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52 PCB007 MAGAZINE I JANUARY 2023 References 1. Automation and Advanced Procedures in PCB Fabrication, by Happy Holden, June 2018. 2. "Building An AI Ready Culture," keynote address by Irene Petrick, SMTA eSmart Factory Conference, Detroit, 2019. 3. "IPC CFX: Plug and Play Equipment Messag- ing Supporting the Factory of the Future," IPC.org, 2022. 4. "The Smart Factory Program," at IPC APEX EXPO in San Diego, CA, 2022. 5. "SEMI SECS/GEM Presentation," translated from Chinese at the TPCA Conference in Taipei, Tai- wan, November 2021. 6. SEMI website, www1.semi.org/standards. Happy Holden has worked in printed circuit technology since 1970 with Hewlett-Packard, NanYa Westwood, Merix, Foxconn, and Gentex. He is currently a contributing technical editor with I-Connect007, and the author of Automation and Advanced Procedures in PCB Fabrication, and 24 Essential Skills for Engineers. To read past Figure 7: The PCB process protocol standard is being undertaken by TPCA for SEMI 5 . Figure 8: The "automation activities" are broken down into classes, levels, degree, and extents 1 . material handling of products from operation to operation (Figure 8) is benchmarked, as well as the networking of information. PCB007