Product category: Electronics Manufacturing Machinery and Materials
News Release from: DEK
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 7 July 2003
Web-based tool calculates
return on investment
A new ROI calculator enables potential and current users of DEK's award-winning ProFlow paste deposition process to put a financial value on the benefits of implementing the system
Developed to assist customers with financial justification of the product, the calculator is the latest in a series of ProFlow support tools that have been made available directly to ProFlow users. The ROI calculator is essentially a tool that allows engineers to make an informed purchasing decision by evaluating the total savings per machine per year, as well as the return on investment over one, two and three years.
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Formulated as an easy-to-use Excel spreadsheet, it takes four of the process' key benefits and measures the cost advantages of running ProFlow over squeegees based on a user's own data.
The user is required to input data about the current process: information such as the amount of solder paste used; the cost of solder paste; the cost of the operator to run the current system; the cost of defects; and the average profit on a board produced on the line.
Based on these user inputs and DEK ProFlow projections (which can be adjusted if required), the spreadsheet outputs the potential savings per machine per year for each of the benefits.
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"Available to any potential or current ProFlow user, the ROI calculator is an additional tool for anyone focusing on justifying the decision to buy ProFlow", says David Foggie, ProFlow Product Manager.
"Users can get the most out of it by sitting down with a DEK applications engineer to run through it, as it is capable of simulating different scenarios so that the user can test different manufacturing set ups.
It is, however, available on CD and is also downloadable for any registered user of the DEK website".
Further ProFlow support tools include: a best working practice guide for ProFlow operators; an implementation guide for engineers and technicians; a ProFlow paste test procedure; and a ProFlow resource CD.
All are downloadable from the DEK website, apart from the CD, which is included with the ProFlow system when purchased.
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