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REAL TIME WITH... IPC APEX EXPO 2021 SHOW & TELL MAGAZINE I I-CONNECT007 67 inspection, pick-and-place machine, and the automatic optical inspection unit. ey started by adding an industrial PC (a Beckman PC w/Windows 10) to each of the legacy machines' embedded controller. en these PCs were connected to the Rabbit MQ server that also communicated with the CFX compatible machine controller (Figure 3a). Figure 3b shows the soware setup. Using the SDK soware from IPC, a script was writ- ten in C for each PC, called the EXTRACTOR. Its job was to take standard log files from each machine and move it to the CFX program ADAPTOR in the server. Typical data from the solder paste printer is shown in Figure 4a. is data now provides traceability and trends, as well as alarms to the CFX Network. By add- ing a shareware visualization program called inkboard, it was possible to create Real- Time Dashboard (Figure 4b). MTC then presented a five-minute video of their plans for PHASE 2 Smart Factory: cyber security for OT, augmented reality for machine maintenance and co-bot robotics to carry out multi-tasking in the assembly process. Figure 3: a) Hardware setup for implementing IPC CFX; b) software setup from the SDK for IPC CFX. (Source: IPC & MTC)