Proposed Standard for Ballot - March 2005

IPC-2577

Sectional Requirements for the Supply Chain (B2B) Communication of Quality Product Data

This sectional standard provides an XML encoding schema to allow electronics manufacturing supply chain partners to exchange as-built quality assessment and manufacturing process yield information. The information represented by this standard may be used to improve manufacturing processes and design criteria to incorporate design for excellence principles. The information represented in this standard includes: board fabrication characteristics related to form, fit and function; serialization; batch/lot information; manufacturing site; manufacturing date; part number; component and sub-assembly data.

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