EMS@C-LEVEL · 26 Nov 2023 · 13m
Joel Scutchfield, General Manager of Koh Young America, discusses the global electronics manufacturing industry's shift toward EV, battery, and AI technologies, driven by geopolitical trends and the CHIPS Act. He explains how Koh Young's K-Smart software and AI-enabled automation address critical talent shortages by reducing reliance on human intervention and enabling self-correction in SPI and AOI processes. Scutchfield also analyzes the current market landscape, noting flat growth in 2024 due to inventory corrections and interest rates, while highlighting operational excellence as the key focus for EMS providers.
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ManufacturingKoh Young K-Smart software
The software uses artificial intelligence to automatically program inspection machines, removing the need for advanced human expertise to set up the equipment manually.
“we certainly apply that , the next level of all of that being again back to the artificial intelligence for auto programming per se . So we , we are now able to do in an automatic fashion what was very manual not so many years ago…”
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AI enables machines to self-correct defects on the fly without requiring a human operator to intervene and adjust the equipment.
“Now we introduce the artificial intelligence piece which has the capability to completely self correct on the fly without that human intervention . So , again , continuing to reduce and automate at the same time…”
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