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August 2014 • The PCB Magazine 19 PRINTED ELECTRONICS 2014: WORLD STANDARDIzATION EFFORT continues ber companies. Organizations with whom IPC has partnered to a greater or lesser degree are shown in Figure 3. Our conclusion on completing that assess- ment, including likelihood of success and re- sources available can be summarized as: Maximum benefit from IPC resources will be achieved by: • Global consensus-based printed electron- ics standards • Design guidelines (eventually standards) to bridge the gap between traditional electronic design requirements and the traditional print technologies • Fact-based market data for decision makers (developed in partnership with others) To consolidate IPC's parallel efforts in sup- port of these targets in one framework, IPC for- mally established the IPC Printed Electronics Ini- tiative in early 2012. figure 3: Partial list of organizations that have partnered with IPc.