S.M.T. Assembly Limited

S.M.T. Assembly Limited (S.M.T.) is an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) & Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) of electronic products. S.M.T. currently has the most advanced Japanese SMT production lines, THT plug-in packaging machine, testing assembly line. S.M.T. has formed a PCB assembly processing centre with large scale and their customers are distributed throughout Europe & United States.

Facing the keen competition in the international market, SMT needed to improve its management system, therefore, it consulted TQM.

Project Scope

• Introduce “Problem Solving Techniques” such as “7 tools of Quality Control”, “Design of Experiment”, etc.
• Review all kinds of reports, to identify ways to reduce the quantity while improving the quality
• Diagnose problems, perform root cause analysis, and take follow-up actions
• Strengthen “Visual Control”
• Implement Japanese 5S (Structuralize, Systematize, Sanitize, Standardize and Self-discipline) campaign
• Utilize video camera to perform immediate feedback on the achievements to all involved parties
• Strictly execute the “approved operator system” for key operations
• Restructure employee training programme, simplify and conduct comprehensive “on-the-job training”
• Implement “preventive maintenance system”

Achievements

• Streamlined and reengineered the management system of S.M.T.’s factory in China
• Posted statistical charts which showed the trends on quality, customer satisfaction, etc. in the site of the operation for “Visual Control”
• Reduced the customer field reject rate by 75% within 4 months
• Decreased internal QC rejects by over 50%