Hylax Technology Case Study Report: Concurrent Design And Manufacturing

Executive Summary

With the eight of the core capabilities, it allows Hylax Technology to come up with manufacturing solutions that are feasible and cost effective. Therefore, they will have an excellent laser solutions for a large customer base and throughout the years they have been keeping a close relationship working with their customers where it does not only enhanced their expertise and experience. By having a group of strong team, they are able to build their own software and electronics where they are able to create innovative solution for their customer. So to gain more potential customers they often take part in global exhibition. With the newly expanded laboratory, manpower and different types of laser, they are able to achieve ultimate results and solutions. One of the unique products is Scanvision where they combine both vision camera and laser system where it can eliminate all tolerance and improve the accuracy as well. Hylax Technology require software where it is to control the machine for cutting or marking the application. It also require material removal for processes like cutting or even when they uses the product called Scanvision and also require additive processes as they uses their HT series laser to manufacture their application. One of the key factors to success for the company manufacturing business is having a great team. With a great team of skilled and experienced staff, the success rate of the company will be high which helps the company to operate smoothly.

Introduction

Hylax Technology is one of the biggest process development center in South East Asia that integrate lasers from many Original Equipment Manufacturer. Throughout the years, they have been working alongside with their customers by having their own optics beam delivery subsystem that is designed with efforts by them. It does not only enhance their expertise and experience but also increases the relationship with their customers. To further increase the relationship and trust between their customers, Hylax Technology invested in a laboratory where they can make samples and prototypes to support their customer’s needs. Not only focuses in the relationship between the company and customers, Hylax also enhance and improve the manufacturers in process capabilities by having many innovative and revolutionary solutions to assist them. By having a strong team of well-trained and experienced engineers, together, they have create their own software and electronics to control the lasers to allow flexibility to develop innovative and advance solutions for the industry. Not only that, with the combination of a unique mixture of core capabilities which includes laser and laser application, vision solutions, optics, mechanical, electronics and electrical, control and software. Eight of these integrations of Hylax core capabilities allows them to come up with manufacturing solutions that are more practical and cost effective which in short stands for excellent laser solutions.

Customer List

Hylax Technology have large customer base where it come from various sector. Some of the well-known industries include Toshiba, Siemens and also Hewlett-Packard. Industries varies from electronics sector to manufacturing sector and also to biomedical sector.

Event and Exhibitions

Hylax Technology take part in district and global exhibitions and events to promote their products to potential users where they also get to meet potential customers for in-depth discussion on the products so as to develop greater understanding to make adjustment on products to achieve the best to suit the customer’s needs. Hylax Technology are able to gain trust and confidence from their customers because they are able to suggest better alternative ways to best fit each of their wants and needs at a much lower cost and a more aesthetic solutions than their competitors.

Lab Facilities

As mention above, Hylax Technology invested in an impressive laboratory. This is essential as this is for the customer who needed prove of the ability to work successfully with the solutions implemented before they put a huge investment into it. They have recently increase the size of the laboratory, manpower and types of lasers to further provide the customers with the greatest facility to do all the test and so to achieve a ultimate results from it. In the laboratory, it have a wide range of lasers to accommodate to your complexity needs and motorized stages as well as apparatus which is to build detailed setup so as to handle challenging specimen.

While assisting customers in improving their processes to an extent, staff in the laboratory make progress in their product development because they are so well-trained that difficult requirements seems easy to achieve.

Scanvision

In Hylax Technology, they implemented a technology called Scanvision which combine both vision camera and a laser system to produce a high precision with high speed laser processes. With this, it is possible to achieve accuracy up to 3 microns in milliseconds as well as eliminating all tolerance that is associated with mechanical movements.

Hylax PFS (Power feedback)

Difference between the standard CO2 lasers that most industry used as compared to Hylax PFS is that they developed a power output feedback system into the standard CO2 laser. As the standard CO2 laser often have a fluctuation which affected the marking result especially when application that requires a spot size of less than 100um which leads to a big challenge. With Hylax PFS being implemented, this helps to stabilize the output pulse which therefore allows them to achieve a better performance.

Products

Hylax HT6000 CO2 series laser have their own manufacturing process ensuring high gas purity and able to operate for long hour to about more than 45,000 hours. They use Hypermark control software where it help to cut or mark the application. This product can do work including marking, cutting, trimming and drilling. Hylax HT5000 series laser have long operating diode life. They use integrated control laser unit and also Hypermark control software. This product can do work including annealing, etching, ablation and scribing. Hylax HT2000 series laser uses Hypermark control software where it help to cut or mark the application. Conventional cutting and trimming methods are workable because during the process of UV laser, the heat generated are low. This product can do work including marking, cutting, drilling, ablation. Core business Hylac Technology have a unique mixture of core capabilities which includes laser and laser application, vision, optics, mechanical, electronics and electrical, control and software. Eight of these integration of Hylax core capabilities allows them to come up with manufacturing solutions that are more practical and cost effective which in short stands for giving excellent laser solutions.

Manufacturing technologies required

The manufacturing technologies required are software as the company needed software where it can control the machine to cut or mark the application, material removal as during the cutting process , there is a need to remove long chips forming from the work piece so as to give off better finishing and accuracy. In addition, it also include Manufacturing technologies also include additive processes as they uses HT series laser to manufacture their application. Also, for Scanvision, the technology include material removal as it offer processes like marking welding, and cutting etc., it also include work holding as the theta drift the work piece from an incorrect position without shifting the work piece because only the galvanometers will be moving around.

Key success factors for the company’s manufacturing business

1. A great team. There is no point when you have a great product but does not have the right team, if so, then your success rate will be low. It is so much better to have a team of experienced and skillful staff to help with the operation and make the company run smoothly.
2. Strong links with the market. Success of business start from customer. Getting customer feedback is important as you are able to connect with the customer to find out what they really want or need which can help in gaining their trust to the company. In addition, be that one company that is able to solve a problem efficiently.

Innovation is also one of the key success factors because it will be better if the product that your company sell is actually what you originally designed it and also being better than what other competitor sell.

Ways that the company can better prepare itself for the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0)

As the years continue to move forward, everyone knows that things like technologies, material and society are changing, but we also know that in 30 years’ time, manufacturing will also be very different. So, the team should study and know what industry 4.0 is and also how it will impact the company business. Always be ready to brainstorm ideas and self-improvement by getting hands on new technologies with open minded. I believe that after getting the staff to expose to new technologies, they are able to help the company to improve on the products or even improve on a certain machine where it can, for example, eliminate tolerance or even innovate a new solution to the company existing customer.