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48 DESIGN007 MAGAZINE I OCTOBER 2021 IPC Digital Product Model (IPC-2581) Consortium A key advantage of IPC-2581 is that it is pro- moted and fully supported by the IPC Digital Product Model Consortium, whose sole pur- pose is to drive the adoption of this standard. It is an active group of PCB design and sup- ply chain companies whose goal is to enable, facilitate, and drive the adoption of IPC-2581. e general business and technical committees meet twice a month with a mission to estab- lish design best practices, provide guidance for adoption, and track tool support and usage. us, technical development is ongoing and will never become obsolete. e IPC-2851 consortium has over 110 cor- porate members, many of whom are already using it in production (it has been avail- able since 2013). ose who have adopted it Figure 7: Cadence Allegro PCB Designer collaboration with IPC-2581.