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IPC-CFX is an industry-developed open international standard forming the foundation/backbone of Factory of the Future applications. IPC-CFX is a plug-and-play solution that simplifies and standardizes machine-to-machine communication while also facilitating machine-to-business and business-to-machine applications.
IPC-CFX is an industry-developed open international standard forming the foundation/backbone of Factory of the Future applications. IPC-CFX is a plug-and-play solution that simplifies and standardizes machine-to-machine communication while also facilitating machine-to-business and business-to-machine applications.
IPC-2591, Connected Factory Exchange, is the open industry standard that supports IPC-CFX. IPC-2591 establishes the requirements for the omnidirectional exchange of information between manufacturing processes and associated host systems for assembly manufacturing. The standard applies to communication between all executable processes in the manufacture of printed board assemblies – automated, semiautomated and manual – and is applicable to related mechanical assembly and transactional processes.
The IPC 2-17 Connected Factory Exchange Initiative have provided everything your IT team needs to begin working with CFX for your implementations today. This page contains links to the free SDK and support documentation, as well as access to GitHub for proposing new message sets for CFX.
IPC-CFX Engineering Support Services provide an added resource to ensure successful IPC-CFX implementations.
Natively Supported Platforms via CFX SDKs
The broker for CFX messages is AMQP v1.0 (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol) (http://www.amqp.org). Versions of AMQP prior to v1.0 are not compatible with CFX.
IPC CFX FAQ