Create a closed loop of production and manufacturing to improve production quality monitoring
When manufacturing meets the digital economy, it is inevitable that traditional industries will be driven to accelerate transformation, and informatization is also in a profound transformation. Although the three national strategies of Germany's Industry 4.0, the United States' Industrial Internet and China are different in expression, they are essentially the same, that is, intelligent manufacturing.

In the process of producing molds for its own factory, the Yinke Door Control Mold Department has always insisted on using informatization to drive industrialization and industrialization to promote informatization in the process of enterprise development, pursuing a sustainable development model. In recent years, through the continuous in-depth cooperation with Fangtian, it has gradually promotedIntelligent Manufacturing in Mold ShopIn building a new model, we will actively leverage the advantages of the information age, introduce intelligent manufacturing models, optimize operating systems, enhance equipment production and manufacturing capabilities, and actively respond to pressures and challenges in terms of high efficiency, high quality, and low cost.
Adhere to quality and create a unique corporate heritage
ECO Schulte Group | ECO Door Control (Zhuhai Free Trade Zone) Co., Ltd. ECO is headquartered in Menden, Germany, with nearly 100 years of design and production history. ECO has production bases in Menden, Germany, Luckenwalde, Germany, Denmark, and Zhuhai Free Trade Zone, China. ECO Schulte is distributed globally and has a complete production and marketing network in Europe and Asia.
Inco Door Control (Zhuhai Free Trade Zone) Co., Ltd. was established on June 30, 2003. Its registered address is located on the first and second floors of Zhuhai Free Trade Zone Jintian Warehousing and Trade Development Co., Ltd., No. 31, Zhuhai Free Trade Zone. The legal representative is TOBIAS SCHULTE. The business scope includes the production and sales of various self-produced door handles, door locks, door closers and accessories, various hardware, injection molding products, aluminum casting and machining products, and other raw and auxiliary materials. Finished and semi-finished processing; consulting and transfer of relevant management technology; bonded warehousing, international trade. (Projects that must be approved according to law can only carry out business activities after approval by relevant departments). Under the influence of the production environment, mold manufacturers need to produce higher quality precision molds while conducting strong monitoring in data management and the entire mold production process. In order to improve the internal management of the enterprise, the mold progress, materials, mold status and other automated management, and finally achieve mold cost control, Inco Door Control reached a cooperation path with Fangtian Software in layers of screening.
 

Start the road to intelligent management

The cooperation between Yinke Door Control and Fangtian Software began in 2020. Yinke Door Control chose Fangtian Software's B9 enterprise information management system product and started the group's informatization process. In June 2020, the mold management project was officially launched to meet the mold processing management requirements of Yinke Door Control's mold department. Through the construction of the MES system, the goals of refined control of work orders, progress management, labor time statistics and traceability, production capacity control, performance evaluation, and processing costs can be achieved.
"We hope to achieve precise control of mold processing progress through the software system, achieve precise management of automated scheduling in mold production, and finally reflect the mold cost." This is what Mr. Du, the person in charge of Yinke Access Control, said when the project started. Mr. Du also made great affirmation of Fangtian software, "In this mold manufacturing industry, we have visited many mold factories that use Fangtian software. We have great trust in their implementation experience for more than 20 years. We still have to use their good experience to better realize our management. Therefore, during the implementation process, any difficulties in each department can be raised and communicated with the consultants. Only in this way can we learn from the better experience of other mold factories to enrich our management."

Intelligent mold control to reduce costs and increase efficiency

One of the most important tasks of Yinke Door Control is molds. During the production process, it is necessary to manufacture new molds, purchase materials, insert orders, and repair old molds according to the different production needs of customers in different industries. In the early stage, Yinke Door Control used manual and Kanban control to display the mold progress and data on a whiteboard in a fixed position. Although it has achieved certain results, it consumes a lot of manual statistical data and is not very timely.
After the introduction of Fangtian MES system, all the purchase lists for each set of molds, from the control of the production of the entire set of molds to the progress of the production of each part, all mold management information is transparent. It greatly facilitates the extraction and analysis of data, and also avoids the shortcomings of human interference caused by manual reporting and the inconvenience of paper information storage.

Another important task of Yinke Door Control is that the mold department needs to count the actual working hours of each set of molds in the production process, and feedback the actual processing time of each part of each set of molds based on the actual work report of the workshop, so as to obtain the actual time of each set of molds through the software. After the introduction of informatization, the working hours of each part and each employee in each set of molds can be counted, and the company can also conduct professional analysis of the data, saving the workload of people for statistics, and greatly improving the accuracy and timeliness of production management data requirements. At present, the workshop processing uses PDA to scan the code to report work, which is convenient for workshop personnel to report work more conveniently, and the actual operation of the operator is more convenient, which greatly improves the operating efficiency of workshop personnel, avoids waste of resources, extra work, improper management, or material loss, reduces related costs, and ensures the security and reliability of information.
Balanced distribution of production capacity to reduce workpiece blockage
Any processing plant needs to plan and arrange in advance during the production process, so PMC/production management has become a very important role in the factory. So how can production management personnel reasonably distribute the processing tasks they receive? For Yinke Access Control, the technical department is responsible for entering the mold BOM into the system. New molds require project department personnel to operate large projects, set large project times, and control the large projects of the entire set of molds. Longgong, the person in charge of the mold department, arranges the process of each part for the parts BOM issued by the technical department and schedules production according to the large project time. The Fangtian system automatically schedules the time of each part according to the large project time. Workshop personnel can also process parts according to the time scheduled in the system. The person in charge can consider whether the production capacity is sufficient based on the production capacity of the Fangtian system, so as to determine whether the remaining molds need to be postponed or whether they need to be outsourced, so as to achieve a balanced distribution of production capacity and reduce workpiece congestion;
Based on the actual working hours reported by the workshop personnel and the settings of the Fangtian software, the processing cost of the molds in the mold department is automatically calculated.
Another problem with Inko Access Control is that there was previously a lack of good management of molds, which resulted in the inability to control the status of molds. After the introduction of the Fangtian system, the use, return, repair, and maintenance of molds are all managed through PDA, thereby controlling the actual status of each set of molds.
 

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