Jan 24, 2001 IPC- Association Connecting Electronics Industries has announced the circulation of the final interim ballot for IPC-2540, CAMX Shop Floor Equipment Communications standard series. After a final ballot has been tabulated and approved, the standard is made available in 30 days.
This series, developed by IPC and the National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (NEMI), defines an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) encoding scheme, which enables a detailed definition of electronics inspection and test equipment messages. This will then facilitate the plug-and-play characteristics in the factory/shopfloor integration process.
"The adoption of these new standards by the electronics industry will enable the easy flow of information from the shop floor throughout the supply chain," said Allan Fraser, solution architect, GenRad, Inc., and chairman of IPC's Shop Floor Equipment Communications Committee. "Developing the standards to this point represents a real team effort by the committee participants."
This series includes IPC-2541, Generic Requirements for Electronic Manufacturing Shop Floor Equipment Communication, IPC-2546, Requirements for Shop Floor Electronic Assembly Equipment Communication and IPC-2547, Requirements for Shop Floor Inspection and Test Equipment Communication. Together these sectional documents define the set of messages and key attributes of specific equipment classes used in the electronics manufacturing area.
IPC established the Computer Aided Manufacturing using XML (CAMX) Shop Floor Equipment Communications subcommittee in 1999 to develop standards based on the results of NEMI's Plug and Play Factory project, which addressed critical problems of the Factory Information Systems (FIS) deployment in the electronics manufacturing factory floor.
For more information on IPC-2540 series, contact Dieter Bergman, IPC director of technology transfer at 847-790-5339, or e-mail at dieterbergman@ipc.org.
IPC is a US-based trade association dedicated to the competitive excellence and financial success of its more than 2,700 member companies which represent all facets of the electronic interconnection industry, including design, printed wiring board manufacturing and electronics assembly. As a member-driven organization and leading source for industry standards, training, market research and public policy advocacy, IPC supports programs to meet the needs of a $44 billion US industry employing more than 400,000 people.
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