Improve Materials Management with Intelligent JIT material flow for SMT lines
On-demand Web Seminar
There are currently no dates scheduled for this event. However a recording of a previous session is available as an on-demand web seminar.
View This On-Demand Web Seminar NowOverview
Conflicting priorities within an organization often leads to bad habits being formed which become hard to break; there is an easy justification for what is being done. “Breaking the habit” is often required however in order to realize a significant next-step of improvement. It is essential that as part of any successful improvement plan, the original needs from all of the different perspectives are addressed.
Such a case is the supply and management of materials in the SMT area. The key need of manufacturing is to keep the machines running “at all costs”. It is these “costs” that become the bad habits. Typically, inventories run higher and higher on the shop-floor and in the warehouse to ensure that there are always materials to hand when required. The cost of this in terms of investment, space, handling, quality, inventory inaccuracy, waste and lost flexibility are huge and often hidden, being regarded as a part of the necessary infrastructure.
Intelligent Just In Time (JIT) material flow is said to address these issues head-on, but how make this work in practice given the complexities of SMT manufacturing; how to address all of the conflicting needs form the different perspectives?
What You Will Learn
An understanding of different needs and perspectives of material management, to recognize the bad habits, learn how JIT can address these needs and see the real benefits that are just waiting to happen.
About the Presenter
Michael Ford
Senior Marketing Development Manager, Valor Division, Mentor Graphics
Michael started his career as one of the earliest adopters of computer systems for electronics manufacturing, working for Sony initially as a system development engineer, going on to manage Sony’s corporate global Lean Manufacturing MES project, “TiMMS”, in Japan.
With over 25 years’ experience, Michael continuously drives the vision to bring unique exciting “real-world” solutions that deliver extra-ordinary value into the market. Michael is currently responsible for the Marketing Development group focussing on the realisation of the vision as direct benefit opportunities to customers including efficiency, agility, “Lean” and the environment, culminating in the Valor MSS product suite.
Who Should Attend
- Professional buyers
- Shop floor managers
- Production managers
- Materials managers
- Quality managers
- Process engineers
Products Covered
Web Series: Manufacturing Systems Solutions
This web seminar is part of a 4 part series. See below for a complete web seminar series listing.
- On-demand Web Seminar: Smarter Materials Purchasing based on Visibility to the Shop Floor
- On-demand Web Seminar: Improve Materials Management with Intelligent JIT material flow for SMT lines
- On-demand Web Seminar: Improved Manufacturing Performance with Real-time Shop Floor Analytics
- On-demand Web Seminar: Optimizing Shop Floor Build Schedules
Technical Requirements
What do I need to watch and hear this web seminar?
Mentor Graphics’ web seminars are delivered using Adobe Connect. To watch the seminar all you need to have installed is the Adobe Flash Player, version 8 or later on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris. The Flash Player is already installed on over 98% of internet connected computers worldwide so you will not have to install any software prior to attending the meeting. You will be able to login to the seminar room 15 minutes prior to the start time on the day of the presentation. You can hear the audio using your computer’s speakers via VoIP (Voice over IP) and background music will play prior to the beginning of the presentation.
Detailed system requirements
Microsoft® Windows Vista® Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, Business, or Enterprise (32-bit edition)
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or later
- Mozilla Firefox 2
- Adobe Flash® Player 8 or later
Microsoft Windows® XP Professional or Home Edition with Service Pack 2
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7
- Mozilla Firefox 1.x, 2.x
- Mozilla 1.x or later
- Netscape 7.x
- Adobe Flash Player 8 or later
Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x
- Mozilla Firefox 1.x, 2.x
- Mozilla 1.x
- Netscape 8
- Adobe Flash Player 8 or later
Windows hardware requirements
- Intel® Pentium® II 450MHz or faster processor or equivalent (1GHz recommended when screen sharing)
- 128MB of RAM
Mac OS X v10.4, 10.5 (Intel)
- Firefox 1.5.0.3, 2.x
- Safari 2.x
- Adobe Flash Player 8 or later
Mac OS X v10.4 (PowerPC®)
- Safari 1.x, 2.x
- Firefox 1.x
- Mozilla 1.x
- Netscape 7.x or later
- Adobe Flash Player 8 or later
Mac OS hardware requirements
- PowerPC G3 500MHz or faster or Intel Core™ Duo 1.83GHz or faster processor
- 128MB of RAM
Linux:
- Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® (REHL) 3 update 8; RHEL 4 update 4 (AS/ES/WS); Novell SUSE® 9.x or 10.1
- Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.7, 2.x
- Mozilla 1.7.x
- SeaMonkey 1.0.5
- Processor: Modern processor 800MHz or faster (1GHz recommended)
- Memory: 512MB of RAM; 128MB of graphics memory
- Adobe Flash Player 9 or later
Solaris™
- Mozilla 1.7
- Adobe Flash Player 9 or later
Additional requirements
- Minimum bandwidth 56Kbps
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