Process audit: On the first 2 days, we will visit your site, with the aim of looking at the activities involved in the surface mount production process. The following areas will be evaluated: Material flow Europlacer Stock Management Europlacer offline kitting Component storage Part numbering system Part of the production Job changeover times Feeder changes/reel splicing Line balancing Europlacer PROMON software (production monitoring) Production techniques and common issues Europlacer package library verification Adding hand fit devices to the automated placement machine Data preparation Data conversion (scenarios: CAD, ASCII, Gerber file, no data) Document control – surface mount and stores. Quality reports Additional work Cycle times - to provide scenario-based speed estimations and subsequent recommendations as to the optimum machine(s) configuration & feeder requirement for the current and/or new production.