IPC - Connected Factory Initiative

IPC-CFX is an electronics manufacturing industry developed standard forming the foundation/backbone of Industry 4.0 Applications.  IPC-CFX simplifies and standardizes machine to machine communication while also facilitating machine to business/business to machine solutions.

IPC-CFX can simply be described as a standard providing a purpose, working components, benefits, with several applications and sustainability.

Purpose of IPC-CFX:

• World-wide Industrial IoT communication standard for assembly manufacturing
• The enabler of Industry 4.0, Smart Factory and Digital Factory solutions

Working Components of IPC-CFX:

• Secure, omni-directional, AMQP v1.0 transportation protocol
• JSON data encoding
• Defined data content and structure of messages, across all manufacturing topics

Benefits of IPC-CFX:

• Everyone has just one interface for complete visibility, reducing costs and complexity
• Machine vendors can further optimize machine operation based on wider knowledge
• IT solutions work in a “plug and play” environment

Applications:

• Machine to machine communication
• Machine data to factory exchange
• Factory data to machine exchange
• Transactional events, such as logistics, work-orders etc.

Sustainability:

• Enhanced business opportunity and cost saving for all parties
• Supports all Industry 4.0, Smart factory and digital factory applications
• Additional CFX specification can be added as required