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SIPLACE Challenge:
Product Changeover The diversity of products and the resulting product changeover effort on the production line require customized processes. The flexibility spectrum ranges from million-unit runs with a single changeover per quarter to multiple changeovers per shift with lot sizes in the single digits and a planning horizon of only a few hours. That’s why product changeover concepts play such an important role in the selection of new manufacturing equipment. Selecting the most effective setup concept can reduce the cost of feeders and placement modules by up to 30 percent and make a significant dent in the cost of regular production runs.
Material transparency on the production floor with SIPLACE Facts |
Reiner Thiele, Production Engineering,
Siemens Elektronikwerk, Amberg, Germany “One of our goals at Elektronikwerk Amberg is to achieve maximum material transparency in our production. We repeatedly encounter discrepancies between our theoretical and actual inventory numbers, which can easily lead to production stops. We would like to have a solution that lets us locate material in the shortest possible time.”
The Challenge:
“Does the SIPLACE team achieve maximum material transparency?“
Floating setup changeovers with SIPLACE Random Setup |
Matthew Goeringer,
VP of Manufacturing,
Arc-Tronics, Inc., Elk Grove Village, USA “To speed up our setup changeovers, we are already operating with movable feeder tables and offline setup stations. Are there any other concepts which would make our setup processes even faster and more flexible without having to invest in additional hardware?”
The Challenge:
"Can the SIPLACE team set up product B while product A is still running without having to stop the line?”
Clever board stabilization with SIPLACE Smart Pin Support |
Dieter Mussemann, Production Engineering,
Siemens Elektronikwerk, Amberg, Germany
“In our flexible production environment with lots of fast setup changeovers I must also deal with board support pins and make sure that no support pins hit any components on the bottom side of the PCB. We are currently doing this manually, but this is inaccurate and time-consuming. We also would much rather use the resulting downtime to produce more boards.”
The Challenge:
“Can the SIPLACE team set the pins automatically in five seconds or less without hitting a component on the populated bottom of the PCB?”
Transparent feeder condition and location data with the SIPLACE Feeder Manager |
Bernhard Rindt,
Member of the Management Board,
SRI Radio Systems GmbH, Durach, Germany “Whenever I run a new product I don’t know if I have enough feeders in good condition and where they are located.”
The Challenge:
“Can the SIPLACE team have the required feeder on the line in 30 seconds or less?"
Saving on investment by defining constant feeder tables with SIPLACE SiCluster Pro |
Reiner Thiele, Production Engineering,
Siemens Elektronikwerk, Amberg, Germany “We have analyzed various setup concepts for quite some time now. When we change setups, we usually replace all feeder tables. When we took a closer look at our products, we noticed that we use some components for several products. We already tried to determine these multi-product components ‘manually’ and set them up permanently in order to reduce our setup effort. Unfortunately, this slowed down our cycle times considerably. We would like to save on setup equipment and labor in this area.”
The Challenge:
“Can the SIPLACE team reduce our investment in additional setup equipment by up to 50 percent without creating a significant increase in the cycle time?”
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