Siemens PLM Software Electronics Manufacturing Services Using PLM to accelerate and optimize the production process siemens.com/plm
We not only rearranged our manufacturing planning, we also reached better results in regard to effectiveness and efficiency across our facilities. Peter Biersack Department Chief Manufacturing and Testing Planning EWA Amberg Siemens 2
Integrating the real and digital manufacturing worlds Siemens is an industry leader in manufacturing, and our industry sector factory control and automation products are found in plants around the world. These products are being used to control and optimize assembly processes. Siemens PLM Software knows the challenges facing electronics manufacturers, such as the need of Siemens own fully automated electronics assembly plant in Amberg Germany, which builds automation controllers. Managing the original equipment manufacturer (OEM)/ electronics manufacturing services (EMS) relationship includes receiving and analyzing specifications and managing design information and changes, providing accurate and competitive bids with estimates of cost and production times, managing design information and changes, collaborating across the entire life of the product, managing internal and external production factors, and in the case of an original design manufacturer (ODM) supplier, delivering a robust design environment that can map customer requirements and specifications to a successful product design. Siemens PLM Software provides product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions that enable EMS companies to effectively collaborate with OEM customers, and optimize the manufacturing of increasingly complex products. The real manufacturing world is converging with the digital manufacturing world to enable organizations to digitally plan and project the entire lifecycle of products and production facilities. What has made the Amberg plant so successful is the integration of three specific critical manufacturing technologies: Product lifecycle management; manufacturing execution systems, and industrial automation. Helmuth Ludwig CEO Siemens Industry Sector North America 3
Improving the manufacturing of increasingly complicated products Pressures in the EMS Industry Continuous cost pressures Operational excellence (including supply chain management, manufacturing) High flexibility Global support of customers Knowledge of needs in different industries Markus Aschenbrenner CEO Zollner, USA Production ramp up time, pricing pressures, customer changes, technology changes, global markets and supply chains are some of the top issues facing electronics manufacturing services providers today. Whether your OEM customer is a consumer or an industrial electronics company, or your company provides full design and logistical services as an ODM, product lifecycles continue to shrink, which means bringing increasingly complex products to global markets entails more effort and risk than ever before. How do you address these pressures? How do you manage product content and collaborate with all stakeholders to reduce the risk, time and cost, while improving quality and aligning products to meet customer demands? Planning, designing, manufacturing and servicing products must be managed in unison to provide products that not only work, but also meet customer needs, hit price points and align with regulatory requirements. Zollner Group implemented Siemens PLM Software digital manufacturing solutions, resulting in: Consolidation of 2 plants into 1 in one month Significantly more effective process planning Reduced cycle time, work-in-progress and stock Substantially shorter project turnaround time More consistent on-time delivery Winning new business 4
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Leveraging HD-PLM to improve the product development and production processes The Siemens PLM Software integrated information environment helps you manage and capitalize on your intellectual property. Siemens PLM Software revolutionizes the way EMS companies develop and manufacture products through smarter decision-making. It starts with a collaborative decision support platform that aligns work streams to accelerate development and empower decision making. We call it high definition product lifecycle management, or HD-PLM. HD-PLM is achieved by harnessing the complexity of information and processes in product development and manufacturing, and then presenting that information in an active, intuitive, in-context manner that enhances the user experience and supports smart decisions, anywhere and anytime. You can reduce the time it takes to make decisions, and improve the quality of those decisions. 6
Our solutions capture requirements from all your sources: business and voice-of-the-customer, as well as environmental and regulatory sources, driving product efforts from OEM design integration and change management to validation, manufacture and support, confirming all stakeholders are aiming at the same target. But success requires more. Time-tomarket, quality, sustainability, supply chain collaboration and complexity all weigh on your efforts. The Siemens PLM Software integrated information environment helps you manage and capitalize on your intellectual property (IP) by enabling strategic re-use of design and production IP and components. By providing information where it s needed, in a form that facilitates smart decisions, you can reduce the time it takes to make decisions, and improve the quality of those decisions. Additionally, making processes accessible to all relevant parties facilitates collaboration and the understanding of all contributors, thus reducing the time and costs of the product production lifecycle, shortening time-to-market and enhancing quality. Requirements-driven processes, integrated information and collaboration contribute to building the right product and building the product right. You can get there with a future-proof, scalable architecture that delivers an HD user experience, protects your investment and maximizes the benefit. 7
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Providing the full production picture EMS providers must optimize electronics manufacturing productivity to meet the demands of global OEM customers, requiring high flexibility and agility. EMS companies must manage operational complexity, have a global support footprint, and address constant pressure to drive costs down, while continuously promoting operational excellence. Siemens PLM Software provides electronics manufacturers with the capabilities to create an optimized production environment to meet the increasingly complex product needs of their OEM customers. EMS leaders must utilize production resources efficiently to support the needs of multiple customers and products, be responsive to changes in the marketplace and compliant with a variety of global regulations and directives that can mean the difference between a product being a success or failure. Siemens PLM Software also provides a single source of truth to manage design information for multiple products across all of your OEM customers, and the mapping of that information to the production information within your plants. Supplier information is also managed to ensure components adhere to all OEM customer requirements and specifications, while allowing you to optimize vendor components across products and customers. Siemens manufacturing execution systems (MES) software for electronics ties it all together, according to Gerry Bellehumeur, director of quality for embedded systems at Curtiss-Wright Controls. This software issues and tracks work orders, but also goes the extra step of including the information needed for manufacturing (design files, drawings and bills of material), which can be used to access from the other applications. This Siemens solution delivers information electronically to manufacturing engineers and shop floor personnel, eliminating the labor that used to be required to obtain and distribute paper documents. This approach also saves paper. Since the group started using the Siemens solution, the shop floor has become 99 percent paperless. More importantly, production always gets accurate and up-to-date information, preventing costly mistakes and rework. Siemens PLM Software provides the full picture. Siemens PLM software ties it all together. 9
Managing product complexity and facilitating flexible manufacturing Designing and validating the new product introduction (NPI) process offline allows full use of manufacturing resources... Siemens PLM Software has been helping customers increase the speed of their production processes by integrating the physical environments of production, automation and manufacturing. Through this integration, customers have been able to turn what were once serial tasks into a concurrent approach. Through the concurrency of these processes, customers are able to realize reductions in time-to-market. Short product lifecycles, seasonal demand fluctuations, intense competition and increased end user customization allow little time for developing optimal manufacturing processes. This complexity is further compounded by the fact that EMS providers need to cope with multiple live products at any given time. Designing and validating the new product introduction (NPI) process offline allows full use of manufacturing resources, whether for high-mix or high-volume scenarios, resulting in maximum uptime and achieving highest throughput from time of production launch. The process is inherently flexible as users are able to select specific lines or manufacturing sites based on simulation results in the process plan. This flexibility also enables EMS providers to cope with severe volatility in the form of fluctuations in job orders, sudden schedule changes and increased production mix. Whether you operate as a pure EMS or an end-to-end ODM provider, Siemens PLM Software offers a fully unified suite of solutions to improve the efficiency and profitability of your organization, and can facilitate the effective collaboration between you and your customers. 10
Siemens PLM Software offers a fully unified suite of solutions to improve the efficiency and profitability of your organization... 11
Optimizing electronics manufacturing processes Siemens PLM Software provides capabilities to enhance NPI within the EMS industry in five key areas, including: End-to-end integrated printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing planning, validation, visualization, documentation, assembly and test. This capability reduces NPI ramp up time and improves the utilization of your existing mix of equipment A complete suite of mold and die lifecycle tools and integrated product and tooling cost estimation tools, which will allow you to optimize material use, accelerate production startup, plan effective cost reductions and provide faster response to OEM request for proposals (RFPs) Manufacturing quality management with built-in support for corrective and protective actions (CAPA), variation stack analysis (VSA), dimensional planning and validation (DPV) and coordinate measuring machine (CMM) processes. Quality management reduces product defects, lowers scrapping costs, requires fewer late engineering changes and provides more targeted control of tolerances Integrated plant and manufacturing product planning and validation/simulation, including the management of bills of material (BOM), bills of process (BOP), changes, and resources to improve equipment utilization, reduce stock inventory and improve plant space utilization A collaborative environment to effectively manage the communications between your company, your OEM customers, and your supply chain partners to ensure everyone stays in sync with requirements, specifications, design and manufacturing BOMs, change orders and product variants 12
This capability reduces NPI ramp up time and improves the utilization of your existing mix of equipment. 13
Delivering a top PLM solution for the EMS industry You have the flexibility to integrate what you have today and add additional technology innovation tomorrow. Analyst firm IDC has ranked Siemens PLM Software as the market leader for 10 consecutive years in product lifecycle management. Siemens PLM Software delivers on its vision with a comprehensive portfolio and unwavering customer commitment that has earned it strategic positions in EMS companies around the globe. Success for our customers is achieved through our open, scalable, secure and future-proof architecture that assures your investment will pay off today as well as in the tomorrow. Our solutions allow you to implement solutions that you need immediately, and then provides you with the means to continue to grow your product development environment as you incorporate more processes and disciplines. You have the flexibility to integrate what you have today and add additional technology innovation tomorrow. 14
We achieved an exceptionally accurate realization of the continuous flow production, one-piece flow concept and optimized material link. The direct result of that achievement was a significant reduction in cycle time, work-in-progress and stocks. We realized the objective of our lean management approach avoiding as much waste as possible. Alois Mahr Manager Digital Planning Zollner 15
About Siemens PLM Software Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Digital Factory Division, is a world-leading provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software, systems and services with nine million licensed seats and 77,000 customers worldwide. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Siemens PLM Software helps thousands of companies make great products by optimizing their lifecycle processes, from planning and development through manufacturing and support. Our HD-PLM vision is to give everyone involved in making a product the information they need, when they need it, to make the smartest decisions. For more information on Siemens PLM Software products and services, visit www.siemens.com/plm. Headquarters Granite Park One 5800 Granite Parkway Suite 600 Plano, TX 75024 USA +1 972 987 3000 Americas Granite Park One 5800 Granite Parkway Suite 600 Plano, TX 75024 USA +1 314 264 8499 Europe Stephenson House Sir William Siemens Square Frimley, Camberley Surrey, GU16 8QD +44 (0) 1276 413200 Asia-Pacific Suites 4301-4302, 43/F AIA Kowloon Tower, Landmark East 100 How Ming Street Kwun Tong, Kowloon Hong Kong +852 2230 3308 2014 Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc. Siemens and the Siemens logo are registered trademarks of Siemens AG. D-Cubed, Femap, Fibersim, Geolus, GO PLM, I-deas, JT, NX, Parasolid, Solid Edge, Syncrofit, Teamcenter and Tecnomatix are trademarks or registered trademarks of Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and in other countries. All other logos, trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks belong to their respective holders. 36469-X15 11/14 B