Donner Company Process Flow Case --------------------------------

Pinning panel to drill table Drilling Holes CNC Drill Press Metallization Washing scrubbing and coating of panel with DFPR Alignment of Customer Artwork and exposure to UV DFPR Developing Machine Electroplating and Tin Plating Chemical Etching of DFPR and Copper layer Pinning panel to drill table Drilling Holes CNC Drill Press Metallization Washing scrubbing and coating of panel with DFPR Alignment of Customer Artwork and exposure to UV DFPR Developing Machine Electroplating and Tin Plating Chemical Etching of DFPR and Copper layer Fabrication Soldermask Silk screening Solder Bath Reduction to finished profile by CNC routing/punch press Soldermask Silk screening Solder Bath Reduction to finished profile by CNC routing/punch press Order Size in drilling Let Order size = N If manual press is used, then time taken to punch N orders = 15 + N*0.08*500 = 1 5 + 40N If CNC is used, then time taken to punch N orders = 240 + N*0.004*500 = 240 +2N Hence it is clear that CNC should be used only when time taken by CNC is less th at time taken by manual press i.e. 15+40N >= 240 + 2N => N = 6 Hence for Order sizes 6 or above CNC should be used and order sizes below 6, man ual press should be used CNC Routing Let number of Orders = N Time for punch press = 50 + N Time for CNC Router = 150 + 0.5N Again, CNC router should be used only if 50 + N > 150 + 0.5N * N = 200 Capacity of DFPR Area (Order size assumed to be 8) Time taken for panel preparation (one panel has eight circuit boards, hence 8 or ders is serviced by a single panel preparation) = 5 + 0.2 = 5.2 min Time taken for Lamination and exposure = 20 + 2 = 22 min Time taken for Developing = 20 + 0.2 = 20.2 min Hence the bottleneck process here is Lamination and exposure which takes 22 min for an order size of 8. Hence capacity of this process = 1/22 panels per minute

= 60/22 panels per hour = 2.72 panels...