It was announced at the IPC-2581 Consortium Technical Committee Meeting on June 29th, that the Ballot process for the approval of “IPC-2581B Amendment 1” had met the requirements for approval with a more the 90% participant vote, all of which were in the affirmative. The ballot officially closed on July 6 whereby IPC-2581B Amendment 1 was declared “Approved”. Again, the effort put forth by the IPC-2581 Consortium Technical Committee, in conjunction with the IPC 2-16 Laminate Sub-committee, and the IPC 2-40 Electronic Documentation Sub-committee has succeeded in improving and adapting the IPC-2581 format to support the growing technology and information requirements in the Design to Manufacturing process. The IPC-2581 specification document and schema are now in the process of preparation for publication.