The Hermes Standard (IPC-HERMES-9852) is a machine-to-machine communication standard used in the SMT Electronics Assembly Industry. It is the successor to the SMEMA Standard (IPC-SMEMA-9851), introducing improvements such as :
Simpler physical wiring (the use of a single Ethernet cable), use of popular data transmission formats (TCP/IP and XML), reduced number of barcode scanners, transmission of board data records (such as including barcodes and dimensions) to Downstream machines. Read More