eX-Mission Solution Suite

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Over the past few years, a conglomerate of electronics assembly organizations, in cooperation with the academic community, have devoted significant resources to develop a set of specifications that would standardize communications for the assembly industry.

The result was the IPC endorsed CAMX standards, that define a framework in which equipment and applications exchange data in XML format. Working with CAMX compliant equipment enables manufacturers to select “best-in-class” equipment to build an assembly line, without having to spend time and money adapting heterogeneous equipment or having to confine a solution to a single vendor.

eX-Mission CAMX Standard Middleware Suite for the Electronics Assembly Industry

Rapidly reconfigurable manufacturing systems are a key strategy in the effort to satisfy consumer demand for highly customisable products while dealing with the problems of a high mix, low volume, fast changeover production environment. The eX-Mission Solution Suite provides the elements necessary to implement a fully IPC-CAMX 2501 compliant plant-to-business information exchange for the electronics manufacturing and assembly industry.

The GXML Driver

The Generic XML Driver function of the PTC-5800 embedded controller can deliver real benefits in the manufacturing and process domains where manufacturing execution is dependant on just-in-time data exchange. Data exchange with an array of disparate legacy equipment and native TCP/IP-enabled devices such as RFID Controllers, Bar Code Scanners, Sensors, PLCs, and Robots etc can be seamlessly shared directly with Enterprise Servers. The PTC Framework’s XML Message configuration editors enable manufacturers to take full advantage of XML as a universal data exchange, especially in applications where total traceability, monitoring and reporting are required i.e.

• Production Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Warehouse Management
• Control & Automation
• Quality Systems

Easily and rapidly create/manipulate XML messages as well as integrate them with the PTC-5800 data variables and control programs without a detailed knowledge of XML. The GXML editor and driver make it possible for someone with little knowledge of TCP/IP and XML to set up an XML message exchange with a simple Server running on a PC. In addition to general XML messaging the GXML Editor has been designed to generate fully compliant IPC-CAMX 2501 messages.

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