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Operating data acquisition in electronics manufacturing
Nowadays it is a must for manufacturing companies to focus more on process-related manufacturing management systems (MES). These systems are located in the software architecture below the ERP systems and above the automation level. While the ERP system has the entire company in view and enables logistical optimization across locations, the MES system focuses on individual production lines of a company.
Author: Hans Jörg Lebert
appeared in the Productronic 07/2011
In the best case, the MES system continuously collects all the operating data that arises along the material flow of these production lines and makes it available to the higher-level ERP system. In this way, complete traceability of products, components or batches can be ensured. Especially with regard to the Product Liability Act, this forms the basis for documenting product development ...
iPad - Feeling in quality assurance
published as a preliminary report for the fair in PLUS 2011
AOI solutions are usually not applicable in this area. Either the creation of a test program is not worth the time or the high number of pseudo errors binds - in addition to programming - an additional worker. In the THT area, it is also not possible to create an AOI program due to missing data for the components. Therefore, such optical inspection tasks are often solved manually. The inspectors laboriously compare component by component with a magnifying glass and golden board or parts list. This type of inspection is very tiring and extremely time consuming. In addition, it cannot be traced whether ...