CIMSEE has provided expertise to the Electronics Industry for 25 years. Projects range from simple production analysis of the assenbly of printed circuit boards to project management of new manufacturing plants around the world. If you have production in the assembly of printed circuit boards,final assembly, automated assembly, test and would like to have production lines analyzed fo their best through-put or assembly techniques, call us. When ready to expand production, the selection of new equipment can be a daunting task. CIMSEE has the expertise to analyze your production requirements and be able to translate those new products, quantities into new automated assembly equipment. The next step would be selecting the appropriate assembly equipment and vendor. Making sure the selection leads to flexibility and Lean Manufacturing techniques.

Once printed circuit boards have been inspected by vision inspection, de-paneled and through functional test, they generally are placed into a case of some sort with additional mechanical components. Manual assembly would usually provide the method to manufacture the final assembly portion of the product. China and the Asian rim provide some financial relief in this function. Some times quality is an issue with manual assembly,or technology of the components make it difficult to use manual assembly. Automation of final assemblymay be required to be competitive and to provide a quality product CIMSEE can guide your manufacuring engineering team through the process of developing the necessary automation and process to achieve a reliable, repeatable assembly line. Components become a major element in final assembly, providing the availability to snap plastic parts together with leadin edges. It becomes extremely important to evaluate all of the elements to make automated assembly successful, otherwise robbotics will look impressive, but do not function well.

Improvements in business systems like SAP, Oracle ect, has started to include routines for automated order entry or portals for the distributors to provide delivery of components, based on demand. Consumption data for reorder points need to be supplied to the ERP system. Part of the consideration in the selection of the manufacturing system is to automatically collect information on the usage of components and provide a means to pass that information to the ERP automated order system.

The Automotive Industry was the first industry to require full traceability for all of the components going into the automobile for potential recall purposes. The Medical Industryis another industry leading in this requirement. Presently, more and more industries are requiring accountability for their products and their production lines need to provide traceability for all of the components going into the assembly. Traceability of the assembly of printed circuit boards can be at the level of keeping track of components going on a panel or down to the level of components being placed on each circuit. CIMSEE can help guide you through these requirements and the technology required for implimentation. Boards may require bar code labels of code 39, 128 matrix or RFI technology.

Military and Home Land Security increased their requirements for field radios, field computers, sensors, and electronics in general. CIMSEE can provide audit services to those OEM and sub-contractors for best manufacturing techniques. Providing the military review of manufactures production for contractual obligations and quality. RFI technology for the military and material logistics has become a major importance. Working with the government on the implementation of this technoloy and assuring the vendors are properly supplying the appropriate information format and RFI technology.

World Governments are constantly reviewing their resources to improve their economies. CIMSEE can work with various governments around the world to improve their electronic industries or evaluate their capabilities to get into their own electronic industry. The electronic industry can create extensive employment if the government provides the incentives and attitudes. South Africa, Egypt, Tunisa, Vietnam are good examples. Countries like Mexico, China, Scotland and Ireland who have established good electronic manufacturing capabilities are alwaus looking for ways to improve.