Smart Electronics Manufacturing
Smart manufacturing for electronics transforms your factory, streamlining operations to tackle supply chain uncertainties and resource constraints. Boost efficiency, improve quality, and enhance predictability to reduce costs and lead times while ensuring on-time delivery.
What is smart manufacturing for electronics?
Smart manufacturing digitally integrates electronics production by connecting design, factory processes and material flow through a digital twin of production. This helps streamline operations, boost efficiency, reduce costs and improve quality across the production lifecycle, so you can adapt quickly to market shifts.
Accelerate electronics manufacturing
Manufacturers must adapt quickly to changing market and customer demands. By using a digital twin of production, smart manufacturing helps streamline processes, reduce time‑to‑market and cut costs - enabling faster, lower‑risk responses to industry change and innovation.
100% Quality delivery performance and more
"Our mission is 100% quality, 100% delivery performance and 100% waste-free," says Bernd Schmid, plant manager at Siemens MF-K. "That means we want to manufacture our products with as few resources as possible." (Siemens MF-K)
20% Trends reshape the industry
“The only solution was digitalization,” says Franco Oliaro, CEO of ROJ. “Quality and speed, that is the challenge. The world is moving to extreme customization. For mass customization, you definitely need digitalization.” (ROJ)
$2M Saved in production costs
Electrolux achieved 30% faster time to market and 100% factory digitalization, demonstrating how virtual problem-solving can significantly reduce production time and costs. (Electrolux)
Streamline electronics manufacturing processes
From electronics (PCB) and mechanical design to advanced manufacturing flows, accelerate your operations by leveraging three paths of digital transformation.
Digitally define and reuse manufacturing intent across planning and execution to reduce risk, improve consistency and accelerate execution.
- Reuse design and process data across the production lifecycle
- Validate manufacturing changes virtually before execution
- Reduce errors, rework, and late‑stage disruptions
- Optimize use of factory space
- Simulate new production conditions
Connect production data across systems to create a closed‑loop manufacturing environment that improves performance and responsiveness.
- Exchange real‑time data between IT and OT systems
- Detect issues earlier and respond faster on the shop floor
- Continuously improve quality, efficiency and throughput
Use simulation and virtual commissioning to identify and resolve production issues before physical deployment.
- Simulate production lines, cells and machines virtually
- Reduce commissioning risk and deployment delays
- Accelerate ramp‑up for new products and production lines
- Optimize material flow and reduce waste
- Enhance planning and delivery of diverse products
Enable flexible, software‑driven automation that adapts quickly to change without disrupting operations.
- Deploy modular, scalable automation systems
- Reconfigure production rapidly to handle variability
- Maintain quality and on‑time delivery as conditions change
Improve electronics manufacturing
40% Reduction new product introduction
Using Valor Process Preparation software and creating a comprehensive digital twin for each process step, ROJ reduced their new product introduction time by over 40 percent through fast setup and simple process preparation.
(ROJ)
30% Accelerated stencil preparation
Using Valor Process Preparation software speed up your stencil data generation. This, coupled with a 10% faster SMT process and more accurate BOM quotes, enabled BMK to handle increased NPI/ECO projects efficiently. (BMK)
20% Reduced costs of defects
Implementing Opcenter and Valor software enables closed-loop quality control for Scanfil, improving productivity by over 10%, increasing speed by 40% and enhancing setup changeovers in high-mix, low-volume production. (Scanfil)
Siemens Rastatt
Using AOI false call reduction software increases first pass yield by 42 percent
Company:Siemens Rastatt
Industry:Electronics, Semiconductor devices
Location:Rastatt, Germany
Siemens Software:Opcenter APS, Opcenter Intelligence for On Premises
One of the big advantages of Opcenter AOI FCR is that it is a SaaS solution that significantly reduces the effort on our side. It was completely ready to be integrated into our AOI machines. It took less than 12 weeks to go from the first discussions to the start of commissioning. Twelve weeks later we started the operation phase successfully.
Smart manufacturing resource library
Discover how smart manufacturing transforms electronics production. Explore our resource library to learn how a digital twin of production connects design, factory processes and material flow, helping manufacturers reduce risk, adapt faster to market demands and stay competitive in the dynamic electronics industry.
Integrated electronics manufacturing solutions
Manufacturing process planning
Manufacturing execution management
Production planning and scheduling
Quality management
Industrial IoT
Application platform development
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