EPP Europe P2.2023

» PCB & ASSEMBLY
Ensuring consistency
and traceability of
product and process
for all manufacturing
strategies
Source: Siemens
Top tips
Keep the following in mind when designing your
recruitment strategy for a revitalized workforce:
• Digitalization is attractive to skilled workers and younger
talent
• Streamlined engineering and manufacturing processes
make your workplace and your job opportunities more
appealing
• Seamless data flow from engineering to execution
increases productivity and reduces stress
• Using digitalization supports a diversity of tasks,
minimizes monotonous work, and allows easy job rotation
using guided and automated operations
• Leveraging digitalization helps create a more productive
and profitable company that can offer employees more
advancement opportunities
• Digitalization enables opportunities for automation
and artificial intelligence (AI) to create a working
environment that supports advanced skills
• Adopting digitalization enables recruitment of a more
talented workforce with the ability to improve company
performance
• Remote work options enable you to tap new pools of talent
When recruiting today, it is important to develop an
appealing image. Talented workers are drawn to clean
workplaces that offer career advancement in high
tech fields, so we should design our workplaces and
our recruiting strategies to promote these benefits.
Siemens digitalization solutions
Digital solutions such as a manufacturing execution
system (MES) can play a critical role in addressing
labour challenges. Digitalization can increase
your appeal as a company by providing stress-relieving
solutions for workers in the fields of both IT and
production.
Problems with integrating IT and operating technology
(OT) often lead to extra work and undue
stress on the workforce. This is exacerbated when
multiple legacy information systems are unconnected,
lack a common data platform or language,
and cannot work together, resulting in an enormous
workload. Fragmented systems need to be digitally
transformed so they work more efficiently together,
and the effort needed to sustain them is reduced.
Fortunately, this fragmentation and the stress can be
alleviated by adopting an end-to-end digital solution
that provides a single digital thread with connected
systems. This enables efficient, unified operation
from product design to manufacturing execution.
The Siemens Xcelerator business platform, comprising
software, hardware and services, provides an
integrated digital thread spanning from design to
production engineering, streamlining processes
through one end-to-end digital solution. The MES
solution also includes a manufacturing operations
management (MOM) system to address labour-related
challenges. When we start breaking down disconnected
silos this transformation can begin.
The MOM system combines all machine programming
into a single platform, and better defines workflows,
resulting in better quality, and saving time and
stress for workers. It consolidates production processes
to optimise MESs, quality management, and
improve planning and scheduling. It also reduces the
workload so staff can focus instead on value-added
tasks. MOM advantages include:
• Providing guidance in setup and execution tasks
• Prompting workers for required actions
• Avoiding errors and rework
• Supplying automated control and traceability of
tasks, process, material and tools
• Using maintenance management to minimize machine
breakdowns
• Improving operator efficiency by allowing them to
run multiple machines and lines
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