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66 I-CONNECT007 I REAL TIME WITH... IPC APEX EXPO 2021 SHOW & TELL MAGAZINE Barry discusses MTC's vision and journey enabling smart factory for electronics manu- facturing for a low-volume, high-mix environ- ment using legacy equipment by implement- ing IPC-CFX. Barry and Naim share why MTC chose this path and what they see as the future for IPC-CFX as part of their goals and vision for their smart factory initiatives. Figure 2 shows the SMT line at MTC and the current networking. ree networks are involved in running their SMT line, and each machine has its own industrial PC or PLC on that respective network, shown as "grey," "blue," and "yellow" (Figure 2b). MTC wanted Figure 2: MTC's Smart Factory a) SMT equipment; b) SMT line Smart Factory architecture. (Source: IPC & MTC) Barry Maybank Naim Kapadia to bring the two legacy machines, the sol- der paste printer and the reflow oven, into the modern CFX network of the solder paste