Profitable Printed Board Manufacturing Begins With Two Premiere Standards from IPC

How do you evaluate the acceptability of the structural integrity of boards that may be used in anything from a child’s toy to a key navigational system in a satellite? How do you determine if a foil crack on a plated-through hole PCB is, or is not, acceptable? And … how do you address these criteria—and hundreds of others—in a way that allows you to deliver reliable products profitably? With the highly effective combination of IPC-6012E, Qualification and Performance Specification for Rigid Printed Boards, and IPC-A-600K, Acceptability of Printed Boards.

A Critical Combination of IPC Standards for Printed Board Fabrication

IPC-6012E, Qualification and Performance Specification for Rigid Printed Boards, provides the process requirements that engineers in all electronics manufacturing sectors call out to produce acceptable printed boards.

IPC-A-600K, Acceptability of Printed Boards, is the electronics industry’s global standard for acceptability requirements for printed boards. The illustrated guidance of IPC-A-600K provides requirements used by inspectors around the world.

Used together by a majority of IPC Standards customers*, IPC-6012E and IPC-A-600 help the smallest fabricators to leading global manufacturers:

• Increase the efficiency and effectiveness of printed circuit board inspection and acceptance through:
  • Better material control
  • Best practices for consistent and reliable outcomes
  • Increased process control
• Improve consistency and quality
• Remove other barriers to profitable manufacturing

Because these two standards work in conjunction with one another, if you meet one standard, you meet both.

Deliver certainty for your customers—purchase the IPC-6012E / IPC-A-600 combo for your printed circuit board manufacturing process today!