Process Optimization with
SIPLACE Performance Services

Many electronics manufacturing plants have lots of room for additional productivity improvements. As part of our Performance Services, SIPLACE manufacturing experts can optimize organizational structures, processes and tools. This kind of “fine-tuning” benefits from SIPLACE’s long-term experience in the SMT field and from many methods and best practices in other industries as well.

SIPLACE Performance Services increasingly focus on improvements that go far beyond individual lines. Examples include logistics, material flows and special processes such as setup changeovers, new product introductions or just-in-time logistics. In short, SIPLACE Performance Services take a comprehensive view when it comes to fine-tuning your electronics production.

In addition to its experience from SMT production sites all over the world, the SIPLACE team takes advantage of production and supply chain concepts from many other industries. Be it value stream mapping in the production, key performance indicators in planning and monitoring, ABC analyses for inventory management or kanban concepts for the flow of materials – instead of focusing on individual products or the immediate SMT line environment, SIPLACE experts analyze the entire manufacturing organization down to the last detail.

The project results are impressive. In individual projects, the SIPLACE experts were able to improve the placement performance and line utilization by 100 and 80 percent respectively. The average productivity improvement is eight percent, and more than 80 percent of all projects pay for themselves within less than 18 months.