» PCB & ASSEMBLY
» 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 32 EPP Europe » 11 | 2023
Electronics production process Source: Siemens Changing perceptions The notion of manufacturing as a gritty working environment is an image that needs to be updated. By increasing their focus on digitalization, manufacturers can change these outdated perceptions, and win new recruits. Digitalization can streamline engineering and production processes to create a lean, modern, and productive working environment. These changes elevate quality of life for the workforce and enable companies to be more competitive. With digitalization underway, you are ready to recruit a more talented workforce. And with an improved workforce, company performance can reach a whole new level. Productronica, Booth A3.147 siemens.com/software Zusammenfassung Um den Herausforderungen des herrschenden Fachkräftemangels in der Elektronikbranche zu begegnen ist es von Vorteil, die Digitalisierung bei der Rekrutierung der Arbeitskräfte der Zukunft zu nutzen. Résumé À l’avenir, la numérisation est un outil de recrutement avantageux pour contrer la pénurie de main-d’œuvre qualifiée qui sévit dans le secteur de l’électronique. Резюме Чтобы решить насущные проблемы с дефицитом квалифицированных кадров в электронной отрасли, предпочтительно использовать дигитализацию при наборе рабочей силы будущего. EPP Europe » 11 | 2023 33
