The need for lower costs and higher quality is a relentless innovation driver in modern manufacturing. Old methods that worked in traditional industries have proved to be too inflexible and inefficient for the modern electronics industry, particularly PCB manufacturing. Forward thinking companies, however, can take advantage of new technologies such as “Industry 4.0” to gain a competitive advantage in the new global marketplace. This white paper from Mentor Graphics will expose five surprising manufacturing statistics that reveal hidden insights into the nature of cost, productivity, inventory control and quality.

In this white paper you will learn:

• 95 percent of manufacturing businesses optimize just 1 percent of their costs
• SMT operations run at as little as 20 percent productivity
• 75 percent of SMT raw materials in a factory are redundant
• 30 percent of precuts lave he factory untested
• 80 percent of managers know the issues, bit feel powerless

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