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Dealing with the Top Five Factory Floor Productivity Killers in the PCB Industry

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Dealing with the Top Five Factory Floor Productivity Killers in the PCB Industry

The worldwide electronics industry has sales of $750 billion, two thirds of which is accounted for by PCB assembly. PCB manufacturing is characterised by an obsessive drive for increased productivity in the context of three significant industry drivers:

Shorter product lifecycles � The pressure is on to develop better products and bring them to market before the competition does, at lower cost, while simultaneously developing the next generation product. Only five years ago, product lifecycles were measured in years; now they are measured in months, putting pressure on designers and manufacturers to accelerate the process of moving from prototype stage to high-volume manufacture...

Credit / Source: Dr. Henry Jurgens Valor Computerized Systems

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