In the surface mount technology (SMT) industry many equipment makers have been focused on what to do with data, how to collect and share it, and how to process it to produce better machine and line performance. Whilst this is important, it is also essential that those equipment makers continue to develop their machines and technology to produce better data. That might be better 3D optical images, better thermal profiles, better measurements, better x-ray images. What is clear is that it is only the combination of domain expertise with data manipulation that drives those line and factory improvements.
Another universal truth in the SMT industry is that connectivity needs to go well beyond machine. Companies that connect and collaborate are enjoying unprecedented success and driving the most additional value for their customers. At the recent IPC APEX 2019 Expo, a Saki inspection machine was present on the Fuji booth. This is one such example and a testament to the collaboration between companies. Tom Zabkiewicz, executive vice president at Fuji America and Alex Malek, vice president, sales and service at Saki America Inc., joined me to explore the collaboration and to discuss the value it adds to both companies and to their mutual customers.
The panelists also explore what a more data-centric approach could offer U.S. manufacturing in terms of competitiveness.
Filmed on location in San Diego at the SCOOP studio thanks to the sponsorship of Aegis Software, Cogiscan, Creative Electron, Fuji America, KIC and Koh Young Technology.
Philip Stoten enjoys sharing his views on what's new or disruptive in the industry he has spent a career of more than thirty years working in. First and foremost, Stoten likes to write, but he is happy moderating a workshop or interviewing an executive on video. Since Stoten was young, he wanted to be a journalist, but an aptitude for science, the technology boom in Cambridge and his weak performance in English at school, led him into manufacturing, where he worked in design, manufacturing, management and sales and marketing. "You can do anything you want", was the inspiring advice given to Stoten by his entrepreneurial father Paul, an approach that led Philip to start his own design company in Cambridge in his twenties. An approach that led him to switch from technology to journalism in his thirties, publishing his first magazine, going onto launch two others and a communications company. Stoten founded Scoop to help companies in the electronics manufacturing industry plan, produce, deploy and measure content, supporting their brand and their lead generation strategy. He is at his happiest working with clients, exploring their products and markets, and helping create solutions to show their thought leadership and bring their customers to their products. If Stoten weren't working in the electronics manufacturing space, he'd like to be writing about travel or food, two of his greatest passions. He enjoys the travel opportunities his role allows him and the chance to visit some of the world's best restaurants. Of course, he takes his running shoes with him, keen to keep in shape as despite the good food, he likes to fit running the occasional marathon.
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