pose, and how you fit into the community as well as how you fit in into the industry. From this document, they used that to put together their business plan, which is now driving Calu- met to the degree that they are driven. I mean, they kind of turned the company in a com- pletely different direction with a completely different culture based on what they pulled out of that particular document. Rowe: Certainly, the business plan is looking at your overall process. We oen hear our com- mittee members talk about the need for the standard to work with the contractual require- ments, because together they drive how the products are built through the process. As part of that, you need a trained staff that recog- nizes the requirements and understands how to apply them to get the quality product at the end. Johnson: I'm not entirely sure that that's as well known in the industry as we would hope. Rowe: I think it depends. Training is a piece of this, but so is knowledge of the standards in use and the processes. When we are asked questions about how to apply criteria from a standard to a product, we oen recommend going back to the contract to see what it says. We can tell you what the standard says and help you understand it. We have training and handbooks available to help, but it really starts with, again, your business, your business plan, your contracts, your processes and your proce- dures, and how they all work together. Matties: Right. If we look at conformal coat- ing—I think it's the handbook task group—do you wind up publishing an actual handbook on that topic? I noticed we have several hand- books peppered throughout this list. Obitz: ese handbooks are created by various international industry members that are on this committee who provide input on what's good or not for conformal coat- ing, which you men- tioned. ey've also cre- ated some white papers that help the industry on questions such as how to use conformal coating, how to select a conformal coating so that they select the proper one based on whether they're going to repair or rework, or the protective properties of those coatings. Matties: at did catch my attention because you're not talking about necessarily a standard, but about methodology. Obitz: Yes. You're not going to get requirements in those specific handbooks. You're going to get guidance on selection, removal, how to apply it, the different ways of application and things like that. It doesn't build in requirements like our standards do, like the 5-33a group is the conformal coating task group. at deals with the IPC 8-30, which is the requirement speci- fication. e other one is the handbook 8-30, which is a guidance document that helps the users out there select coatings. Deb Obitz