Electronic Manufacturing Process Control or SPC for Electronics Manufacture

A PRACTICAL WORKSHOP ON ELECTRONIC MANUFACTURING PROCESS CONTROL

This two day workshop on `Electronic Manufacturing Process Control' will cover in great detail the heart of modern manufacturing philosophy. Inspection and rework are costly practices that manufacturing firms in the '90s can well do without. Joe Keller, the former Quality Manager of Motorola's Fort Lauderdale Plant in the USA for over thirty years says "Get your processes under control and forget about inspection".

WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND?

Do you know if all the processes in your factory are in control - now, for the last two hours, for the last shift, for the last week?
Can you guarantee the product being produced by your processes?
What variables are best to measure? Why? How? What with? And what will you do with the information?
When you make changes to a process, how can you be sure that you are getting an improved result?
This programme analyses the major electronic manufacturing processes and identifies the critical variables and statistical techniques that need to be used to answer these questions.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Factory managers, department managers, project leaders, the Quality Department, supervisors and operators who wish to learn how to control their process and other processes in the factory.

COURSE OUTLINE

The course will cover the following processes:-
Incoming PCB's, Leaded component insertion, DIP insertion, Wave soldering, Solder paste printing, Glue application and cure for SMDs, SMD placement, Reflow, Sub-assemblies, Completed product.

The following areas will be covered for each process:-

Overview of process.
What are the variables involved in the process?
The effect of variation of the variables on the output of the process.
Selection of the best variables to measure to control the process.
Selection of the best Statistical Process Control (SPC) method to analyse the measurements.
Pitfalls in the use of SPC for the process.
Working through a typical example for the process.
Computer software that is available to assist with analysis.

Course Duration & Presentation

2 days. Lecture notes, video and demonstrations with approx 3 hours spent on computers with SPC packages.

COURSE DESIGNERS AND PRESENTERS

Patrick Chan was the Plant Engineer for one third of the Ericsson Broadmeadows Factory. Prior to this he worked for the Singapore Productivity Council assisting firms in the electronics area to set up manufacturing facilities, especially in Surface Mount Technology.

Vianney Shiel, Managing Director, Airtronic Circuits and former Principal Lecturer in Manufacturing Technology at the Australian Electronics Development Centre (AEDC), brings to the course his experiences in the SPC area from visiting 30 manufacturing installations in Japan, Europe and the United States.