CFX 100 Series

CFX 100 is the first in this 3-part educational series designed to build IPC-CFX expertise. These short, engaging courses provide a comprehensive overview of CFX and machine communication as well as the base requirements for you and your company to get started with CFX. By the end of the series, you will be ready to start sending IPC-CFX messages.

Member Price
$50.00
Non-member Price
$65.00
Access
6 Months From Enrollment

  • Course Level: Introductory

  • Training Time

    Each video is 7-15 minutes

  • Certificate of Completion

  • Continuous Enrollment

    Access for 6 Months

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CFX 101: Introduction to CFX

  • Background and Purpose
    • What is CFX?
    • Why was it Created?
    • The Problems with Middleware
  • How does CFX work?
    • Transport
    • Content
    • Encoding
  • The CFX Capability Based Data Model
    • Building Block Concept
  • Introducing the CFX Software Development Kit
  • Getting Help

CFX 110: Understanding a CFX Network

  • Overall Architecture of a CFX Network
    • Endpoints and Handles
    • Message Routing and Black Box Concept
  • Messaging Patterns
    • Publishing Events
    • Receiving Events Published by Other Endpoints
    • Receiving and Processing Broadcast Requests
  • Direct Request/Response Communications

CFX 111: Configuring Your Endpoint to Participate in a CFX Network

  • CFX Networking Recap
  • AMQP 1.0 Sources and Targets
  • Message Brokers and AMQP 0.x Concepts
    • Exchanges and Queues
    • Exchange Types

Typical End-User Configuration(s) for CFX Equipment

CFX 112: Introduction to the CFX SDK Part

  • High-Level Overview of the SDK, and its Namespaces
  • Adding the SDK to your Solution
  • Creating and Transmitting Your First CFX Message
  • Typical Message Transmission Scenarios
    • Publication
    • Request / Response
    • Accessing GitHub and the .NET SDK Source Code

CFX 113: Introduction to the CFX SDK Part II

  • SDK Reliability Features and Message Spooling
  • Securing your Endpoint with Authentication
  • Implementing Network Security and Encryption

This course is designed for equipment suppliers, software developers, and IT professionals interested in implementing CFX in their own products or factory environments.

IPC offers different instructional modalities to suit participants with different needs and preferences. This program is available in the following modalities:

Online-self-paced: Participants can access course materials on the IPC EDGE Learning Management System at any time and complete them at their own pace. However, organizations may set completion deadlines, as well as monitor the progress of the participants they register for a course.

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