What Does It Mean to Build Electronics Sustainably?
IPC has heard from electronics manufacturers about their challenges staying ahead of and in tune with the dynamic landscape of sustainability requirements. In response, IPC codified its Sustainability for Electronics Initiative to:
- Serve as a go-to resource and electronics industry architect, building a community of industry experts;
- Create relevant standards, education, workforce training, advocacy, industry intelligence and events that enable the industry’s progress toward its sustainability goals.
Sustainability for Electronics Leadership Team
IPC convened a Sustainability for Electronics Leadership Team responsible for identifying the most pressing sustainability topics for the industry and building a strategic plan to address these topics, the Leadership Council will be active in an industry-wide materiality assessment to enable the creation of the plan. Action teams are currently working on supply chain communications, sustainability terminology and definitions, and greenhouse gas data and reporting obligations.
Materiality Assessment
IPC is conducting an industry-wide materiality assessment to identify the most relevant electronics manufacturing industry-specific material risk factors.
Supply-Chain Communication
Increasing communication on emerging policies and regulatory requirements, existing IPC standards development activities and insights into risk factors and how to address and report on them.
Electronic Design and Manufacturing Sustainability Whitepaper
This June, IPC’s Chief Technologist Council published a white paper, Electronic Design and Manufacturing Sustainability which provides an overview of eight sustainability topics that affect the electronics industry: product life-cycle assessment; recycling and recyclability; bio-based polymers; modularity, repairability, and reuse; eco-design; data needs and management; energy use; and carbon footprints.
Altium OnTrack Podcast with Dr. Kelly Scanlon
Hear from IPC’s Lead Sustainability Strategist Kelly Scanlon as she talks with Altium OnTrack podcast host Zachariah Peterson on how IPC is working to help electronics manufacturers navigate sustainability issues.
A Sustainable Community
Sustainability for electronics takes center stage in each issue of IPC Community, a quarterly magazine created to meet industry’s needs for information on manufacturing and management best practices and solutions, emerging technologies, IPC standards, government relations and environment, health and safety issues, industry intelligence, sustainability, and more.
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