An electronics industrialisation department (MPI)
This triad of industrial services, Methods, Processes and Industrialisation, upstream of your production, is essential to guaranteeing excellence in quality, cost control and accelerating the time-to-market of your products.
To guarantee the operational excellence required for high-reliability markets, these production preparation phases should ideally be carried out in co-development with our customers’ design offices.
Our teams’ expertise covers all aspects of electronics industrialisation: DFX (design for excellence), DFC (design to cost), DFP (design for procurement and purchasing), DFM (design for manufacturing), DFT (design for test), DFA (design for assembly), etc.
Description
The MPI service has the following objectives:
- Reduce design time:
- Encourage the use of validated and qualified solutions
- Minimise introduction costs
- Find the right match between design and production resources
- Promote standard technologies
- Take into account the range of components already used on products
- Prepare industrial tools and tooling
- Minimise manufacturing costs
- Optimise total costs (components and labour)
- Recommend and adapt special processes to customer requirements
- Make the product more reliable
- Recommend components adapted to manufacturing processes
- Propose the test strategy best suited to the customer’s needs
TRONICO's global offer
Benefits
A tried and tested method
- Involvement of manufacturing during the design phase
- Involvement in the choice of technologies
- Analysis of preliminary bills of materials
- Purchasing FMECA: analysis of failure modes, their effects and criticality
- Product FMECA
- Test plans if necessary, for example to validate a new technology
- Consideration of manufacturing constraints from the prototype phase onwards
Dedicated resources and means
- The Valor© suite parameterised and enhanced by TRONICO’s 50 years of experience in the aeronautics, oil, medical and space markets.
- Industrialisation guide capitalised throughout TRONICO’s experience
- Altium Designer / FabmasterVisualisation of
- CAD data: external layers/internal layers
- Measurements: insulation and spacing
- Visualisation of equipotential bonding
- Gc previewVisualisation of
- GERBER data
- Check
- listImproved
- paper
form
- for each new manufacturing problem
- 3D printer
- : product modelling and tooling for the prototype phase
An analysis of manufacturability – Design for Manufacturing (DfM)
This analysis is carried out jointly by the design office and manufacturing to find the best viable compromise, thereby guaranteeing :
- Manufacturability
- Technical objectives of the product
- Compliance with best practice and standards
- Costs
- Manufacturing lead times
in order to produce under the best possible conditions.
At TRONICO, this analysis is carried out by a multidisciplinary team:
- PCB: experienced routers from the Research and Development department
- PCB-A: the industrialisation department, with its experts in manufacturing processes and 35 years’ experience in manufacturing complex electronic boards for the aerospace, defence, oil and medical industries…
More than 300 verification points are listed to guarantee a board’s manufacturability. Analysis reports are delivered to our customers, listing all the points analysed, along with comments and suggestions.
Resources
Human capital
- 25 specialist engineers and technicians, trained to handle your industrialisation projects, from start-ups to large industrial companies operating in demanding, high-tech markets.
Equipment
- ALTIUM DESIGNER software
- VALOR software
Standards
- IPC-A-610: Acceptability of electronic assemblies
- IPC-2221: Generic Printed Circuit Board Design Standard
- IPC-A-6012: Specification for the Qualification and Performance of Rigid Printed Circuit Boards
- IPC-A-600 : Acceptability of Printed Circuits (Bare PCB)