Re: MANUFACTURING SOFTWARE

Joerg wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Joerg wrote:

Robert Latest wrote:


Joerg wrote:



My clients pretty much all do it the same way. No kitting. They send the
whole set of parts over, boards get stuffed and the balance of parts
comes back with the stuffed boards.


I thought kitting meant just that -- sending in all parts and getting the
assembled boards back? Or did I miss a pun?


In the US it usually means kitting with the exact number of parts
needed. I don't think that is efficient. So, in a production environment
I prefer handing the folks there some authority to pull what they think
they'll need. In the case of the ultrasound systems that allowed them to
keep spares in case something broke off, or pull less than required for
the whole month so more shop space remained available. One requirement
in medical is training in stock keeping because they could also return
stuff that wasn't needed back to the stock room.

With the circuit boards we just sent the whole stock of parts. Labor
cost for kitting: Zilch. Time delay due to kitting: Zilch.



That is OK if you don't have several hundered, to a thousand
different jobs in process at one time.


In those cases we still did it but the stock remained at the contract
assembler. Later the contract assembler gradually took over purchasing,
further reducing our overhead costs.


Almost all of our work was in house, and there was a lot of custom
aluminum chassis and covers. Every module was shielded, and all wiring
fed through feedthru capacitors to reduce noise and RF leakage as much
as possible. It just didn't make sense to farm out numerous small runs
that were similar, and when it was tried, it was a disaster. A lot of
mistakes, and late deliveries meant a lot of in house overtime to
correct the problems, not to mention replacing the wrong or damaged
parts. As an engineer to order job shop, things were very different
than a normal electronics manufacturing situation.


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prove it.
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Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
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