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intelligent tools like our own InControl Supply Chain Orchestra - tion will continue to improve our per- formance and ability to support and enable our increasingly digital cus- tomers.
What excites me most is what
all of this can do for the end user. These technologies, combined with engineering rigor and the experience to industrialize them, allows us to empower brands to change the world for the better through better medical products, greater road safety,
The standards for machine to machine (M2M) communication, guided in part by Industry 4.0, are quickly altering the manufacturing process by improving metrics, such as first pass yield and throughput, by implementing autonomous process adjustments. Far beyond a simple line
changeover between two different products, emerging communication standards allow companies to pro- vide closed-loop feedback to both screen printers and pick-and-place machines. This two-way communica- tion with other equipment suppliers allows the machines to automatically adjust production parameters to increase board quality, which lowers
costs by eliminating rework and scrap. While the lack of skilled resources remains a challenge, Industry 4.0 and its associated bene- fits will help to advance the entire industry.”
Mattias Andersson. “Industry 4.0 is all about collaboration: collabora- tion that is borderless, limitless and with instant access to the correct information. I believe that this will further disrupt our industry. Modularity will gain greater
Brent Fischthal,
senior marketing manager — Americas, Koh Young.
importance, not only in product design, but also allow us to cluster the supply chains further, down to individual processes — with exact
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Francois Monette, VP sales and marketing, Cogiscan.
smarter energy usage, and much more.”
Francois Monette. “I expect that the biggest agent for change will be the increasing sense of urgency from manufacturers to implement effec- tive industry 4.0 solutions. Leading companies have already started this journey and the competitive pressure is building fast for others to catch up. In 2018, it will no longer be pos-
sible to sit on the sidelines, hoping and waiting that other companies will solve all the issues. The smart factory is a long-term journey and it should start today. A practical roadmap must consider the installed base, which means that data collec- tion systems must be flexible, open, able to work with all existing and future standards and protocols, and be backward-compatible. Of course, the future is still
unclear, the only thing that is certain is that technology will continue to change faster and faster. In this con- text, manufacturers must select sys- tems and platforms that are flexible enough to handle today’s and tomor- row’s challenges. The time has come to jump on the Industry 4.0 band- wagon or be left behind.”
Brent Fischthal. “The electronics industry is acutely aware of the chal- lenges faced by manufacturers, due to a chronic shortage of U.S. workers with the necessary skillsets to fill manufacturing positions. Job hop- ping and employee misalignment further compound the shortage with a high turnover. While leading industry organi-
zations like IPC and SMTA are tack- ling the issue with educational pro- grams and training initiatives, it is not enough. Equipment suppliers, such as Koh Young, are working dili- gently to expedite the adoption and implementation of communication standards between manufacturers.
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