NACOM, Georgia Tech and the IPC hold CAMX workshop

NACOM, Georgia Tech and the IPC held a successful CAMX workshop at NACOM's Griffin, Georgia facility on October 20-21, 2004 to demonstrate the results of a CAMX consortium effort, facilitate the exchange of CAMX strategies across the electronics manufacturing industry and encourage CAMX adoption. 

CAMX (Computer Aided Manufacturing using XML) is a new protocol that has been developed by the electronics industry to reduce the cost and complexity of exchanging manufacturing data among equipment and applications.

Andrew Dugenske of Georgia Tech said, "The workshop was a great success.  The demonstrations, presentations and exchange of ideas were met with a great deal of enthusiasm.”

Louis Watson, a NACOM manufacturing engineer, quickly followed by saying, "we were very pleased to host and participate in this meeting, we believe CAMX is now poised to explode onto the manufacturing scene since it is being implemented by PC driven SMT machines and PLC actuated final assembly equipment for a complete assembly solution.”

The purpose of the consortium is to develop common CAMX software at greatly reduced costs for use in the participants' products. The workshop provided the consortium members with an opportunity to demonstrate their new products on a "live” factory floor to the industry at large.  By using the new CAMX standards, real-time displays of throughput, cycle time, machine states and alarms were generated within minutes of CAMX products being installed at NACOM.