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26 SMT007 MAGAZINE I DECEMBER 2018 the oven on your phone as it went through. The data was being pushed live, and you could see what was going on in manufacturing. In addition to physically seeing what's going on, we expect that they'll be able to view it on a web browser on their phone as well. Ford: It's really important that people come to the demo. A normal demo is kind of like smoke and mirrors—the people have fantas- tic claims and wonderful messages. However, with the CFX demo like the one we did last year, you can actually see the data, as Dave said. It's human-readable data. You can go to your phone and see that it's there. Nobody is hiding anything or pretending that something is working; it's right in front of people. That's when they get the thought, "Well, there's my traceability. I didn't have to pay for anything. It's right there." That is really amazing for them. Matties: Visitors can come to the show, see the process, and experience the data. Whether they are an equipment supplier or a fabricator, they're going to want more information. What will be available to them to look at in the next step? Will you direct them to the website, or is there any collateral material that you'll have to hand out? What's the takeaway? Bergman: The thing I would like them to take away is a complete appreciation that Industry 4.0 is many steps closer to reality and is within reach of more companies—even small—and medium-sized companies. It has been very gratifying to see IPC CFX being born. A year ago before IPC APEX EXPO when we were talking about CFX at produc- tronica, we said maybe we should do a demon- stration line. The questions we got from people were, "What the heck is this CFX thing? Who is supporting it?" The equipment guys said, "I won't support it unless my customer asks," and the customer said, "My equipment guys won't support it, so I'm not really interested." That has changed significantly over the last year and many more companies are on board. We have a CFX website where people can see who supports it now or where they can commit to join the movement. It's challenging to try and do manufactur- ing demonstrations when you're writing the standard that you're using for delivering the messages, which is kind of scary in itself, but it's important because so many more people have heard about it. People are now asking more questions to consider than ever before. That tells us they're excited about it, and now they're visualizing what this can now do stuff for them, so how soon can we get to the really cool stuff? When Michael mentioned the different formats with Linux where we have a group, we were ready to form some subgroups to target these areas or allow companies to work together and say, "Okay, how about you guys focus on this. Build an SDK so that more companies using Linux can start to implement CFX." LabVIEW came up at the meeting on Indus- try 4.0 just this week in Fremont, California. There were a number of people interested in LabVIEW, and Python also came up. There are these formats where companies have software programming capability or things that they've been working on. This is what they're comfort- able working with, but they really want to communicate with CFX, so how can IPC help do that? I guess the way IPC can help, like we do with anything else, is to try and get people