Issue link: https://iconnect007.uberflip.com/i/1197000
JANUARY 2020 I SMT007 MAGAZINE 69 ily additions to support messages for work- ing with Hermes and many new messages for materials management, test and inspec- tion, and assembly process. To help the indus- try understand the updates for version 1.1 and future versions, the subcommittee has cre- ated an appendix of change updates. This way, when somebody gets version 1.1 of the stan- dard, they will be able to see what changed from one version to the next. Feinberg: When are you expecting the next standard change? Jorgensen: I don't want to hold the committee to six months, but the goal is twice a year. Johnson: Let's talk about what the update request process looks like. Jorgensen: The update request process can go one of a couple of ways. One way is the GitHub direction as I was talking about, where some- body posts a message request to the GitHub community. Any message requests or com- ments that come through GitHub are reviewed by a triage team from within the subcommit- tee, or what we call an A-Team. The second way is when comments come directly to the subcommittee. With either approach to sub- mitting comments, the committee will review those comments and figure out if and how the standard needs to be changed. Johnson: Walk us through the line that you'll have at IPC APEX EXPO 2020. What can we expect to see in the line, and what's going to be engaging about it? Jorgensen: Last year, we had two lines in the sales pavilion, which was disconnected from the show floor. We had feedback from the commit- tee and the line participants that we need to be on the main floor. So, we found a spot on the main floor, and we're going to have one line with 10 pieces of equipment. Like last year, we are going to do live soldering, but to dem- onstrate the power of Hermes for line control, we will run two-component placement varia- tions on the same process sequence. The com- mittee is also planning to show more about the Industry 4.0 connection for CFX. Johnson: That suggests that there's a bit of a scope change to the application of the data. Jorgensen: I'd say it's more of a scope expan- sion. The focus of the lines that we had at IPC APEX EXPO earlier this year was to demon- strate CFX. The power of CFX is that you have a multi-vendor or a mixed-vendor line and can load CFX across all of them; everything runs through fine. This year, the committee wants to demonstrate not only the equipment mes- saging and line control but also what any man- ufacturer can do with CFX in just a few days to take their company to Industry 4.0. Johnson: There's no argument that the equip- ment manufacturers are responding to CFX and Hermes and implementing them. How are customers responding to this? Jorgensen: We are aware of some companies that are implementing CFX or have plans to soon, but we can't share the company names. We expect some of them to make announce- ments soon. We have heard from several equip- ment vendors that customers are asking for