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Innovations for and with ERSA soldering machines
Waves with
Saia
®
PCD
Soldering machines for lean production
ERSA GmbH, headquartered inWertheim/Germany, is Europe's largest manufacturer
of soldering machines. In the third year of the cooperation, the third wave soldering
series-production machine has already been fitted with Saia®PCD.
Authors: Patrick Lützel /Rolf Müller
Lean production needs high quality
lean machines
We have now reorganised the bulk of production
towards lean methods and concepts. A number of
new, small soldering machines have been purchased
and put into operation. The time which followed
was equally exciting and instructive, both for our
supplier ERSA and for Saia.
As a «global player» in the electronics industry and
a leader in technology for large machines, ERSA has
realised that its innovation roadmap needs to be
adapted as regards small machines. Our aim is that
the machines for the small production cells are not
simply slimmed down and thus made cheaper, but
that these have the same features and are regarded
as highly as the large high-end machines.
Saia®PCD in ERSA innovations as well
After nearly 3 years with our cooperation, ERSA
has already converted 2 types of series machine to
Saia® PCD: ETS250 and ETS330.
The increase in value achieved is considerable:
Thanks to integrated web and IT standards, up to
100
soldering programs can now be managed and
backed up in Excel, diagnosis and trends visualised
and weekly programs created by the operator him-
self. If desired, this can also be without a HMI on the
machine, but instead via the customer's corporate
network using PCs or mobile devices (iPhone, iPad).
The requirement for flexible, lean production meth-
ods calls for innovative solutions. As part of our re-
organisation of production towards lean methods
and increased efficiency, ERSA has learned what we
expect of small lean machines.
The aim was to move away from batch production
with large batch sizes towards a «one piece flow».
The intention was to create several small production
islands to producefor continually changing types of
devices and modules to be produced.
ERSA headquarters in Wert-
heim/Germany
ETS250
Compact wave soldering machine
with Saia®PCD
ETS330
Compact double wave solde-
ring machine with Saia®PCD2
CPU and Saia 5.7" MB panel
Innovative workflows thanks
to web and IT technology in
production at Saia-Burgess:
Weekly programs are created
and statistical evaluations
visualised using industrially
«
packaged» iPods.
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