Cách Rakon tối ưu hóa quy trình chọn linh kiện

The Background

Rakon is one of the world's largest manufacturers of frequency control products and timing solutions that are embedded in various applications such as 5G networks, satellites, and autonomous vehicles.

The company started in New Zealand and has since grown to manufacture thousands of parts in various global locations. As they grew and acquired companies, the need arose to merge and consolidate product lines as well as their component purchasing. Merging thousands of internal part numbers (IPNs) and manufacturer part numbers (MPNs) proved to be a very challenging process.

Solution

The company's CEO, Dr. Sinan Altug, recognized the need for a global strategy for component selection to help streamline their component selection and increase their product quality control.

Nicole Lie, the Program Delivery Manager for Strategic Initiatives (who was the Program Manager of Global Engineering at the time), was tasked to help build this initiative.

After analyzing the problem, Nicole realized the need for a tool to help Rakon with this task. Subsequently, a thorough evaluation of the tools available in the market was done, and Z2Data was onboarded as a component selection management tool.

Result

Once Z2Data was onboarded, Rakon could easily classify its components and build a robust component selection strategy. This helped them eliminate component redundancies, improve their quality control processes, and increase their purchasing power.

As Rakon began rolling out Z2Data into their other global business units, they started encountering shortages that had begun impacting the entire industry due to Covid.

At that juncture, Rakon needed a tool to help them with their component sourcing to meet their product manufacturing and life cycle management needs.