These 4 COIVD-19 challenges in electronics manufacturing could result in delayed launch schedules, lower financial returns, and quality issues in the field that could damage brand reputations
Eric Schmidt’s Five Insights About Navigating Coronavirus That Every Business Leader Needs To Hear NowFactory and supplier partners are often thousands of miles away from where electronics products are designed, making travel essential part of development and production of new products.
While daily reports from the factory can help to provide context, misaligned incentives lead to mistrust and human aggregation into spreadsheets lead to errors. The data is pulled at a specific moment in time, but in early production, it’s actually the trends that matter most. Issues tracked in spreadsheets lack critical context – in the physical world, parts that are near each other can influence each other, so it matters whether the issue occurs near the battery or near the speaker.
. Without oversight, which under COVID-19 translates to “without trustworthy real-time, aggregated data”, companies developing products tell us they feel like they are building in the dark. With a laundry list of problems, limited team resources, and a radically different working environment, many have taken the approach of tackling problems one by one from Maslow's pyramid of needs. First, get the factory open.
The problems surfaced by COVID-19 will not go away overnight. As the manufacturing industry rises to the occasion, we’re going to witness the fast adoption of innovative technologies at scale because there was no other choice. We will see five years of innovation happen in the next 18 months – necessity is truly the mother of invention.
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