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Improve Quality and Yield in Production

Enhance manufacturing quality and yield through superhuman visual inspection and real-time oversight. Prevent escapes, get alerts when yield drifts, and conduct faster failure analysis when issues arise.

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Real-time yield oversight

Problem

Lack of real-time visibility into critical manufacturing metrics like yield and throughput creates business risk

Solution

See real-time manufacturing metrics across SKUs, stations, lines, and sites – all in one place. Receive proactive SPC alerts to catch drifts and changes before they impact yield and leverage a live Pareto to prioritize issues.

Real-time yield oversight

Ensure high quality

Problem

Factory escapes cause returns, brand damage, safety liability, and cost. Best practices to prevent escapes are ineffective.

Solution

For High Volume Electronics, ensure high quality and reduced rework by catching defects across multiple lines and SKUs. For Mission-Critical Electronics, achieve zero escapes with an automated visual inspection that is faster, better, and cheaper than manual inspection.

Ensure high quality

Accelerate failure analysis with AI-powered tools

Problem

You have to meet your yield and schedule, and the manual failure analysis process is slowing your team down.

Solution

When an issue arises, use Instrumental’s failure analysis tools to solve them quickly. It offers complete data traceability and generates new data through AI-powered measurements. It enables virtual teardowns and facilitates root cause identification through AI-assisted correlations.

Accelerate failure analysis with AI-powered tools
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A core product was being returned at higher rates, and in less than two weeks, Instrumental helped us discover the root cause. This allowed us to respond quickly and deliver an even better product to our customers, all from our home offices.”

Mike Schuetz

Manufacturing Engineering Manager, Owlet

Case Study: Lenovo

Lenovo prevents nearly 50% of the production rework and Gains Approximately $1 Per-Unit Savings

Lenovo is a leading global designer and manufacturer of laptops, tablets, smart devices, servers, and with their acquisition of Motorola Mobility in 2014, phones. Their persistent commitment to innovation and cutting-edge manufacturing processes culminated in the launch of the Motorola Razr, with its folding screen, ambitious zero-gap hinge, display robustness requirements, and miniaturized design. To bring such an ambitious product to market, Lenovo successfully executed on a variety of production process advancements to their already industry-leading manufacturing practice.

When the Motorola Mobility development team handed off Razr to Lenovo’s manufacturing team for production, Lenovo partnered closely with Instrumental. Instrumental’s holistic data capturing, intelligent AI processing, and real-time reporting powered the advanced practice of continuous optimization at Lenovo, pushing Lenovo even farther ahead of the competition.

Even amidst the industry-wide business continuity challenges caused by COVID-19, Lenovo has been able to achieve yield improvements, scrap reduction, and team productivity gains throughout ramp and production.

Download the full case study to learn more about Lenovo’s journey with Instrumental and the results they achieved.

The Razr’s innovative hinge design and folding display introduced novel complexities into the production process.

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