Industry Management challenges
In the PCB industry, traditional manual scheduling or material calculation methods are no longer sufficient to meet the rapidly changing market demands for shorter lead times and higher quality, due to the increasing complexity of products and customer requirements. This has posed a challenge for management in the industry.
Challenges in PCB Industry Management
- Long production process, complex and cumbersome scheduling considerations for front and back-end processes.
- Difficulties in collecting and matching multiple production parameters for each station with different needs.
- Batch matching issues in the production of multilayer boards’ inner and outer layers.
- Different equipment processing times (recipes) for products with different parameters/yields.
- Consideration of unit conversions (Panel -> Strip -> PCS) during production.
- Splitting of work orders/lots (drilling, lamination) in accordance with production capacity/limitations.
- Machine arrangements must be linked between upstream and downstream processes for the sake of product yield.
- To improve production efficiency and minimize line changes, continuous batch production must be considered.
- Control of work-in-process (WIP) levels and queue times (excessive queue times can lead to product scrap).
- Synchronization of production rhythm for inner layer to outer layer lamination (considering long/short boards and main/auxiliary materials).
- Restriction of key materials (PP, Core considerations, SMT material matching, etc.).
- Determination of whether to outsource production or assign outsourcing based on internal factory conditions.
Industry Solutions
Implementation benefits
Multi-dimensional management/production use reports, with flexible customization
Through the use of APS, multiple dimensions of reports are provided to visualize the complex situations in the production site, such as equipment utilization rate, daily move trend of each station, equipment dispatch table of each station, etc. This provides PCB planners with a more efficient mode of operation.
