Electronics assembly and manufacturing service companies cannot afford to spend their engineers' time on cost calculations. This is particularly the case for small and mid-sized companies, where resources are limited. They need tools that will help them be leaner, faster, and even more accurate than their larger competition. This webinar will discuss how automation, working smarter, can speed up the request for proposal process, enabling drastically accelerated processing of supplier quotations.
Overview
PCB assembly accounts for approximately 25% of the entire cost of manufacturing an electronic product, making this the second biggest factor after materials. Calculating these costs can be a headache as manufacturing environments vary significantly and costs can be swayed by many interdependent factors. Machine types and models, labor rates and large swings in overall performance are just a few of the things that can cause expected costs and real costs to diverge.
Most manufacturers avoid digitalization in this area, using highly manual Excel-based calculation sheets filled out by experts who must have an in-depth knowledge of all aspects of the company’s manufacturing processes. This ties up valuable engineering resources and keeps the task disconnected from the quoting team.
In this webinar you will see how to use digitalization tools to create a truly integrated PCB production cost calculation which is completely integrated with the material and project quoting tasks. You will also get an overview of how a mid-size EMS company facing similar challenges with limited resources improved their RFQ response time to increase their “win ratio”.
Key Takeaways
- Find out what’s impeding electronics manufacturers in their PCB assembly quoting process
- See how other companies have accelerated the process through effective use of digitalization tools
- Gain insight into how to best make use of existing sources of data such as CAD, MES, machine configurations and planning results to speed up the process and make it more accurate
Speakers
Carpine works with PCBA manufacturers to improve their efficiency. His focus is electronics manufacturing optimization, covering the technical and financial aspects. After graduating the “Polytechnical” University of Timisoara (Romania), Carpine started his career as SMT process engineer in Flextronics more than 15 years ago. From 2009 he moved to the automotive industry and worked for Forvia(Hella) as a NPI engineer and later as a prototyping manager. Since 2016 Carpine has been living in Germany and developed his career in cost calculation and design for reliability, working for ZF and Marquardt Group. He joined Siemens in 2022, bringing his practical experience in electronics manufacturing and production cost calculation.
Decker-Weiss started his career in Silicon Valley in the late 1980’s after graduating from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). He was one of the founders of Router Solutions, which developed CAMCAD Professional, a highly successful early player in the burgeoning industrial engineering market and which is still in use today. Following the sale of the company to Mentor Graphics in 2006, he ran the European team as a Mentor partner, renaming the company CircuitByte upon the acquisition of Mentor by Siemens. As the developer of BOM Connector, Europe’s leading sourcing and quoting solution, and a Siemens Smart Expert partner for the Valor product line, CircuitByte has unmatched knowledge and experience in the electronics market and in Industry 4.0 digitalization.