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The Sunnyvale, California PCB facility was built in 1981 and had even more factory automation than Palo Alto, California facility did. The many systems it had were:- 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
- Industrie 4.0 Smart Manufacturing for the Future
- Introduction to Serial Communications, TalTech Instrumental Software Solutions.
- IEEE Standard Codes
- IEEE-488
- Message Automation & Protocol Simulation (MAPS™), GL Communications, Inc.
- “Semiconductor Productivity at HP,” HP Journal, July 1985.
- SEMI Standard E30, General Equipment Model.
- IPC Status of Standardization; IPC Committee Home Pages.
- Smart IoT Technology for Machine Condition Monitoring, Advantech B&B SMARTWORX
- Hermann, M., Pentek, T., Design Principles for Industrie 4.0 Scenarios, Working Paper No. 01/2015, technische universitat-Dortmund, 2015.
- Industry_4.0, Wikipedia.
- “Computerization comes to Plating,” Metal Finishing Magazine, May, 1978.
- 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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