Jun 13, 2017 
Optimal Electronics Corporation, a global provider of innovative software solutions for the electronics assembly industry, announces mobile Smart Factory solutions for electronics assembly. Customers demand mobile solutions, where a mobile device can manage one or more assembly lines, instead of the traditional way of one PC per machine.
Optimal Electronics Founder and CEO Ranko Vujosevic, Ph.D., stated: “Mobile solutions are the heart of the Smart Factory as well as an important step toward the future, which will be automated electronics assembly without operators. Real-time big data collection, mobility and applied robotic solutions are our main focus and our way of introducing our customers to Industry 4.0.”
Optimal Electronics’ mobile solutions include real-time production control, materials management with electronic Kanban, line setup verification, component traceability data collection and reporting. Additionally, the mobile Smart Factory offers real-time machine performance monitoring, component consumption and scrap data collection, and feedback to the ERP system for inventory adjustments to avoid unexpected part shortages.
Optimal Electronics Corporation is a global provider of innovative software solutions for the control and optimization of electronics assembly processes. The company's flagship product, Optel™, has been used in production at F500 companies since 1998, delivering a true Lean Manufacturing environment with an incredibly short return on investment (ROI). Optel is the most comprehensive and powerful Manufacturing Execution System (MES) for managing the electronic assembly process. Customers are able to control and optimize the entire manufacturing floor from their desktops, benefiting from increased agility, throughput, and quality while reducing their manufacturing costs. This state-of-the-art system comprises a full suite of modules including production scheduling, grouped setups, machine program optimization, material verification, materials management, and detailed component level traceability, all integrated by a single global database. Optel's ability to control and optimize all aspects of circuit assembly is unmatched by competitors.
