Medical device PCB standard reaches new milestone
29 July 2020
Manufacturing / Production Technology, Hardware & Services
Recently the IPC 6012 ‘Medical Device Addendum’ reached a new milestone, passing the ballot after industry review.
“We are extremely content with this step forward, moving us closer to industry launch. The development of PCB standards is in general a time consuming process; the one for the medical addendum is no exception,” says Elmatica’s chair of the Medical Addendum Task Group, Jan Pedersen.
In 2016 Elmatica initiated a task group for medical applications. IPC accepted the challenge and founded IPC-6012 and 6013 Medical Addendum with Jan Pedersen as chair.
Different industries require different standard settings
“While developing the standard we have had to look into all aspects and needs for medical devices. We identified PCBs used in several applications such as implants and hearing aids that have line widths, thickness, hole sizes and other features below current tolerances and limits in today’s design, performance and acceptability standard,” says Pedersen.
Imperfections in materials that would be acceptable in other industries may cause application failures in medical devices. The same goes for what test frequency waivers are accepted within the industry – all factors that need to be analysed and discussed by the task group.
Jan Pedersen.
One down, one to go with IPC 6013EM
“Other obstacles we have faced are terminology, how to name different sections and PCBs, like micro PCBs, and different design producibility levels. For the last one we had to suggest a new level due to the complexity for medical device applications, a completely new level, Level D,” says Pedersen.
“Developing standards is time consuming, however we aim for industry launch of IPC 6012EM in the northern hemisphere’s late summer. Now we start working on IPC 6013EM, hoping for launch around November,” says Pedersen.
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