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roviding the right material at the right time in the right place and in the right quantity whilst avoiding unnecessary material


travel is the strength of the WORKS Logistics application. By controlling  intelligent manufacturing, it prevents ‘precautionary’ stocks next to the line as well as excess movements to and from storage.


“SMT manufacturers want to avoid machine downtimes at all cost, which makes a lot of sense,” says Alexander Nitzsche, Senior Product Manager Automation Solutions at ASMPT. “Unfortunately, this often leads to far more material than necessary being stored next to the line ‘as a precaution’ so that valuable  material is no longer available to other lines. It is also not uncommon for a reel 


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the machine and returned to storage to be transported back to the setup preparation area after only a few minutes, because it is needed again. With WORKS Logistics, things can be done much more easily and  requests and selective interim storage.”


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Time slice-based material flow WORKS Logistics continuously calculates the material demand based on customer-  with Factory Material Manager software to ensure that the right material is available in the right quantity at the right time in the right place. Based on the planned demand and actual material consumption, as well as the material stock on site, the  dynamically calculates and updates the demand along the line. The resulting data is the basis for the automatic control and  messages to central and intermediate storage locations, and time-driven transport jobs.


Material re-use WORKS Logistics also organises and optimises the interim storage of material in the setup preparation area, thus avoiding unnecessary material travel between the warehouse and the shop


 the machine after a production run has been completed, the application checks automatically whether the material will be needed again for additional orders in the coming days. If this is the case,  question to the Active Feeder Rack in the setup preparation area. If additional material is needed, WORKS Logistics automatically sends a request to the warehouse via the Factory Material Manager.


Supply security and resource relief “WORKS Logistics marks another important step on the road to the intelligent and integrative use of data for process optimisation,” explains Nitzsche. “As an innovation and market leader in hardware and software for electronics manufacturing, we were able to pour our entire process know-how and many years of experience into the development of WORKS Logistics. Our customers get a practice-orientated application for their intelligent factory that gives them supply security and provides noticeable relief for their operators as well as for their transport and storage infrastructure.”


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