Mar 20, 2008 Optimal Electronics presentation, session #S06, will take place on Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 at 3.15 p.m. This paper will be presented by Dr. Ranko Vujosevic, the Founder, President, and CTO of Optimal Electronics. It discusses kitting and how lean thoughts of the past would consider it a waste to be eliminated. A key finding is that eliminating kitting as a waste in electronic assembly may create waste in the area that does much more damage to the company's bottom line assembly line throughput and process quality. The paper describes ways to eliminate waste in different phases of kitting, and illustrates Lean Kitting using a case study conducted in a major contract manufacturer site.
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Optimal Electronics will also exhibit at APEX 2008 in booth 2147, where representatives will be available to discuss and demonstrate the company's products and technologies.
Optimal Electronics Corporation is a global provider of innovative software solutions for the control and optimization of electronics assembly processes. The company's flagship product, Optel™, has been used in production at F500 companies since 1998, delivering a true Lean Manufacturing environment with an incredibly short return on investment (ROI). Optel is the most comprehensive and powerful Manufacturing Execution System (MES) for managing the electronic assembly process. Customers are able to control and optimize the entire manufacturing floor from their desktops, benefiting from increased agility, throughput, and quality while reducing their manufacturing costs. This state-of-the-art system comprises a full suite of modules including production scheduling, grouped setups, machine program optimization, material verification, materials management, and detailed component level traceability, all integrated by a single global database. Optel's ability to control and optimize all aspects of circuit assembly is unmatched by competitors.
