Overview#
IPC is the standards group for the electronics manufacturing world. It is also the author of the most widely used material-declaration file formats.
What it gives the compliance world#
IPC publishes the IPC-175x family of data-exchange standards.
IPC-1752A
Material declaration XML for electronic parts
IPC-1754
The same, extended to whole articles and assemblies
Role
The standard "envelope" a declaration travels in
These formats carry material declarations and can declare against the IEC 62474 list. IPC supplies the format, and IEC supplies the substance list.