Flex (Flextronics)
Canvas Category OEM : Computer and Electronic
Our purpose is to make great products for our customers that create value and improve people’s lives. We help a diverse customer base design and build the products that make the world a better place. Through the collective strength of a global workforce across 30 countries and responsible, sustainable operations, we deliver technology innovation, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions to various industries and end markets.
Assembly Line
Optimizing electronics manufacturing with artificial intelligence and machine learning
Our team wanted to find a way to make the PCBA testing process more efficient and reliable. Working with this customer at our Guadalajara, Mexico site, we knew that we could build greater trust and deepen our partnership by influencing the product and test design to be more efficient. The result was an AI/ML application that learned from testing data and was able to reorder and prioritize test steps that were failing the most — putting them earlier in the process so that tests would not fail at the last step — and those that were most important to the functioning of the PCBA.
AI/ML has also been used to significant effect for electronics product vision inspections. Traditionally, human workers inspected products as they traveled through the manufacturing line, but as product demands and timeline speeds increased, it became more difficult to get quality inspection right. Inspection criteria became increasingly wide-ranging, covering screws, wires, labels, and defects to other vital components. Over a shift, workers also experienced visual fatigue, resulting in more errors.
Nextracker Announces Launch of Initial Public Offering
Flex Ltd. (NASDAQ: FLEX) announced today that its subsidiary, Nextracker Inc. (“Nextracker”), has launched the roadshow for its initial public offering of 23,255,814 shares of its Class A common stock (“Common Stock”). The underwriters of the offering will also have a 30-day option to purchase from Nextracker up to 3,488,372 additional shares of Common Stock. The initial public offering price is expected to be between $20.00 and $23.00 per share. Nextracker has applied to list its Common Stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol “NXT.”
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