MSD Control in a High Reliability Production Environment
The Information and Electronic Warfare Systems
business of BAE SYSTEMS Information and
Electronic Systems Integration,Inc. (“BAE
SYSTEMS IEWS”),a subsidiary of BAE SYSTEMS
North America,is involved in the manufacture of a
wide range of military products for the government.
One of the manufacturing focus factories within the
IEWS group deals strictly with the production of
Circuit Card Assemblies (CCA). The CCA focus
factory performs the hardware build for programs
internal to the company and supports a contract
manufacturing organization that seeks work from
outside the company as well. To that end,the CCA
Focus factory is best characterized as a low volume,
high mix manufacturing environment. Given the type
of business in which the CCA focus factory is
engaged,areas of improvement are continually being
identified. One such area pertains to the management
of Moisture Sensitive Devices (MSD). With the help
of Cogiscan Inc. of Quebec,Canada,a solution to
this industry wide problem of effectively managing
MSDs has been addressed.