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56 SMT007 MAGAZINE I APRIL 2019 Johnson: Octane Open Concept delivers on what sort of vision and mission for the industry? Reiselt: We're bridging the gap for the MES segment of the industry. So, the original concept behind Octane was a product called Heatwave. What we did was simplify the process of fighting through hours and hours of data that is typically end-of-shift or next-day reporting and display it real time on the production floor. All the MES companies have phenomenal tools to dig deep into this data, but none of them can tell you what's happening right now on your production floor. And if you can't solve what's happening at a given second on your production floor, you can't stop things from going to repair. Heatwave was designed to take all of that data and make it real time instead of putting it in pie charts, graphs, spreadsheets, etc. It's a pictorial image of your circuit board as it goes down the line. So, if you have a defect on U1 at the screen printer, SPI, AOI, ICT, functional test, or where ever it may be in your process, as soon as it's recorded to the MES, it's populated and colorized on the monitors out on the floor. Johnson: Did you demonstrate this software at IPC APEX EXPO 2019? Reiselt: Yes. We were with CTI in their booth, and they had an integrated line with Omron, so we piggy-backed up on top of the AOI system, and as defects were reported by the AOI, we displayed them for everyone to see. Johnson: Is your software limited to just those suppliers, or are you more open than that? Reiselt: We're completely open, as our name suggests. If you're reporting a failure, it doesn't matter how you're reporting it; we will get it into a format that will allow it to be shown in a pictorial format. We can integrate with any of the AOIs, MESs, etc.; it doesn't matter. Johnson: What sort of a protocol or communi- cation are you using underneath the software to achieve that integration? Reiselt: We can use a direct call to the data- base—an API—import a CSV, or anything that the different manufacturers use as an output. Johnson: Is this something that needs to be running on CFX or Hermes, for example? Reiselt: No. Octane Open Solutions' Heatwave application flags assembly trouble spots based on real-time tester results data.