Optimal Electronics’ Optimized Dynamic Scheduling Technology Featured in Global SMT & Packaging Magazine
AUSTIN, TX – October 26, 2010 – Optimal Electronics, a global provider of innovative software solutions for the control and optimization of the electronics assembly process, announced today that the company’s Optimized Dynamic Scheduling technology was featured in Global SMT & Packaging Magazine’s October 2010 edition. The magazine article highlighted how this innovative production scheduling technology enables electronics manufacturers to dramatically increase production capacity, while reducing operating costs.
As a growing number of electronics manufacturers are experiencing a shift in order types, volumes and requirements from customers, the emerging new model is one that requires companies to produce a higher mix and lower volume in short, just-in-time scenarios. Consequently, companies are facing massive changes in the way they must operate plants, maintain margin, and generate a profit. This shift to a high mix model introduces an array of new complexities, including larger numbers of daily changeovers, a greater variety of materials, and varying setup strategies for production runs. These factors result in costly issues such as lower production rates, higher headcount, more machine downtime, lower utilization, higher production costs, and ultimately, lower margins.
The company’s state-of-the-art Optimized Dynamic Production Scheduling approach, featured in Global SMT & Packaging Magazine, enables manufacturers to streamline and automate printed circuit board assembly scheduling to achieve fully optimized production capacity, in real time, without adding capital equipment or headcount. In this new dynamically optimized manufacturing environment, production operations can efficiently accommodate changing requirements – such as hot jobs or unanticipated component packages – by re-optimizing production on the fly to maximize manufacturing output.
Through the use of advanced algorithms, Optimal Electronics’ Optimized Dynamic Scheduling technology enables manufacturers to maximize production capacity beyond gains achieved with basic work order grouping approaches. Production schedules can be re-optimized as new work orders are introduced into the production stream – yielding increases of up to 50%, without additional equipment.
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"We evaluated all of the industry leading software solutions during our search for a new tool to manage our PCB assembly process. Optel was the only software capable of successfully modeling our production processes and practices (group setups, data management of multiple machines, etc.) utlizing legacy data and actually producing boards during our trials. Optimal Electronics continues to impress us with their abilities to deliver innovative new features and provide outstanding technical support."
Suresh Sundarababu
Process & Product Engineering Manager
National Instruments, Austin