What’s new in Opcenter Execution Electronics 2504

Continued improve shop floor user experience and expanded portfolio integration

Summary

Opcenter™ Execution Electronics (OC EX EL) software is a complete digital manufacturing solution for the electronics industry. It is built on an industry-leading manufacturing execution system (MES) platform for the electronics, medical device and semiconductor industries. Opcenter Execution Electronics is used in the electronics value chain for printed circuit boards (PCBs), mechanical and box-build processes.

The solution includes best-in-class manufacturing operations management (MOM) capabilities such as manufacturing execution, quality management, material management, planning and scheduling and manufacturing intelligence. This facilitates directly connecting to machines and production lines.

Electronics manufacturers can quickly execute new product introductions (NPIs) and reduce time-to-market, which increases their competitive advantage in a rapidly changing, consumer-driven marketplace.

Using Opcenter Execution Electronics 2504 in conjunction with Mendix™ Low-code platform, which are part of the Siemens Xcelerator business platform of software, hardware and services, helps deliver new enhancements to improve the application’s capabilities and security. The Mendix Low-code development framework and community of prebuilt marketplace components make it easy to create and deliver powerful, optimized and role-based apps.

Opcenter Execution Electronics 2504 provides new and enhanced shopfloor UI´s, several functional improvements for electronics and battery, improved integrations across Electronics and Semiconductor production and more.

Benefits

• Provide greatly enhanced role-based user experience
• Improved operator efficiency
• Improved shopfloor integration
• Improved maintainability
• Integrated Semiconductor Electronics process support

Capabilities

Real time manufacturing operation page, material setup UI

• Visualize materials currently setup on the selected resource

• Show what materials are required based on any Feeder Plan as well as the material list (BOM) of the selected Mfg Order

• Previewing / assigning a new Feeder Plan to the resource to see what materials must be added or removed to meet requirements

• Perform the loading, replacing and removal of the materials to the resource

• View and set the Active Mfg Order on the Resource (containers which are not part of active order, will be blocked, interlocking)

Automatic depanel enhancement

• New option configurable on a Spec to control whether the “depanel” (disassociate) action takes place before or after the containers are moved from the step (each PCB will be moved based on standard movement logic)

• When configured to perform the disassociate before the move, each child container of the parent will then be moved individually and can move down different paths

• Supports the automatic rework functionality for failed container

Active manufacturing order enhancement

• Ability to assign an Active Mfg Order to a resource

• The Core Resource Setup and Electronics Setup Resource portal pages were updated to support assigning/clear the Active Mfg Order

• When an Active Mfg Order is assigned to a resource, it will prevent container transactions for containers that are not associated to the Active Mfg Order (interlocking)

Bill of Material (BOM) import

Manufacturing order dispatch page enhancements

Core component issue and component issue advanced pages update

• To detect a default issue difference reason configured on the Spec and set it automatically if an issue difference is detected

Electronics installer enhancements

• Automatically activate the 200 workspace

• Enhanced the install to use JSON configuration files to allow for easy installation using Ansible or even PowerShell scripts to perform the installation

Production client – Use material setup

Production client, additional enhancements

• Support for substitutes for Lot & Stock Point and other issue types

• Hide closed defects

• Auto select open pin defects on the same component

• Add repair button to change defect type & reason UI

• View product documents in Box Grid

• View product + material item images

• Configurable Sow Form button in UI configuration

• Change a defect from box product to PCB product

• Keep zoom level & positioning when flipping board

• Interlocking against Active Mfg Order

OP EX EL CN MOM Tester Adapter enhancement

• Support for loading a custom .NET Tester Parser assembly

• SDK and sample .NET template

• Provide the possibility to adapt to any tester file

Power BI Reports

• New Material Inventory and Queue Report and System Genealogy report

• New summary tables for Production and Quality Dashboard

• Improved Mfg Order WIP report

Exposure time propagation and validation

• Extended Material Lifetime management functionality to Propagate Exposure Duration from source container to the target container on component issue or replace

• Include validation

Throughput mode for carrier maintenance

• Supports the configuration of throughput modes for carriers based on

• Usage, increase usage count when an empty carrier is loaded

• Quantity, track count based on the sum of the quantities of all containers loaded onto the carrier

• Configuration of whether to record carrier throughput and whether to validate carries maintenance is managed on the spec

Semiconductor – Electronics Synergy

• Ability to execute Semiconductor and Electronics within a single MES environment

• Execute Semiconductor backend and SMT production in a single MES environment

Core & technology enhancements

Electronics container images

• Provide container images for Opcenter Execution Electronics to support for containerized deployment

• Delivers additional support of the following containerized deployment options:

• Support AWS with VM Oracle

Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) Tool

• Reads metadata from the Microsoft Access Database

• Generate entity relationship diagram of Opcenter metadata

• Visualize ER

Dynamic Purge Tool – Evaluation version

• Purging data from the transaction database

• Ability to restore the archived data

• Supports automation through MS SQ agent

REST API enhancements

• Enhanced shop floor transactions

• Enhanced file uploading

• Reduces the time to generate the entity data model

• Improves error logging

• and more…

Technology enhancements

• Chrome 134+

• Edge Chromium 134+

• Siemens Mendix runtime server 10.18.0

• Siemens SPC common component 2412

• Axios 1.7.9

• Express js 4.21.2

• Npgsql 8.06

• Xyflow 12.3.4

Please see Opcenter Execution Core and Medical Device and Diagnostics and Opcenter Execution Semiconductor 2504 SFB for more details on new core functionalities.