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2024 IPC K-FEST: Shaping the Future of the Electronics Industry
December 6, 2024 | IPCEstimated reading time: 2 minutes
IPC K-FEST 2024, the 2nd annual IPC Korea Festival of Electronics Standards and Technology, was held in Seoul on October 29. The focus of this year’s event centered on the integration of Korea's technological leadership with international standards development.
The conference attracted160 industry professionals from approximately 80 companies. This one-day event featured technical seminars, an IPC-A-610 regional task group meeting, and the IPC Korea Annual Awards as key highlights. IPC Asia President Sydney Xiao and IPC Board member, Jae-sang Min, LG Electronics, gave welcome speeches to open the event.
Technical seminars focused on addressing challenges in the electronics manufacturing industry, demonstrating how IPC standards enhance manufacturing performance and quality. Participants engaged in active discussions across seven topics: Digitalization of Electronics Manufacturing – Towards Smart Factory enabling Industry 4.0; Mastering Challenges in Electronics for Electric Vehicles; Evaluation and Prediction of MLCC Ionic Migration in Electronics; Material Selection and Technical Solution of Conformal Coating; Improving Performance and Reliability at PCB Design Phase, Requirements and Acceptance Specifications for Organic Packaging Substrates, and the Relationship of Sn Plating and IMC at PCBA.
During the awards luncheon, IPC Korea staff awarded various individual volunteers. Rounding out the day, the IPC-A-610 regional task group meeting was held, which aimed to involve more Korean engineers into IPC’s global standardizations activities.
Jae-sang Min, IPC Board member, highly praised the achievements made by the IPC Korea team since 2021. “Although currently there are not many Korean people participating in IPC standardization compared with Korea's leading position in the electronics industry and the importance of IPC in the electronics industry, I believe that in the near future, the IPC Korea team, through platforms such as IPC K-FEST, will surely lead more and more Korean electronics manufacturing companies and experts to the world standardization stage,” he stated.
The Korean Government project, “De-facto Standard Forum” sponsored this event and Jong-won Kwon, general project director of the De-facto Standard Forum said, “IPC K-FEST is exactly the kind of event that we are expecting to see. We, the Korean De-facto Standard Forum, would like to support IPC as much as we can.” MacDermid Alpha Electronics Solutions and K&P Co., Ltd. sponsored supplies for this event.
“My special thanks go to the IPC Korea team and IPC Korea Advisory Committee for their dedication in making this event possible. We are confident that it will continue to attract greater interest from Korea’s industry, potentially evolving into a global event, and thus promoting more industry experts to participate in the development of IPC standards,” said Sydney Xiao, IPC Asia president.
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