Seamlessly integrate with Industry 4.0 protocols and existing integration APIs

Pick-and-Place machine connectors

Pick-and-Place (PnP) machines are the beating heart of an SMT assembly line. Any SMT solution for calculating KPIs or doing predictive analytics will need out-of-the-box integrations with leading PnP machines such as those from ASM, Fuji, and Panasonic, including support for various versions of each vendor’s integration APIs that remain in use today.

Automatic Optical Inspection machine connectors

Supported: Koh Young (via KBR integration with KSmart BRM), Vitrox (via IPC-CFX or VOne connection)

Automatic Optical Inspection (AOI) machines perform a first critical quality assurance check as boards come off the line. Manufacturers who want to track First Pass Yield (FPY) and other quality-related metrics such as Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) require out-of-the-box integrations with AOI machines from leading vendors such as Koh Young and Vitrox so that quality KPIs can be automatically calculated and aggregated at every level of the business.

Solder Paste Inspect machine connectors

Solder Paste Inspect (SPI) machines ensure that the printer correctly applied solder paste to the printed circuit board before components are placed. They perform many complex measurements but ultimately produce a single pass/fail determination for the entire circuit board. While obvious problems will be flagged by the machine in the form of board failures, the detailed measurement data itself can also serve as an input into predictive quality analytics that detect problems before they result in failed boards on the line. Arch has partnered with leading vendors including Koh Young and Vitrox to develop machine connectors to gather SPI data, normalize it, and store it in the Arch data lake to power advanced analytics.

Automatic X-Ray Inspection machine connectors

Automatic X-Ray Inspection (AXI) machines verify the quality of solder connections. They’re invaluable for under-chip connections that can’t be checked optically. Manufacturers need out-of-the-box integrations with AXI machines so that solder joint quality test results can be integrated into KPIs and process analytics.

In-Circuit Test machine connectors

Expensive In-Circuit Test (ICT) machines provide a deeper level of quality assurance testing by verifying that circuits function as intended when plugged into testing boards. Like AOIs, manufacturers want to integrate ICTs from industry leaders like Keysight into their SMT KPIs so they can monitor yield and first pass yield.

Configurable database connectors

Frequently, manufacturers have useful data already collected into systems such as Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), machine-vendor provided monitoring software, or ad hoc performance – tracking systems maintained at the line, area, or site level. Many of these tools do not have modern APIs for programmatic data extraction and only support direct database access. Manufacturing IoT solutions must therefore be able to efficiently connect to arbitrary databases and extract desired data from them.

The ArchFX Broker includes database connectors that support commonly-used databases out of the box and can be easily configured to support proprietary or vendor-specific databases as well.

Tapping Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs)

Industrial machines often have built-in Programmable Logic Controllers that monitor and control machine operations. Many of your machines and processes are driven by PLCs that are not already connected or mapped into a central SCADA system. Arch Systems PLC Taps can easily connect to your existing PLCs, gather useful data from them, and, for the first time, make that data available for other applications.

Legacy Machines

Manufacturing lines often have legacy machines such as industrial stamps or presses that generate no data at all. Arch Systems offers the modular IOTile POD framework for instrumenting legacy machines. Off-the-shelf IOTile PODs monitor common metrics of interest such as temperature, humidity, shocks, current, and voltage. The modular architecture makes it easy for Arch to rapidly develop a new IOTile POD or Accessory for as-yet unsupported values, integrating the needed sensor module and quickly manufacturing the new IOTile device. This can all be done at low cost in low volumes for a pilot and in the high volumes needed for production deployment.

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