In recent years, the electronics manufacturing industry is undergoing an unprecedented transformation of automation. With the rapid change of market demand and the continuous progress of technology, manufacturing enterprises have to seek more efficient and flexible production modes to cope with the increasingly fierce market competition. But at the same time, it also brings many challenges and pain points.

Here are the three main pain points that electronics manufacturing generally faces in the process of automation transformation:

190065A-01-01-01-00-00 The first is the customer to enterprise (C2B) manufacturing model of the production line flexibility requirements. The needs of end users make enterprises must respond quickly to market changes and achieve “on-demand production”. Traditional manual operation has been unable to meet the high efficiency requirements of flexible production, enterprises need to carry out a comprehensive automatic transformation of the production line to ensure that the equipment can adapt to various production environments, facilitate the rapid conversion of production line tasks, and can be seamlessly connected with the existing enterprise resource planning (ERP), warehouse management system (WMS).

The second is the particularity of the production environment. Taking the manufacturing of electronic components as an example, the production process has extremely strict requirements for environmental conditions, such as dust, cleanliness, anti-static, etc., to prevent the components from being contaminated and damaged. Before the automated transportation system was put into use, workers needed to wear full protective gear to enter the clean room and manually handle materials and finished products, which was not only inefficient, but also a risk of contamination, and the slightest mistake could cause damage to the product. In addition, due to the complex structure of electronic products, precision components, the impact and collision during the handling process is very sensitive, manual handling errors may lead to product damage, thereby increasing additional costs.

Man-machine collaboration requires a high degree of security. The working environment of the electronics manufacturing industry is complex, personnel flow is intensive, and some sub-sectors have very high requirements for product safety during transportation. This requires that the design and operation of the automation system must ensure a high degree of security of man-machine collaboration. Production equipment and automation systems need to have advanced perception and response capabilities to identify and avoid potential hazards in a timely manner to ensure the safety of workers. At the same time, the automation system also needs to have a high degree of stability and reliability to prevent production interruptions and product damage caused by equipment failures.

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