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What are the obstacles faced by the intelligent manufacturing of PCB drilling machines? Why do so many companies hope to realize it by purchasing some new workstations and intelligent production lines, but give up in the end?
1. Enterprises lack PCB drilling machine intelligent manufacturing planners or leaders
The intelligent manufacturing factory of PCB drilling machine needs full production process, full equipment, and full-process of automation. It needs to import MES, WMS, and AGV, and even needs to disrupt the existing process or equipment. The manufacturing process needs to be designed and planned from an internal and external overall supply chain perspective. Some companies lack planners or leaders in intelligent manufacturing.
The IT team, the smart manufacturing equipment team, the process team, and the logistics and warehousing team have not yet been able to collaborate efficiently and in a barrier-free way to reach consensus or achieve disruptive breakthroughs for the new goal of smart manufacturing.
The existing system cannot meet the more and more strict audit requirements of automotive electronics customers or high-end electronics consumption customers, but it is difficult to abandon the old system that has been used for many years and invest in a new generation of manufacturing operation system.
2. Does the old factory area meet the retrofit requirements for intelligent manufacturing of PCB drilling machine?
The design of the old factory area is difficult to be introduced automation due to the limitations of the site, space or the capacity of the machine itself.
It is not easy to evaluate the investment benefits of smart factories, and it is impossible to calculate the ROI as accurately as purchasing equipment.
Integration can be achieved for a single piece of equipment, a single automated production line, and local subsystems. However, there is no ability to integrate production data and process control for the entire plant.
Constrained by the investment and operation status of existing factories, it is difficult to draw up factory intelligent manufacturing or I4.0 development strategies.
3. Difficulty in the machine and equipment networking
The machine lacks a standardized communication interface, and each device must be customized with a special connection driver or configuration, and the cost of networking is high.
The machine program is encrypted, and the device cannot output data. In order to output data, it is needed to pay extra high fees to the machine supplier.
The old equipment does not have data acquisition sensors or the PLC cannot be equipped with networking modules. It is not easy to expand and the machine is of low networking level, which makes the current operation of the factory opaque and cannot realize the traceability of the entire production process.
If there is a demand for intelligent manufacturing retrofit of PCB drilling machines, please consult Kangdao Intelligent, and they will provide feasible and cost-effective solutions according to the actual situation.
