Chelmsford, Essex, UK – 01 May 2019 – Pillarhouse International today announced: As global markets change, organisations have the opportunity to differentiate themselves with “IIoT Technology” that delivers genuine business benefit, ensuring increased productivity and profitability. Pillarhouse International customers look to us not only for support, but technology that can give them an advantage in a competitive marketplace. The IPC-2591 CFX standard is the first and only standard that directly addresses customer’s increasing need for digitalisation as part of a Smart Industry 4.0 factory, without dependencies on middleware or other services that have, with previous technologies, introduced additional costs, functional limitations, delays, and variation in the way that data was interpreted. CFX is the fundamental step towards genuine Industry 4.0.

Pillarhouse International is proud to have been a key partner in the creation and realisation of this specification. As a member of the design committee Pillarhouse International has been able to not only help define the transport protocols, but also the message structures and content. With this insight into the specification Pillarhouse International has already created a CFX implementation module for their entire, current, range of Selective Soldering Systems. The CFX module can not only be added to future Selective Soldering Systems, but can also be retro-fitted to any systems already in production.

With CFX uniquely defining the protocol, encoding mechanism, as well as the standard message definition and content, CFX is the true “Plug-and-Play” standard for the industry. As a non-vendor specific standard, CFX allows for reduction in costs of Smart factory support, as well as giving end-users the opportunity to utilise additional actionable data. Imagine a system that allows the Corporate Production Director to monitor line utilisation anywhere in the world; whilst the same system will send an SMS to a local Maintenance Technician when a consumable has run-out. CFX can give you this functionality.

CFX provides the opportunity to gain data from other machines, lines, and across the factory as a whole, easily integrating with the next-generation digital manufacturing platforms that already support CFX technology. For further information about adding a CFX implementation to your Pillarhouse systems please contact sales@pillarhouse.co.uk or for details of the CFX standard please visit www.ipc-cfx.org.

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Contact information (press members only):

Simon Smith
Marketing Manager
Pillarhouse International Ltd
+44 1245 491333
s.smith@pillarhouse.co.uk

About Pillarhouse International Ltd

Pillarhouse has been a leading force in the selective soldering of today’s modern machines; offering a range of machine options to cover the wide variety and complexity of today’s modern electronics. Our philosophy is to produce high engineering standard products with a focus on innovation and cutting edge development.

With Headquarters in Chelmsford – UK alongside supplementary Manufacturing, Sales/Service facility in Suzhou – China and Sales/Service support in Chicago – USA. Pillarhouse has developed into a Global Company with Sales and Service facilities in over 50 countries.

About IPC

Since 1957, IPC has been guiding the electronic interconnection industry through dramatic changes. IPC is the only trade association that brings together all of the players in this industry: designers, board manufacturers, assembly companies, suppliers, and original equipment manufacturers. More than 4,800 companies around the world depend on IPC programs and services to further their competitive excellence and financial success. As a member-driven organization and leading source for industry standards, training, market research and public policy advocacy, IPC supports programs to meet the needs of an estimated $2 trillion global electronics industry.