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70 PCB007 MAGAZINE I MAY 2018 I finished off the talk with an example of PCB fabrication automation at Hewlett-Packard, an example of Industry 3.0 CIM. The supervisory systems are shown in Figure 4. Second Presentation The second talk was by Wen-Tao Bao of Uni- versal Robots and emphasized the increasing use of robots in the electronics industry in Chi- na. Growth of robots and their applications have increased steadily since 2001. Electronic assembly is one of the fastest growing markets for robots in China, but automotive is quickly becoming the largest application. UR has three articulating arm robots (Table 1), popular for PCB fabrication and assembly. Bao then showed examples of the usage of these three models of robots that included light assembly, electronic packaging, custom solder- ing and welding, automotive assembly, parts assembly/handling and the assembly of these UR robots. He concluded with an example of the ease of programming this type of intelli- gent robot. Third Presentation The third talk was by Jochem Zeller of AWP Group, a worldwide company specializing in horizontal wet processing, materials handling and automation, and copper etchant recycling. Zeller showed an overview of the large number of different PCB equipment handling and pro- cessing equipment that they design and supply (Figure 5). As an example, Zeller highlighted a recent project for Wurth Elektronik, in Germany, where they automated the entire solder mask process using custom barcode readers to con - trol legend, solder masking and curing. The bulk of his slides were about the new expan- AOI & PRODUCT TEST Lab Instruments CAD Corporate / Finance Plant / Factory Control Production Process Model Cell Controller Supervisory Control Cell Controller Multi-L PRESS CIM/CAM SYSTEM HIERARCHY of SUNNYVALE PCB Cell Controller CHEMICAL PROCESS CONTROL MECH / FABRICATION MFG. ENGR. / Tooling Water & Waste Control Process Monitoring & Control Plating & Hoist Control Robotics / AMH Photo Plotter NC DRILLS NC ROUTERS Digitizer Step & Repeat STACKING 1 2 4 3 1 4 3 2 1 2 1 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 Operation control Figure 4: CIM/CAM system hierarchy of supervisory computers for HP's automated PCB fabrication facility. Table 1: Three models of Universal Robots used in electronics manufacture.