Expanding the AES series of Audio Product Education Institute webinars focused on Supply Chain & Sourcing, this new online event offers valuable perspectives from executives with extensive experience production line challenges. In "Production Test and Manufacturing Strategies to Build Better Audio Products," supply chain and sourcing experts, David Lindberg (DB Enterprises) and Mike Klasco (Menlo Scientific) have invited two companies who play a key role in that space.
Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, the co-founder of Instrumental will explain how her company helps solves complex production line challenges when building products. And Daniel Knighten, General Manager, and Eric Hodges, Director of Marketing and Sales Operations for Audio Precision, will explain how a new integrated audio test system helps with quality assessments, reducing setup and reconfiguration time.
Detecting and solving problems and inefficiencies in the factory floor is key to consistently successful product strategies. Launching new products is being challenged by compressed timelines, and dramatically increasing engineering complexity. 20% of every dollar spent in manufacturing alone is wasted on things like scrap, rework, product returns, mistakes, experiments, and underutilized human resources.
Large audio manufacturers such as Bose, and many consumer electronics companies trust in Instrumental to accelerate product development timelines and improve production yields of their audio products by using artificial intelligence (AI) to aggregate and analyze all of their product data to discover, root cause, and resolve even the most complex issues. In this webinar, Anna-Katrina Shedletsky will explain how Instrumental can help eliminate defects in development and production, showing examples of audio devices with key components such as speakers, microphones and antennas.
Instrumental was started by two ex-Apple mechanical engineers who spent years on the factory floor. The company provides cutting-edge technology that enables engineers to not just stop problems at the end of the line, but to fix them upstream. Instrumental is used by the world’s most admired brands in consumer and industrial electronics, appliances, and apparel.
Manufacturing test strategies for audio products depend greatly from managing variables for both “cost of test” and “cost of failure.” The goal of a manufacturing test is to ensure that the products manufactured, and ultimately shipped to retail or directly to customers, meet the design specifications and perform as intended. Unfortunately, uncontrolled variability or tolerances in materials and manufacturing processes can directly, and negatively, impact the ability to achieve this goal. In this webinar, Audio Precision will explain what is the most effective way to test products to ensure they meet specifications.
Audio Precision will also detail how the new APx517B acoustic audio analyzer, developed specifically with the manufacturing environment in mind, can be conveniently and efficiently adapted for different test strategies. Integrating a power amplifier, microphone power supply, and analyzer required for the testing of speakers, microphones, headphones, headsets, and the wide range of consumer electronics incorporating speakers and microphones, the APx517B can save time in the overall test process through reduced setup and configuration steps.
After the presentations, attendees will have a valuable opportunity to ask questions. The pillar chairs and the presenters will also address topics such as the pandemic challenges on the production chain and broken supply chains, finding and selecting manufacturing partners in different regions of the globe, the manufacturing reliance on China, and foreseeable challenges and misalignments in electronics manufacturing.
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