Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 15 08:24:48 EDT 2008 | pima
Hello I would like to ask you what kind of production do u treat for high mix and low volume. I mean what is your definition for this high mix and low volume - is 5 changovers for shift is high mix and low volume technology? And what kind of SMT p
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 23 14:44:50 EDT 2008 | swag
As a user of UIC Advantis with NPI for a couple years now, it kicks butt for low volume high mix. In full production mode it's great for the higher volume builds as well.
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 16 13:29:03 EDT 2008 | vickt
Peter, Everyone's definition of High Mix-Low Volume is somewhat different. The die-hards will say batch sizes 1
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 16 13:51:13 EDT 2008 | jdengler
Peter, In the interest of full disclosure "vickt" works for UIC. Jerry (not employed by any machine manufacturer).
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 23 17:33:54 EDT 2008 | pima
so what period of times are you loosing for changeover? is it half of hour? more or less? because I think that should also be a useful indicator, how much time does it take to switch to different product if we are using panasonic,universal,fuji,phili
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 23 17:40:33 EDT 2008 | dyoungquist
We are a small OEM that also does EMS for local companies. We run our SMT line 10 hours/day 5 days/week and average 2 changeovers per day. We are using a MyData machine in our line. With the proper mix of magazines and feeders, changeover times ca
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 24 08:32:13 EDT 2008 | stepheniii
Where I am now we have Mydatas. We aren't quite changeing over as fast as we did where they have Panasonics. But there was an OEM with one set of part numbers and here is a contract manufacturer with several part numbers systems. What makes a bigg
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 16 14:18:41 EDT 2008 | pima
Anyway thanks for any input from you Guys. Because at the moment we are trying to connect some products on one SMT platform (some short run about 100-500 boards from one product and changeover )and I just want to listen about ur experience with any k
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 23 12:48:36 EDT 2008 | stepheniii
I worked for a company that did fast change overs with Panasonic machines. We also had dedicated feeders that never came off the machine. But even with over 100 different dedicated parts most set-ups still had 30 or more parts to load. All feeders w
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 16 14:40:17 EDT 2008 | jdengler
Peter, We have 2 Fuji lines. We run from 5 to 5000 piece lots. When we are running near capacity and have a lot of change-overs scheduled we have special operators that will load parts onto feeders and organize the feeders like they will be on the
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