I, as an IPC CIT, and Test Engineer at Foxconn would like to see a standard for the transferring of specification information created the various CAD outputs. IPC has improved overall industry quality with standards such as J-STD-001, IPC-A-610 and IPC-7711/21 and I believe IPC-2581 standard can achieve a similar outcome to the aforementioned standards.

I, Jeff Heidel, work as a PCB Designer and Team Lead at VIAVI Solutions. I recently attended the 2581 users meeting at IPC APEX in San Diego and I like the direction that the standard is going and I would like to find out how I can be more involved. Today documenting FAB requirements is…

I, Brien Blankenship, have worked as a PCB designer @ Intel Corp for the last 15 years. I would like to see the adoption of IPC-2581 as a standard for data transmission from CAD to Fab vendor as I believe it to be a benefit to the industry as a whole. I support IPC-2581 and…

I am a lead developer for the KiCad open source EDA software suite. I would like to add support for the IPC-2581 standard to our software.

I am a Senior Systems Analyst at Mitutoyo America Corporation, a global manufacturer of metrology systems. I believe that the IPC-2581 standard will benefit the whole PCB design and supply chain industry, thus, I support IPC-2581 standard and encourage others to do the same. This is my personal opinion, not on the behalf of my…

I work as a CAD Engineer for Apple HW. I am looking into the feasibility of transitioning manufacturing outputs from ODB++ to IPC2581 07/02/2020    

I, Jens Pejtersen work as a Hardware Design Engineer at WS Audiology. I believe that IPC-2581 standard will benefit the whole PCB design and supply chain industry, thus, I support IPC-2581 standard and encourage others to do the same. This is my personal opinion, not on the behalf of my company. 05/08/2020