Siemens Productivity Lift Info Required

Vishy,

I was in the same boat. I had to run 3 siemens smt lines and get good results. I used the Arena simulation software to program in my 3 smt lines and found it very complicated but can be done. In parallel I took in industrial engineering students (4th year) to run a standard observation technique on the lines.

Second technique is very efficient in results - Good old method - as long as you are dealing with people running smt line in three shifts you need the human eye to get good results.

You will also find out that you want to hire one of the students when he graduates....

Roni

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Vishy,

We have a project to study the impact of productivity lift in SMT lines using discrete event simulation tools (AutoMod is what we use). As Mr. Lahat found out, the high fidelity simulation of productivity lift is non-trivial. However, we have made good progress. We will demonstrate at APEX and NEPCON West at Siemens booth. As you may imagine, the impact is highly dependent on applications. Our simulation with graphical emulation will allow users to customize to some degree to reflect their scenarios. We will prepare publications after the conferences.

If you have specific questions, please contact me.

Ragrads,

Chen

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