Lean Manufacturing

In the “hot today, obsolete tomorrow” world of electronics manufacturing, no one wants to get caught with high levels of component inventory for yesterday’s hot product. Add to that strong pressures to produce higher quality at a lower price and businesses have no choice but to strive to achieve Lean Manufacturing – eliminating all waste in manufacturing processes.

• Improve shop floor visibility and control.
• Focus efforts on eliminating waste (time, unnecessary transport of material, unnecessary movement of employees, production of defective products).
• Better management of cycle times.

Success depends on the ability to collect and analyze real-time data. Cogiscan provides companies with the ability to collect and measure real-time data on materials and tools on the shop floor, while assisting in the enforcement and control of lean manufacturing principles.

• Zero wait time.
• Zero inventory.
• Zero Set-up Errors.
• Scheduling -- customer pull in lieu of push system.
• Batch production to Flow production -- cut batch sizes.
• Line balancing.
• Reduced process time.

• Line Set-up Control.
• Inventory Tracking.
• WIP Tracking.
• Traceability.
• MSD Control.