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and Quality Improvements Continued from previous page


TTC program gain complete visibility of their product by means of Saline’s production floor, especially impor- tant for customers desiring detailed access and quality control of an out- sourced assembly. Data from the TTC system can


also provide information on potential cost reductions in building a PCB as- sembly. The system can improve risk management, since any problems can be tracked by specific serial num- bers rather than recalling an entire job lot.


Traceability, Process Control,


provements that will lead to lower costs and tighter process controls. Since implementing the TTC


system in April 2014, Saline has al- ready seen a reduction in cycle time due to accelerated SMT changeovers. For Kanban system and kit manage- ment, the low-level alarms help to optimize asset utilization and pro- ductivity by prompting operators to pull parts before running empty and shutting down a line. As Eric Hassen, General Man-


The additional data provided by the system will help improve


TTC system will also contribute to lean manufacturing, and


Saline is only beginning to learn


of the improvements that are made possible by using this TTC system. The additional data provided by the system will help improve assembly processes beyond those on the Cogis- can program. The TTC system will also contribute to lean manufactur- ing, and eliminate waste and unnec- essary procedures. It will help reduce wasted time on the production floor, with the transition from manual da- ta logging to automated RFID and semiautomatic bar code scanning. Analyzing calculated throughput compared to actual real-time data will also encourage factory-wide im-


assembly processes beyond those on the Cogiscan program. The


eliminate waste and unnecessary procedures.


ager and Vice-President at Saline, notes: “We are very excited to roll out the Cogiscan traceability software across all of our manufactur- ing processes. This TTC sys- tem, working in conjunction with Juki’s Intelligent Feeder system, will provide an ad- vanced level of control across the SMT assembly process.” He added: “I’m also looking forward to the paperless meth - od of defect data mining, which will provide quick iden- tification of any negative qual-


ity trends that will allow us to react much sooner.” The partnership with Cogiscan


has enabled Saline to provide its customers with the most innovative and advanced traceability system available. Contact: Saline Lectronics, Inc.,


710 North Maple Road, Saline, MI 48176 % 951-294-7594 E-mail: dmcdonnell@lectronics.net Web: www.lectronics.net or Cogiscan, Inc., 28-B Airport Blvd., Bromont, Quebec, Canada J2L 1S6 % 450-578-1644 E-mail: mdecaire@cogiscan.com Web: www.cogiscan.com r


Multidomain MDM Software Continued from pqge 16


entire purpose of using MDM soft- ware, which is to enable an integrat- ed view of the enterprise’s most crit- ical information as it flows into the processes that drive the business and decision-making.


l Multidomain MDM tools are de-


signed to minimize failures due to the use of MDM software. A mul- tidomain MDM platform provides a single technology stack for manag- ing data, rather than distinct, unco- ordinated approaches to separate master data domains (built on mul- tiple technology stacks).


The growth of multidomain


MDM software has kept pace with the enterprise-wide data needs of global manufacturing companies. Single-domain MDM solutions don’t really address today’s business prob- lems, which almost always span more than one master data domain. As a result, trying to receive an accu- rate view of this information from an MDM hub originally designed for a single domain can be challenging. A single, enterprise-wide data


model for master data provides a simpler architecture. Unified gover- nance is made possible by a single data quality foundation, with a sin- gle set of business rules and user in- terface. Better analytics are achieved once the master data from the mul- tidomain MDM hub is combined with the transactional data from the CRM and ERP systems, and then made available through a data warehouse or business intelligence solution. A multidomain MDM solution


supports cross-functional collabora- tion and improves performance be-


Shifting Towards


cause everyone in the enterprise is working from the same underlying data (probably for the first time), and employees aren’t wasting time every month reconciling multiple sets of re- dundant master data. One of the main purposes of


MDM is to break down silos within the company, not to increase the num- ber of them. Certainly, senior man- agement at a company would not be pleased if the firm had implemented multiple, disconnected master data ef- forts, rather than a unified, multido- main platform. The disconnected master data efforts would be difficult to explain and could also result in the failure of an MDM project. Many companies struggle with


the speed of change in today’s busi- ness world. Mergers and acquisitions are an almost-constant fact of life in today’s business world, new technolo- gies emerge to disrupt current busi- ness models, and business executives are placed in difficult positions by in- creasingly competitive pressures to grow revenues and cut costs. Fortu- nately, multidomain MDM software offers a solution that helps manufac- turers respond to the pressures to eliminate, simplify, standardize, and automate different segments of their businesses. In the process, the use of multidomain MDM solutions can help manufacturers regain their competitive advantages. Contact: Stibo Systems,


Kennesaw, GA Web: www.stibosystems.com or Hub Designs, 188 Whiting St., Suite 6A, Hingham, MA 02043-8910 % 781-749-8910 E-mail: info@hubdesigns.com Web: www.hubdesigns.com r


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