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News Release from: Omron Electronics
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 12 January 2007
Automation allows PCB production to
compete
Omron, supplier of products and services for industrial automation, has scooped an award for a pcb manufacturing plant which achieved the best production improvement project of 2006
Omron, supplier of products and services for industrial automation, has scooped an award for the best improvement project of 2006 The Omron Den Bosch manufacturing facility, 80 kilometres south of Amsterdam, Netherlands, was awarded the title 'World Class Team 2006' by Blom Consultancy, which analysed and judged 27 entries for this award given for the best achievement in improving business processes
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 29 May 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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According to Blom, Omron also achieved 'the impossible' by cutting the changeover time of a screen printing machine from 30 minutes to just 30 seconds for some parts.
As a result, the company is rivalling China for flexibility, quality and production cost.
During the final in Harderwijk, Netherlands, three companies (Wegener, Bruynzeel Keukens and Omron) presented their projects to an audience of several hundred managers.
The field panel and the public chose Omron for this achievement, through which the company is proving that Dutch manufacturing companies can also compete with China.
The project for which Omron scooped the award concerns an improvement in the changeover of a machine in a production process of printed circuit boards.
In Den Bosch, the boards are manufactured on a small scale for Omron clients in industrial automation.
Specialised production in small quantities means that the machines have to be changed over up to 100 times per week.
The time needed for those changes was resulting in sales losses of 11 per cent per week.
Following a shrewd analysis and a set of measures for the various aspects of the changeover process (including adjustments in the preparation, maintenance and signalling), the changeover time for the production line has been cut to between three minutes and just 30 seconds for some parts.
The results also include reductions in man and machine hours and substantial cost savings. Request free introductory details about products from Omron Electronics ...
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