The Hermes Standard:

The new backbone for

Our World becomes digital board-flow data management
in Smart SMT Factories

www.the-hermes-standard.info

The
The Hermes Standard for Hermes
vendor Standard
independent for vendor independent
machine-to-machine communication machine-to-machine
in SMT Assembly. communication in SMT Assembly.
 Welcome to The Hermes Standard
for M 2 M communication

Our World becomes digital

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 Welcome to The Hermes Standard
for M 2 M communication

Everything
Gets Connected.

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 Innovation in Communication
“Every Day Life”

All the way from manual switch boards… … to instant global connections.

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 Innovation in Communication
“Telecommunications Infrastructure”

From „One line – Two wires each“… … to multi channel glass fibre.

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 Innovation in Communication
“Along the SMT Line”

From IPC-SMEMA 9851… … to The Hermes Standard

for vendor independent
Machine to Machine communication

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 Innovation in Communication
“Along the SMT Line”

From IPC-SMEMA 9851… … to The Hermes Standard

for vendor independent
Machine to Machine communication

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 Innovation in Communication
“Welcome to The Hermes Standard”

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 Challenges: The Situation before The Hermes Standard
How does SMEMA* work?

Source: IPC SMEMA 9851

Mechanical Equipment
Interface Standard, IPC,
Rev. 2007
E.g.: Communication for board transfer

Load Print SPI Place Trans CPI Shield Trans Oven AOI Repair ICT Repair F-Test

*IPC-SMEMA Standard 9851

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 Challenges: The Situation before The Hermes Standard
How does SMEMA* work?

Source: IPC SMEMA 9851

Mechanical Equipment
Interface Standard, IPC,
Rev. 2007
SMEMA reflects the state-of-the-art in automation... of the early 1990s.

Load Print SPI Place Trans CPI Shield Trans Oven AOI Repair ICT Repair F-Test

*IPC-SMEMA Standard 9851

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 Challenges: The Situation before The Hermes Standard
How does SMEMA* work?

E.g.: PCB identification

o o o o o oo o o o o o o
Load Print SPI Place Trans CPI Shield Trans Oven AOI Repair ICT Repair F-Test

In mixed vendor lines,

ID readers were required
before each machine
o Board ID Scanning required
*IPC-SMEMA Standard 9851

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 Challenges: The Situation before The Hermes Standard
High level line control was burdened with additional load and complexity

“High level line control system”

“Equipment Control Units”

o o o oo oo oo oo o o o o o
Load Print SPI Place Trans CPI Shield Trans Oven AOI Repair ICT Repair F-Test

o Board ID Scanning required

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 Challenges: The Situation before The Hermes Standard
High level line control was burdened with additional load and complexity

“High system”
High level line control system

“The Old World”:

Complex and Faulty

o o o oo oo oo oo o o o o o
Load Print SPI Place Trans CPI Shield Trans Oven AOI Repair ICT Repair F-Test

No data available, no closed loop handover.

o Board ID Scanning required

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 “Old” versus “New”
SMEMA cannot be upgraded to unleash the options of latest technology

IPC-SMEMA-9851

▪ Multiple cable types. At least 4 different types of cables:

Plug – Pin, Plug – socket, Plug – plug and Pin – pin

▪ Rather expensive due to dedicated HW requirements.

▪ Need to check each machine to connect for getting the right

cable

▪ Additional information needs to be modulated on the hardware

signals

▪ There is no general system to keep additional information

through several machines

SMEMA was leading edge process technology when

defined, but it offers no option for “the future”

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 “Old” versus “New”
The Hermes Standard: New Generation Technology

Why is The Hermes Standard the better solution?

▪ Protocol based instead of “signal based”:

Easy to adjust and easy to expand for integrating
further information.

▪ Standard components instead of “special needs”:

Cables, plugs and interfaces inexpensive
and easily available .

▪ Integrated data management versus separation:

Consistent board and data assignment.

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 The Hermes Standard
More Value through smooth communication

The Hermes Standard (IPC-HERMES-9852)

Full Process data availability, maximum line throughput & traceability.

Load Print SPI Place Trans CPI Shield Trans Oven AOI Repair ICT Repair F-Test

Standardized M to M Interface
via The Hermes Standard
o Need for board identification (Barcode scanning / RFID reading, etc) only once per line and typically at the beginning:

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 The Hermes Standard
More Value through smooth communication

The Hermes Standard (IPC-HERMES-9852)

Full Process data availability, maximum line throughput & traceability.

Load Print SPI Place Trans CPI Shield Trans Oven AOI Repair ICT Repair F-Test

The product drives the change!

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 The Hermes Standard
Designed to meet the requirements – today and in future

The Hermes Standard (IPC-HERMES-9852)

Full Process data availability, maximum line throughput & traceability.

1) Generic communication back bone to work even in mixed-brand equipment lines.

2) Product centric approach, keeping complexity under control.

3) Board tracking along the entire line with single board ID reading possible.

4) Open protocol, adaptable to further and future requirements.

5) Standard Interfaces (Ethernet) reduce cost and effort for installation.

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 The Hermes Standard protocol: “step by step”
Signalling MachineReady (downstream) and BoardAvailable (upstream)

Upstream Machine Downstream Machine

BoardAvailable
BoardId MachineReady MachineReady
BoardIdCreatedBy FailedFlag
FailedBoard
ProductTypeId BoardAvailable
FlippedBoard
TopBarcode
BottomBarcode
Width
Length
Thickness
ConveyorSpeed

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 The Hermes Standard protocol: “step by step”
What kind of data can be transmitted?

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 The Hermes Standard protocol: “step by step”
What is a GUID?

Globally Unique Identifier

eg. 123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426655440000

Chances of collision are negligable

5.3x1036 randomly generatable GUIDs exist

Need to generate 2.7x1018 for a 50% collision chance

Hermes uses GUIDs as a handle to uniquely identify and track boards

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 The Hermes Standard protocol: “step by step”
Board Handover

Upstream Machine Downstream Machine

StartTransport(BeltSpeed) Conveyor on
Conveyor on

Board is being StartTransport

BoardId
transferred ConveyorSpeed
Conveyor off TransportFinished(Complete)

TransportFinished StopTransport(Complete) Conveyor off

TransferState
BoardId StopTransport
TransferState
BoardId

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 The Hermes Standard protocol: “step by step”
… and so on …

Upstream Machine Downstream Machine

BoardAvailable

MachineReady

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 Standing on the shoulders of giants:
TCP/IP and XML

TCP/IP
Reliable connection-oriented communication protocol
Provides time-out handling

XML
Tagged data to ensure compatibility with future versions of Hermes
Predefined W3C standards for date, time, representation of floating point
numbers etc.
For simplicity, restricted to UTF-8 (for Hermes 1.0, this effectively amounts to
ASCII).
Overhead in size irrelevant for Hermes messages

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 Welcome to The Hermes Standard
IPC-HERMES-9852 for M 2 M communication

The Hermes Standard

gets everything connected.

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 The Hermes Standard
Introduction to The Hermes Standard Initiative

Connectivity Needs Cooperation

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 The Hermes Standard Initiative
Core guidelines

• The Hermes Standard Initiative is a joint project of

leading vendors of electronics assembly equipment.

• Active participation is open to all vendors

of electronics assembly equipment.

• All members are equally important in a fair and open

decision making process.

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 The Hermes Standard Initiative
A global footprint defines a global standard

All equipment vendors are invited to join!

The Hermes Standard Initiative
Achat5 Holly Rejoint The Hermes Standard Initiative
allSMT ILJIN Rundfunk Gernrode (Official meeting language: English*)
ASM IPTE SAKI
ASYS ITW SEHO
BESI JAPAN UNIX SEICA
BTU KIC Seica Automation
CTI KOH YOUNG SMT
CTS kolb CLEANING TECHNOLOGY Solderstar
CYBEROPTICS Kulicke and Soffa Sonic Technology
ECD Magic Ray Technology SPEA
Kurtzersa MIRTEC SYSTECH Europe
EUNIL MYCRONIC TRI
EXELSIUS Nordson Asymtec Universal Instruments
FENIX NUTEK VISCOM
FlexLink OMRON ViTrox
GKG OSAI YJ LINK
Göpel PARMI Yxlon
Hanwha PEMTRON
Heller REHM

• All vendors of SMT equipment are invited to join.

• Participation is free of charge.
• All results are published via www.the-Hermes-standard.info
• Committed to open standard principles as published at www.open-stand.org

*A notable comment because at “JARA” meetings, you need to understand Japanese. If you are invited at all…
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 The Hermes Standard Initiative
Digitalization need cooperation

The Hermes Standard The Hermes Standard Initiative

The Hermes Standard The Hermes Standard Initiative Members “Member Companies”
Public Website “Members Meeting” Online Forum
▪ Welcoming and introduction of new Joint Individual
Public Area Members Area Activities
members Activities
▪ Global Info ▪ Discussion Forum “Chair
▪ Discussion of proposals ▪ “Organization ▪
▪ Download of ▪ Joint development Functions”
Open ▪ Decisions about new releases & Admin”
Specification Online
of The Hermes Committed
▪ Commu-
Joint Marketing Regular Meetings Standard protocol
▪ Joint projects ▪ Own product
Communication Cooperation
▪ Download of Members development
nication internal documents
▪ Field Tests
▪ Individual Sales
▪ Joint Marketing
Activities & & Marketing
About 6 months activities
Com’cation
8 Weeks

Next “Members Meeting”

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 The Hermes Standard Initiative
Digitalization need cooperation

The Hermes Standard The Hermes Standard Initiative

The Hermes Standard The Hermes Standard Initiative Members “Member Companies”
Public Website “Members Meeting” Online Forum
▪ Welcoming and introduction of new Joint Individual
Public Area Members
MembersArea
Area Activities
members Activities
▪ Global Info ▪▪ Discussion
DiscussionForum
Forum “Chair
▪ Discussion of proposals ▪ “Organization ▪
▪ Download of The▪▪Hermes
Joint Standard
Jointdevelopment
development Functions”
▪ Decisions about new releases & Admin”
Specification Members
of TheOnline
ofThe Hermes Forum
Hermes
▪ Joint Marketing Standard
Standardprotocol
protocol ▪ Own product
▪ Joint projects
Communication ▪▪ Download
Downloadof of development
▪ Field Tests
internal
internaldocuments
documents ▪ Individual Sales
▪ Joint Marketing
Activities & & Marketing
About 6 months activities
Com’cation
8 Weeks

Next “Members Meeting”

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 The Hermes Standard time line
“From Zero To Hero” in under 18 months

Early 2016 First Discussions

March 2017 Foundation Meeting (First “Members’ Meeting”) 16 members

Agreement on Release Vso.1.0

April 2017 Public Website Online

Just One Year

Productive Solutions
June 2017 “Members’ Forum” website online

Released Products
Specification
Field Tests
November 2017 Second “Members Meeting”, official Go Live!” and 27 members
exhibiting at Productronica in Munich;
Release of Vso 1.0 Rev1

February 2018 Joint activity with ipc cfx and exhibiting at APEX in San Diego

April 2018 Third “Members’ Meeting” and exhibiting at Nepcon China ~ 45 members
Planned to release Vso 1.1

August 2018 Announcement of IPC-HERMES-9852 > 50 members

Next Event:
January 2019 Fourth “Members Meeting” at APEX Expo in San Diego, CA, USA

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 The Hermes Standard: Core advantages in a nutshell
The new backbone for board-flow data management in Smart SMT Factories

The Hermes Standard: „Better By Design“

▪ The Hermes Standard will replace the current “SMEMA” Standard.
▪ There is only need for one board ID reader for a whole line.
▪ Based on well established technologies such as TCP/IP and XML,
the protocol is easy to adapt to future requirements.
▪ Utilizing Standard components makes it inexpensive and ultimately flexible.
▪ Data Management and Traceability features are fully integrated.

The Hermes Standard Initiative: Open, transparent, agile.

▪ The Hermes Standard Initiative is open for all vendors of assembly equipment.
▪ Cooperation is based on clear processes and procedures.
▪ After only one year, about fifty companies are supporting the standard.
And the initiative keeps growing

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 The new backbone for
board-flow data management
in Smart SMT Factories.
The
The Hermes Standard for Hermes
vendor Standard
independent for vendor independent
machine-to-machine communication machine-to-machine
in SMT Assembly. communication in SMT Assembly.
 The new backbone for
board-flow data management
in Smart SMT Factories.

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The
The Hermes Standard for Hermes
vendor Standard
independent for vendor independent
machine-to-machine communication machine-to-machine
in SMT Assembly. communication in SMT Assembly.
 APPENDIX

The
The Hermes Standard for Hermes
vendor Standard
independent for vendor independent
machine-to-machine communication machine-to-machine
in SMT Assembly. communication in SMT Assembly.
 Giving Evidence of current advantages
Old “SMEMA problems” versus The Hermes Standard solutions

The Issue At SMEMA At The Hermes Standard (1.0)

1) Scenario ▪ Several error scenarios undefined: ▪ Most error scenarios already defined
definitions in the e.g. PCB is signalled to be handed over but has not ▪ Easily expandable in future versions
protocol arrived because the signal “PCB arrived” is missing
2) Dealing with ▪ Variety of specified cable set makes it hard to bring ▪ Only one standard cable type, which is easily and
defective Cables the exact replacement to the site or requires broad inexpensively available: Ethernet cables.
stock.
3) Hardware ▪ Cables are “hand made” w/o standard lengths. ▪ Only Ethernet port necessary
installation effort ▪ Installation of SMEMA box & adapter ▪ No separate SMEMA cable necessary
▪ Separate cables for LAN and SMEMA ▪ “Dual lane” required no (!) additional hardware,
▪ “Dual Lane” requires second set of entire hardware it is fully covered by the protocol
4) Synchronizing ▪ Data is transfer requires separate Ethernet interface ▪ No synchronization is necessary and no timing issues
PCB data ▪ Data must be synchronized with SMEMA signals exist as data is transferred together with handover
and hand-over assigned to PCB message.
message ▪ Timing must match all vendors to ensure correct ▪ Implementation of transferring data between different
assignment vendors very easy.
5) Flexibility at ▪ Specific cable length is necessary, therefore any ▪ Standard Ethernet cables: Easily available and specific
changing line change in the line configuration leads to new cabling length is not required.
configurations

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 The naïve approach to data transfer

Data I
Data I Data II
Data I Data Data III
II
Equipment Equipment Equipment Equipment
I II III VI

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 Hermes transfers keys (unique ID, barcode), not data

ID ID ID

Equipment Equipment Equipment Equipment

I II III VI

ID
ID Out of scope
of Hermes 1.0
ID Controller
(but enabled!)
Database
GetBoardData(ID)

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 Hermes: Peer to Peer or Client-Server?

ID „Server“
ID
ID
Downstrea Downstrea
Upstream Upstream
m m
The Hermes
Standard
The Hermes Standard facilitates a Server („Man in the Middle“) in order to
▪ route through different network segments
▪ track the board flow
▪ intercept the board flow

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 Hermes step by step
I: Establishing the connection from down- to upstream

Upstream Machine Downstream Machine

Open connection (TCP three-way handshake)

ServiceDescriptionDownstream() ServiceDescription
MachineId
ServiceDescriptionUpstream()
LaneId
HermesVersion
SupportedFeatures

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 Hermes step by step
II: Exchanging CheckAlive messages

Upstream Downstream
Machine Machine

loop
CheckAlive()
CheckAlive
CheckAlive() TimeStamp

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 Hermes step by step
III: Signalling MachineReady (downstream) and BoardAvailable (upstream)

BoardAvailable Upstream Downstream

BoardId Machine Machine
ProductTypeId
FailedFlag
TopBarcode MachineReady
BottomBarcode
FlippedBoard
BoardIdCreatedBy BoardAvailable
BoardWidth
BoardLength
BoardThickness MachineReady
ConveyorSpeed FailedFlag
BottomClearance
TopClearance

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 Hermes step by step
IV: Board handover

Upstream Downstream
Machine Machine
StartTransport(BeltSpeed) Conveyor on
Conveyor on

Board is being StartTransport

BoardId
transferred ConveyorSpeed
Conveyor off TransportFinished(Complete)
TransportFinished StopTransport(Complete) Conveyor off
TransferState
BoardId StopTransport
TransferState
BoardId

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 Hermes step by step
V: and so on …

Upstream Downstream
Machine Machine

BoardAvailable

MachineReady

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 Hermes step by step
VI: Graceful shutdown

Upstream Downstream
Machine Machine

Notification(Info, MachineShutdown)

Notification Close TCP connection

NotificationCode
Severity
Description

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 The Hermes Standard state chart

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 Hermes Configuration (I)

Engineering
Station

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 Hermes Configuration (II)

To ensure easy and fast configuration, The Hermes Standard protocol defines
configuration messages

SetConfiguration
Used to configure the Hermes interfaces of a machine

GetConfiguration
Used to read out the configuration of the Hermes interfaces

CurrentConfiguration
Response to a GetConfiguration-Message

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 Hermes Configuration (III)

SetConfiguration

<Hermes Timestamp="2017-03-22T13:20:30.452">
<SetConfiguration MachineId="TRM01">
<UpstreamConfigurations>
<UpstreamConfiguration UpstreamLaneId="1" HostAddress="192.168.1.2" Port="50101" />
<UpstreamConfiguration UpstreamLaneId="2" HostAddress="192.168.1.2" Port="50102" />
</UpstreamConfigurations>
<DownstreamConfigurations>
<DownstreamConfiguration DownstreamLaneId="1" Port="50101" />
<DownstreamConfiguration DownstreamLaneId="2" ClientAddress="192.168.1.4" Port="50102" />
</DownstreamConfigurations>
</SetConfiguration>
</Hermes>

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 Removing and re-inserting a board in an SMT assembly line

a) The repair station creates a new BoardId and attaches the scanned barcode to it. An MES correlates the
old and new BoardId and merges the various pieces of information.

b) The repair station queries the MES via barcode for the associated BoardId . Board handover continues
using the old BoardId .

c) The repair station prompts the user to confirm that the inserted board is the one that was removed.

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