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The PCBA industry's scheduling needs in production
PCBA production processes generally include automatic placement (SMT), plug-in (AI), manual insertion (MI), assembly, testing and other processes. Different products contain different processes and process sequences. Electronic product production has the characteristics of multiple production lines, multiple varieties and small batches, frequent switching, rapid site changes, and unstable material conditions. Production scheduling has always been a difficult point. Without software support, production scheduling is done manually by production management. Neither efficiency nor effectiveness can be guaranteed. Although there are already some automatic scheduling products on the market, most of them are not applicable because the developers are not familiar with the SMT manufacturing process.

The PlanMate APS automatic scheduling system provides a complete solution for the characteristics of the SMT industry, and has been well applied in many large SMT companies. This is because the technicians of Baiqiancheng Electronics have rich experience in the PCBA/SMT industry. In the past 10 years, Baiqiancheng Electronics is the most famous SMT/AI programming optimization software supplier (CodeCAM) in China, so they are very familiar with the SMT industry. The production process and craftsmanship, and have a very good cooperative relationship with many large domestic SMT companies.

In view of the characteristics of the PCBA industry, PlanMate provides a supporting solution, which satisfies the scheduling needs of the PCBA industry well:

1. Scheduling data: Including work orders, requirements, inventory, work order material conditions, etc. PlanMate obtains these data from ERP and preprocesses them according to the needs of different customers.

2. The PCBA industry uses work orders as the production management unit. PlanMate has complete work order tracking management functions for work order scheduling.

3. Two scheduling modes: unlimited capacity scheduling, scheduling results are usually used for MRP. Limited capacity scheduling for actual production line production.
4. The data model is maintained by the user, PlanMate automatically schedules according to the model, and provides convenient model maintenance tools

5. Satisfy the process relationship constraints between multiple processes

6. Resource selection and priority: Different products have optional equipment groups and can define the equipment selection priority in the group. In the case of meeting on-time delivery, select equipment according to priority

7. Meet the constraints of steel mesh and fixtures, and forecast the demand for steel mesh fixtures based on the demand in the next few months

8. Flexible scheduling priority principle, which can be scheduled according to material condition, priority and demand time
9. It can interface with the customer's ShopFloor to obtain the actual production data of the work order and synchronize with the plan, which is used to track the execution status of the plan and to adjust the plan. Companies without ShopFloor system can synchronize their daily production reports.

10. The scheduling results are displayed in Gantt chart, which is convenient for inspection and analysis

11. There are a wealth of manual adjustment functions. After automatic scheduling, the plan can be manually modified, and the operation can be performed in graphics and tables.

12. Quickly plan to modify, and easily realize functions such as temporary order insertion, modification or cancellation of orders.

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