Streamlining Electronics Manufacturing through Smart AI Solutions
Electronics manufacturing demands accuracy, especially with intricate components like resistors and microchips. Our AI solutions empower electronics manufacturers to ensure quality, streamline production, and adapt to evolving industry demands — all without disrupting workflows.
Electronics manufacturers often face challenges due to the complexity of modern circuits and devices.
Are these complexities affecting your production?
Ensuring component accuracy is one of the biggest challenges in electronics manufacturing. Traditional methods often miss microscopic misalignments, leading to product failures and costly rework.
With new electronic products launching frequently, manufacturers must quickly adapt to frequent design updates while maintaining strict quality standards. Flexible, adaptive processes are essential to keep pace without disrupting production.
Technical complexity combined with frequent product updates make traditional training methods ineffective. Manufacturers need a system that guides workers in real-time and identifies errors before they impact product quality.
Electronics assembly involves precise, high-volume operations where small inefficiencies add up. Traditional time studies and process analysis are too labor-intensive to perform regularly, leaving significant productivity gains untapped.
Our AI Copilots address these challenges with electronics-focused solutions
Streamline your assembly processes with AI-powered precision:
✦ Prevent errors in real-time with step-by- step worker guidance.
✦ Achieve full traceability through video analytics.
✦ Uncover and address root causes of defects with minimal downtime.
Ensure component-level accuracy with intelligent verification:
✦ Detects assembly errors in real-time with AI-powered computer vision.
✦ Guides operators with step-by-step visual instructions for complex PCB assembly.
✦ Create complete video traceability for quality verification and compliance.
✦ Configure new product workflows quickly without programming skills or special equipment.
Accelerate continuous improvement with actionable insights:
✦ Reduce analysis time with instant time and motion studies.
✦ Enhance worker safety and productivity with ergonomic evaluations.
✦ Identify opportunities to optimize cycle times and cut costs.
Accelerate continuous improvement with actionable insights:
✦ Reduce analysis time with instant time and motion studies.
✦ Enhance worker safety and productivity with ergonomic evaluations.
✦ Identify opportunities to optimize cycle times and cut costs.
Ensure component-level accuracy with intelligent verification:
✦ Detects assembly errors in real-time with AI- powered computer vision.
✦ Guides operators with step-by-step visual instructions for complex PCB assembly.
✦ Create complete video traceability for quality verification and compliance.
✦ Configure new product workflows quickly without programming skills or special equipment.
Ensure component-level accuracy with intelligent verification:
✦ Detects assembly errors in real-time with AI-powered computer vision.
✦ Guides operators with step-by-step visual instructions for complex PCB assembly.
✦ Create complete video traceability for quality verification and compliance.
✦ Configure new product workflows quickly without programming skills or special equipment.
Transform electronics production efficiency with data-driven insights:
✦ Conduct automated time and motion studies 4x faster than traditional methods.
✦ Perform MODAPTS analysis to establish standard times for intricate assembly tasks.
✦ Identify ergonomic risks specific to electronics workstation design.
✦ Optimize line balancing across multi-stage assembly operations.
Transform electronics production efficiency with data-driven insights:
✦ Conduct automated time and motion studies 4x faster than traditional methods.
✦ Perform MODAPTS analysis to establish standard times for intricate assembly tasks.
✦ Identify ergonomic risks specific to electronics workstation design.
✦ Optimize line balancing across multi-stage assembly operations.
What makes Retrocausal uniquely valuable for electronics manufacturing?
Don’t let assembly challenges limit your production potential. Experience how Retrocausal’s AI solutions enhance quality verification and optimize electronics manufacturing operations.
Building bullet proof processes when failure is not an option
When manufacturing electronics for high-reliability products, the stakes are high. If the electronics fail in a phone or a watch, it would be an inconvenience, but failure in mission-critical applications such as medical devices, battery systems, telecommunication infrastructure, and airplanes could be catastrophic.
Over the past decade, experienced manufacturing associates have been retiring at the highest rates since the industrial revolution started. At the same time, employment in the global “temporary help supply” industry has more than tripled. These workers are often less skilled than the rest of the staff, leading to higher training requirements as well as quality and productivity challenges. Another trend in electronics systems manufacturing is an increasing customer demand for customizations.
All these factors are leading to quality issues for electronics manufacturers, and have increased the need to mistake-proof manual assembly processes. Our RetroActivity platform assists these manufacturers in three ways:
These capabilities have been shown to yield 10% improvement in first-time yield and 60% reduction in manual-assembly related quality issues within 2 weeks.
Assembly Copilot is the preferred solution for Contract Manufacturing due to its rapid re-programming capability. CMs have been able to re-program Assembly Copilot to function on a line that has been reconfigured for a new product within hours. CMs have a hard time setting up quality controls on their lines, and they using Assembly Copilot both as a Digital Instructions platform and a soft form of Digital Poka Yoke.
When a mass scale product is being set up for manufacturing at a CM, the first few weeks are crucial to extracting maximum productivity from the line. IEs use Assembly Copilot to obtain time studies, by conveniently re-programming it for a new station in two hours and then letting it capture timing measurements over the afternoon and night shifts. They are then able to re-deploy the same Assembly Copilot license/laptop the following morning on a different workstation.
Brandin and his team help our customers with setting up the Pathfinder platform and getting up-to-speed on all the features and functionalities, in addition to assisting them with standardizing their processes where needed.
Brandin is a seasoned manufacturing leader, who has spent more than a decade designing and setting up assembly lines in both the US and China, optimizing them, and working with human operators to maximize productivity and quality.
Jesse works closely with our marquis customers to understand their needs, and figures out the best solution that immediately adds dollars to their bottom line.
Jesse has two decades of enterprise sales experience. He has held sales leadership roles at pioneering technology startups.
Andrey takes inventions and converts them into innovations. He leads our product engineering team to turn our scientific prototypes into robust customer-facing products.
Andrey co-founded and successfully exited a startup to immigrate to the US. He spent his next eight years building the core data science infrastructure for Amazon’s supply chain planning team, and the CV/ML infrastructure for Microsoft’s HoloLens organization.
Zeeshan focuses on delighting our customers by understanding their needs and defining product and strategy to meet and exceed these needs. He works closely with our sales leadership to grow our customer base.
Zeeshan was a scientific leader at Microsoft’s HoloLens division, where he invented AI technologies to assist frontline workers across industries. Earlier, he shipped IoT platforms and visual defect detection software for manufacturers at Siemens and MVTec GmbH.
Huy takes our product roadmap and figures out what’s achievable with today’s AI advances, and what we need to invent to solve our customers’ pain points.
Huy led teams of scientists and engineers at NEC and invented technologies for driver assistance systems that are part of 500,000+ Honda cars. He is an inventor on more than 20 US patents, and his research papers are cited by every lab from MIT, Stanford, and CMU to Apple, Google, and Baidu.
