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44 SMT007 MAGAZINE I MAY 2021 Dieter joined the IPC staff in 1974. is wasn't the end of Dieter's efforts to create binders of content for industry, however. His name appeared on a few publications, includ- ing a handbook on gold usage, an electron- ics packaging manual, and an optoelectron- ics guide. His contributions to the industry as a whole earned him a place on the IPC Hall of Fame—IPC's highest honor—in 1985. To raise the visibility of the importance of designers to the industry, Dieter led the effort to create the IPC Designers Council and the credentialing program, known as CID and CID+, to allow designers to demonstrate mas- tery of the body of knowledge required to be capable designers. Dieter and Data Transfer Passing complete information from design to production was a career-long obsession of Dieter's. Beginning with PCB data in IPC-D- 350 in the 1970s, this effort evolved into the current IPC-2581. Dieter had hoped to see this standard globally adopted, and expressed dis- appointment that the incomplete Gerber for- mat was still being used at significant levels. Electronics assembly was not ignored; Dieter spent significant energy understanding XML and worked with industry to pull together the 2510, 2540, and 2570 series of data communi- cation standards. I think Dieter would be quite proud of the traction we are seeing with IPC- CFX. Dieter and Roadmaps In 1993, Dieter pulled together over 200 industry experts to create IPC's first technol- ogy roadmap. From this effort, Dieter built bridges to other organizations such as SIA, iNEMI, TPCA, and others, to track indus- try technology trends and capture this infor- mation in our roadmap. Updated every two years, IPC Roadmaps help to drive consortium efforts as well as IPC standards efforts. Dieter the Trainer As mentioned earlier, I reached out to Diet- er's colleagues and asked for their memo- ries of his contributions. One industry friend, who had the "privilege" on three occasions to co-teach an IPC workshop with Dieter, said he would always remember Dieter's "tireless teaching" for those who were looking for the ultimate mentor, and that he marveled at how Dieter could wear so many hats within IPC. Dieter would be happy to train a group of four or 400. It didn't matter what location, he Dieter Bergman in the Technical Director office on Howard Street in Evanston, Illinois circa 1975. Dieter (center) discussing test methods with Joe Mulcahy of Methode using IPC's first portable computer, the Compaq luggable.