Improvement of Assembly Line of Printed Circuit Boards for Process Improvement PDF Download

Author: Kamal Aldeen Wail Salman Alzameli
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Category : Continuous improvement process
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Book Description
The improvement process for a printed circuit board assembly line includes hard and soft improvement. The hard improvement includes changing the manually placed component benches and making them more productive. In addition, the soft improvement is established via simulation of the current assembly line and analysis. Continuous improvement of an assembly line should not stop at a specific research point, even if that research contains very detailed sectors of one assembly line or starting from customer order until the product delivery. Therefore, continuous improvement needs to be vigorous for continuous productivity, improvement, and innovation. The aim of my research in this field is to determine the bottlenecks, find a solution, and develop an improvement method via changing the configuration of the setup on the assembly line until a feasible, optimal configuration is achieved. The software used for this kind of simulation is Arena software. Moreover, perform design of experiment (DOE) for an oven study and find out which variables are more significant to achieve good thermal profile improvement. Minitab software is used for DOE. The bottleneck solution will be determined after obtaining the results from simulation. Validation is determined using the Hypothesis test, which is used to compare the analyzed value with other values and choose the best one among them. The data for the research was collected from a working assembly line. The best engineering assumption for the area is used for no permanent data that could be availalbe like design phase prior to the assembly line, or the data ... collected from the manual stations. In the end, the aim of the research is to achieve a better yield via minimizing the time of PCB assembly process. Hence, the outcome for all of these attempts of improving the PCB assembly line for process improvement is to deliver good quality products, reduce cost, minimize the time to delivery, and meet customer expectations. In order to maintain its market share with other competitors, an electronics manufacturing company needs to continue to improve its manufacturing process to achieve high-quality products with less cost.