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Happy’s Essential Skills: Computer-Aided Manufacturing, Part 2 - Automation Examples

• WIP tracking
• CNC for drilling
• Low-volume robot lamination
• Wastewater treatment process control
• AOI and Electrical Test
• Production scheduling
• Computerized plating and chemical control
• Laboratory automation of chemical analysis
• Inkjet individual board serialization for traceability

Figure 14 shows the overall CIM System Information Flow. This was the first implementation of HP’s automation strategy, “The Manufacturers Productivity Network.”

Figure 14: CIM information flow for the Sunnyvale PCB fabrication facility.

Figure 15 shows four of the automated systems controlled by the CIM network: a) Electroless copper and multilayer desmear line; b) Dual copper-nickel-gold/tin plating lines; c) Automatics chemical analysis, control and dosing; d) Robotic material handling in multilayer lamination.

Figure 15: CIM information network: a) Electroless copper and multilayer desmear line; b) Dual copper-nickel-gold/tin plating lines; c) Automatic chemical analysis, control and dosing; d) Robotic material handling in multilayer lamination.

References

1. Industrie 4.0 Smart Manufacturing for the Future
2. Introduction to Serial Communications, TalTech Instrumental Software Solutions.
3. IEEE Standard Codes
4. IEEE-488
5. Message Automation & Protocol Simulation (MAPS™), GL Communications, Inc.
6. “Semiconductor Productivity at HP,” HP Journal, July 1985.
7. SEMI Standard E30, General Equipment Model.
8. IPC Status of Standardization; IPC Committee Home Pages.
9. Smart IoT Technology for Machine Condition Monitoring, Advantech B&B SMARTWORX
10. Hermann, M., Pentek, T., Design Principles for Industrie 4.0 Scenarios, Working Paper No. 01/2015, technische universitat-Dortmund, 2015.
11. Industry_4.0, Wikipedia.
12. “Computerization comes to Plating,” Metal Finishing Magazine, May, 1978.
13. MPN: Alive in Sunnyvale PCB; CIM brochure. 

Happy Holden has worked in printed circuit technology since 1970 with Hewlett-Packard, NanYa/Westwood, Merix, Foxconn and Gentex. He is the co-editor, with Clyde Coombs, of the recently published Printed Circuit Handbook, 7th Ed. To contact Holden, click here.

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