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88 I-CONNECT007 I REAL TIME WITH... IPC APEX EXPO 2021 SHOW & TELL MAGAZINE • Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) • Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) • e National Composites Centre (NCC) • Manufacturing Technology Center (MTC) MTC's role is to provide support, consult- ing, and implementation examples and leader- ship in the effort to introduce and implement the smart factory into UK industries; in this case, electronics assembly. Barry discussed 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 will 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. ree networks are involved in running their SMT line, and each machine has their own industrial PC or PLC on that respective network, shown as grey, blue, and yellow. MTC wanted to bring the two legacy machines, the solder paste printer, and the reflow oven into the modern CFX network of the solder paste 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. Using the SDK soware from IPC, a script was written 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. Typi- cal data from the solder paste printer is shown in Figure 4a. is data now provides traceabil- ity and trends, as well as alarms to the CFX Network. By adding a shareware visualization program called inkboard, it was possible to create a Real-Time Dashboard. MTC then presented a five-minute video of their plans for PHASE 2 Smart Factory: cybersecurity for OT, augmented reality for machine mainte- nance and co-bot robotics to carry out multi- tasking in the assembly process. S10-2: David Varela, MTC, "Working with Augmented Reality in Electronics Manu- facturing." David supplied a simple definition of aug- mented reality (AR) and how it can help a highly auto- mated electronics manufac- turing facility with tasks that are still manual. It is implemented using multiple sources into the manual process. e system architecture was very useful in seeing how a "pulled PCB design file" and AOI results can be integrated to use in AR for manual tasks. S10-3: Mike Wilson, MTC, "e Role for Automation and Robotics in Electronics Manufacturing." Mike was reporting on MTC projects in automation and robotics to support the UK supply chain. He explained the dif- ference that robotics use in the UK would be from Asia, especially for high-mix, low-volume production. As an example, he illustrated their typical use of co-bots in their automated SMT line as well as other developments planned. S13-1: Timothy Burke, Arch Systems, "Advanced, Non-Real-Time Uses of Machine Data for Factor y Operational Improvement." Tim presented how to collect machine data for use in the complex EMS factory. e data is either tactical or strategic. Tim empha- sized that a central, strategic system is needed and discussed the five main steps in imple- menting. S13-2: Dr. omas Marktscheffel, ASM Assembly Systems, "A Structured Approach for Providing well-formed Maintenance Data David Varela Mike Wilson Timothy Burke