Issue link: https://iconnect007.uberflip.com/i/1098973
58 SMT007 MAGAZINE I APRIL 2019 Reiselt: Absolutely, because I live on the manu- facturing floor? I also have the same responsi- bilities as the rest of the management team, but by the time you push it all the way up and put it in reports, it's not in real time; it's all past tense. Therefore, the only thing that you can do is try and predict how that's going to happen again and put measures in place to keep it from happening. Those are all great things and things that need to be done, but what you missed out on was that whole shift where you were building 2,000 boards, for instance, and you sent 200 to repair because of this problem. When you come back to the most simplistic approach, which is what Heatwave does, that takes you right back to the beginning, and instead of sending 200 to repair, maybe you only sent 83. What's the cost of 117 boards that don't go to repair? Think about it; that involves $15 an hour for an associate here in the U.S. at a minimum. If they have an MES or anything else, you have several minutes just to scan a board, document it, and look it over. Multiply that by 117, and that's what you saved in one shift. Johnson: That can be huge. Reiselt: It doesn't take long to get the payback. Johnson: I don't know whether you heard at the show at all, but automotive is generating a lot of discussion about how manufacturing reliability needs to increase dramatically. The automotive segment says that they need a field failure rate that's about two orders of magni- tude less than the current field failure rates for cellphones. How do you see your solution affecting that? Reiselt: Well, we can play in that from early detection and to trying to eliminate escapes because we're giving that data to the produc- tion floor immediately. If you put a 60-inch monitor out on the floor and have Heatwave up on it, every person down to the person sweep- ing the floor can see it; they could see when it changes and when there's a new defect, so communication is key right down to the lowest level. And with the failures, I think it's going to take collaboration between the manufactur- Flexline from Octane Open Solutions integrates work instructions and real-time labor resource-leveling capabilities. Here, you can see assembly instructions.