Manufacturing company
case study PCB Manufacturing company
Order Description
engaged to assist a manufacturer of printed circuit boards (PCB). The manufacturer is looking to improve cost performance as well as on-time performance for delivery. The attached excel worksheet is a sample of 100 orders with some details you are being asked to interpret. The management hasn’t really looked at the data (ever) and figures you may be able to shed some light on what is currently going on. Provide a narrative with illustrations (charts, tables, whatever) to communicate. You must also provide your source excel workbook in case I need to check your answers and/or methods and assumptions.
In addition, the firm is interested in optimizing the settings for PCB fabrication. After discussions with suppliers and engineers, a list of variables was proposed. There were five (5) variables and each would like to be considered at two settings: