Manufacturing and Industrial
Software for Electronics Manufacturing
Assembly units building boards and devices where components are serialised and traceability runs to component level.
Electronics assembly carries a bill of material that is long, precise and volatile. Component substitution is routine, lead times move without warning, and a single wrong part reaches every unit built that shift. Traceability has to reach further down than in most manufacturing, because a recall is usually about one component from one reel.
What gets in the way
- Bills of material run to hundreds of lines where one wrong part affects the whole batch
- Component substitution is routine and rarely recorded against the units it went into
- Reel and lot identity is lost at the feeder, so traceability stops at the board
- Rework is common and its cost is absorbed rather than attributed
- Component lead times move faster than the purchase plan they feed
What the software handles
- Bill of material with revision control and approved alternates
- Component lot recorded against the build, not just the purchase
- In-process inspection at placement and after reflow
- Serialised finished units linked to the components they contain
- Rework recorded against the unit and the cause
What changes
- A recall scoped to the units that actually carry the affected component
- Substitutions visible rather than discovered during a field failure
- Rework cost attributed to a stage instead of absorbed into overhead
- Purchase planning that reflects real component lead times
Questions
That is the requirement worth scoping carefully, because it depends on how components are identified at the feeder rather than on the software alone. Tell us how your line handles reel identity and we will tell you plainly what is achievable.
Software for your electronics manufacturing business
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