Today, Machine and Process Capability Analysis is essential to fulfill process, quality, and customer requirements. A closer look can examine long-term advantages through regular maintenance and production equipment optimization.

Immediately, the following advantages can be realized:

• Allows equipment to work with more efficiency and throughput capacity

• Develop the idea of defect prevention with proactive approach

• Ensures better communication between various services supporting production

• Proof of importance in continual quality improvement for customers (ISO 9001 and TS 16949)

• Improve knowledge and troubleshooting accuracy throughout production process

• Reduced operator intervention

When machines are set to perform as originally intended, defects are reduced. Optimized printers align stencils and PCBs more accurately, creating fewer off-pad prints. Dispensers dispense dots in the exact intended location and not partially on pads, causing subsequent reflow defects. Placement machines operate more efficiently with reduced tombstoning, less bridging (shorts) as assisted with better printing, and decreased missing or skewed components.