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Status : Historical
Standard Type : Main
Document No : IPC-2591 : 2019
Document Year : 2019
Pages : 44
1 SCOPE
This standard establishes the requirements for the omni-directional exchange of information between manufacturing processes and associated host systems for assembly manufacturing. This standard applies to communication between all executable processes in the manufacture of printed board assemblies, automated, semi-automated and manual, and is applicable to related mechanical assembly and transactional processes.
1.1 Purpose
With the growth and acceptance of digital modelling and practices in manufacturing, the lack of a holistic IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) standard for the transfer of information between machines, systems and processes has become a severe limitation to the growth of digitization and computerization in the electronics manufacturing industry, inhibiting technology innovations such as ‘‘Industry 4.0’’ and ‘‘Smart Factories’’ being available to all companies in the industry, regardless of size, sector and location.