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IPC COMMUNITY 52 SUMMER 2023 IPC COMMUNITY 52 SUMMER 2023 That A-Team's efforts established IPC as a true leader for standards development in the e-textiles industry. As the results of their work became more well known, it attracted more volunteers to form new E-Textiles Committee task groups. These volunteers found IPC to be a fast path: A proposed standard topic could lead to a task group approval, an A-Team for- mation, and then to starting their projects. The IPC E-Textiles Committee now represents IPC's global footprint with eight A-Teams, all actively engaged in different standards proj- ects. A-Team members hail from Belgium, Can- ada, France, Germany, Malaysia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Each team has embraced IPC's challenge to come up with creative names for their teams. Let's meet the IPC E-Textiles Com- mittee A-Teams and see what they're up to. Hangin' By a Thread This A-Team was formed in 2021 to develop the draft for IPC/JPCA-8911, Requirements for Conductive Yarns for E-Textiles Applications, a standard developed jointly with the Japan Electronics Packaging and Circuits Associ- ation (JPCA). This new standard will identify categories, and establish the classification system, qualification/quality conformance requirements, and test methods for conduc- tive yarns used in e-textiles. The goal for this standard will be to set a baseline for yarn suppliers to show the elec- trical, thermal, mechanical, and chemical exposure characteristics of their products so e-textiles integrators and end-product devel- opers will have apples-to-apples comparisons of available yarns for selecting the one most suitable to their needs. As the A-Team developed the content for the standard, the members realized there is a need for new IPC Test Methods for conduc- tive yarns, so their initial project to develop one standard has been increased to include at least six new IPC Test Methods. The work of this A-Team is incredibly import- ant because not only will they establish the first standard for conductive yarn, but other IPC standards being developed by A-Teams will have a best reference for specifying con- ductive yarns in their own standards. This A-Team comprises both IPC and JPCA volunteers who have been utilizing IPC Works to develop this new standard. IPC Works is the intranet site all IPC working groups use for their standards development projects. The team is led by Joe Geiger of Bally Ribbon An example of conductive yarn. (Source: IPC-WP-024, courtesy of ENSAIT) Showing the gnome spirit during Gnomeapalooza 2022. (Left to right) Joe Geiger, Big E. Gnome.