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IPC COMMUNITY 94 SPRING 2025 IPC North Asia By Sydney Xiao, President, IPC North Asia The IPC North Asia team has already had a strong start to the year. Building on our achievements in 2024, Q1 2025 showed exciting progress across standards, certification, and education. Standards • IPC North Asia has released several new stan- dards, including IPC-4562B-CN, Specification for Metal Base Copper Clad Laminates for Printed Boards; IPC-7711/7721-VN, Rework, Modification, and Repair of Electronic Assemblies; IPC-J-STD- 001J-CN, Requirements for Soldered Electrical and Electronic Assemblies; IPC/WHMA-A-620ES-CN, Space and Military Applications Electronic Hard- ware Addendum to IPC/WHMA-A-620; IPC-A- 610J-ZH, Acceptability for Electronic Assemblies. • We launched our new project, Requirements for Design and Testing of Insulated Gate Bipolar Translator (IGBT), with a kickoff meeting. • IPC North Asia provided technical services to Midea to build the CFX production line and sup- port the digital upgrade. CFX and HERMES train- ing has been delivered. • The regional task groups for IPC-A-610-CN, Accept- ability for Electronic Assemblies, and IPC-J-STD- 001J-CN, Requirements for Soldered Electrical and Electronic Assemblies, were activated. • On Jan. 10, at the Haier COSMOPlat Quality Exchange Conference, IPC was honored with the prestigious title of "2024 Strategic Partner Award." The award recognizes IPC's valuable guid- ance and support in advancing standards for Haier COSMOPlat. Haier also expressed its commitment to further strengthening its partnership with IPC in the future. Certification and Education • The upgraded revision Chinese certification courses were released, including IPC-A-610, Acceptability of Electronics Assemblies Endorse- ment Program, and IPC J-STD-001, Requirements for Soldered Electrical and Electronic Assemblies Endorsement Program. • The new workforce training course IPC-CFX-2591, Connected Factory Exchange, was released. Upcoming Events • On March 26-28, 2025, the IPC Masters Competi- tion will be held in Shanghai during productron- ica, bringing together top technical talents from China's electronics manufacturing industry. The competition includes the IPC Standards Knowl- edge Competition, Hand Soldering and Rework Competition, Wire Harness Assembly Competi- tion, and BGA/BTC Rework Competition. • On April 24, IPC Member's Day South China will be organized in Shenzhen, China.