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Cybord and Fuji America Form Strategic Partnership to Deliver Visual AI-Powered Technology to SMT Production Lines Across the Americas
Cybord and Fuji America Corporation have formed a strategic partnership to deliver visual AI-powered technology to SMT production lines across the Americas. The partnership will utilize Cybord’s unique technology to provide unprecedented electronic component quality assurance and traceability to Fuji America’s customers. With electronic component supply chains under stress, the Fuji America-Cybord solution provides real-time inspection of 100% of electronic components during PCBA assembly with 99.9% accuracy, preventing defective or counterfeit parts from being placed on the PCB. This partnership cements Fuji America’s position at the forefront of manufacturing excellence and sets a new industry standard for quality, reliability, and efficiency in the electronics manufacturing industry.
Big Data Analytics in Electronics Manufacturing: is MES the key to unlocking its true potential?
In a modern SMT fab, every time a stencil is loaded or a squeegee makes a pass, data is generated. Every time a nozzle picks and places a component, data is generated. Every time a camera records a component or board inspection image, data is generated. The abundance of data in the electronics industry is a result of the long-existing and widespread process automation and proliferation of sensors, gauges, meters and cameras, which capture process metrics, equipment data and quality data.
In SMT and electronics the main challenge isn’t the availability of data, rather the ability to look at the data generated from the process as a whole, making sense of data pertaining to each shop floor transaction, then being able to use this data to generate information from a single point of truth instead of disparate unconnected point solutions and use the generated insight to make decisions which ultimately improve process KPIs, OEE, productivity, yield, compliance and quality.