Traceability

Cogiscan Smart Traceability solutions can trace all PCBs, materials, components, and tooling throughout the entire assembly process. It provides a complete history of the product from material release through SMT and final assembly. It saves you time and money by improving recall management and product quality, while helping you address increasing customer requirements for extensive and accurate traceability data. Cogiscan Smart Traceability is the most cost-effective, scalable and error-proof solution on the market.

• Complete product traceability and accountability.
• Combined with Line Set-up Control, to proactively prevent errors.
• Improves recall management – Ability to recall products based on detailed product genealogy.
• Records and gives easy access to a complete "as built" history and trace report for regulatory and customer compliance.
• Allows you to quickly find a part and trace everything that was manufactured with that part :
  • Date and time of production.
  • Assembly line and equipment used.
  • Component part numbers and tools used.
  • Assembly routing.
• Find the source - improve quality by quickly identifying failed components and the supplier who provided the component.
• Improve quality - track processes, resources and materials used during manufacturing process to support continuous improvement goals.

All software applications are available with RFID technology (fully-automatic) and bar code technology (semi-automatic).

Related document(s)

• Traceability (product sheet)
• Traceability Data Integrity (white paper)
• Flash Electronics Case Study
• Jabil Case Study
• SEMECS traceability case study