Electronics Manufacturing

Electronics Manufacturing Excellence

As anyone in the industry can attest, electronics manufacturing is unique in many ways. Perhaps the most unique priority of electronics is the process of quickly getting new products to market. The industry is extremely consumer focused and has some of the shortest product life cycles, often six months or less with a tremendous amount of product variation. To successfully deliver products to the market, electronic manufacturing companies need to ensure they are streamlining operations, managing customer and product lifecycles, and optimizing inventory levels.

With the right systems and partner in place, your organization could manage processes and departments in real-time, with up-to-date insights and clear visibility into production schedules, demand forecasts, inventory levels, and supply chain operations. This information will give your electronics manufacturing operations the ability to respond to market conditions quicker and anticipate consumer demands.

Fixed Interval Scheduling

If you’re in the manufacturing industry, you know that manufacturers get hundreds of orders a day. Some organizations receive highly unique and complex custom orders. Fixed Interval Scheduling acts as a gateway to scheduling those custom orders. The solution evaluates the high priority orders first and determines if there is the capacity, materials, assembly line, and machines to build it. Fixed Interval Scheduling selects and schedules only the orders that can be built, finished, and shipped now, so there are no partially complete products sitting on the shop floor. We have implemented this solution at Dell, and they now know what materials are always available for their scheduled orders and there won’t be any work-in-progress products on their floor.