Unlocking the Hidden Potential of Your Data
With today’s accelerated pace of business, faster time to market is the key to having a competitive advantage. Manufacturers are pushing products to market as soon as possible, as winning not only requires delivering the best product but also being the first product. Developing products faster, better, and cheaper means optimizing the product development lifecycle and new product introduction timelines. For a solution to meet these types of demands, it must:
- Create a 360-degree view of the entire data lifecycle—through design, verification and validation, and production to deployed and in use.
- Eliminate the disparate data silos that are responsible for reactive responses and limited visibility into the data
- Identify the right data to create actionable insights by focusing not on what is going wrong, but why
- Adapt and grow as your testing and manufacturing become more complex
NI Lifecycle Solutions Powered by OptimalPlus
- Adaptive Manufacturing Analysis optimizes real-time adjustments to keep operations in spec
- Product Element Analysis provides tracking and contextual data for all product components
- Rapid Returns Analysis and Smart Recall aids in extracting value from product returns
- Contract Manufacturing Management creates a single source of truth for contract-manufacturing-supplied products
Solution Advantages
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More than 100 billion devices analyzed annually across the entire supply chain to deliver unprecedented manufacturing efficiency and product reliability
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Improve manufacturing productivity by reducing unnecessary tests and retests and increasing machine throughput by up to 20 percent
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Separate high-quality devices from tomorrow’s RMAs through actionable analytics
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Reduce scrap by detecting defective materials earlier in the process to ensure the minimum goes to waste
Adaptive Manufacturing with OptimalPlus
Explanation of adaptive manufacturing process and how yield and scrap reduction can be achieved through data insights.
Keep Operations in Spec in Real Time
Drift within individual test stations on the manufacturing floor is something you cannot avoid. Having a solution that uses data to make real-time adjustments while minimizing human interaction can help you reduce scrap and maintain quality.
OptimalPlus is a powerful platform and one of several methods to help us improve total quality and product reliability. With OptimalPlus’s product lifecycle analytics platform and solutions, we created a holistic safety net that works with our cutting-edge production solutions to monitor our production in real-time and automatically prevent any suspect devices from shipping to our customers. We believe this is one of the reasons we continue to win in the marketplace with new designs.
David Reed, EVP Technologies & Operations, NXP
Build Your Solution with the NI Ecosystem
NI offers a variety of solution integration options customized to your application-specific requirements. You can use your own internal integration teams for full system control or leverage the expertise of NI and our worldwide NI Partner Network to obtain a turnkey solution.
The NI Partner Network is a global community of domain, application, and overall test development experts working closely with NI to meet the needs of the engineering community. NI Partners are trusted solution providers, systems integrators, consultants, product developers, and services and sales channel experts skilled across a wide range of industries and application areas.
NI works with customers throughout the life of an application, delivering training, technical support, consultation and integration services, and maintenance programs. Teams can discover new skills by participating in NI-specific and geographic user groups and build proficiency with online and in-person training.
Discuss Your Application Needs with a Data Expert
Getting started on a large digital transformation effort can be a difficult and overwhelming task. Contact us today to discuss how you can get started on your journey to leverage the expertise of NI and OptimalPlus.
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