Mold Production Management System | Mold ERP Software Cloud Service
1. Introduction
Mold and fixture development is a very important core capability of the manufacturing industry and a major strategic tool for corporate competitiveness. In 2010, 60% of the top 1,000 Chinese manufacturing companies had mold and fixture departments, which shows the importance of mold and fixture development and related management to a company. Since China has become the world's third largest economy, the world's second largest exporter, and the world's third largest mold manufacturing country; but with the development of global economic integration, international trade protection measures against China will continue to increase, which will inevitably have a huge impact on the development of traditional industries.
Of course, molds have a more direct impact on the mold industry, which is the front line of the industry and is also the foundation of the manufacturing industry. In the past two decades of development, Chinese mold companies have already possessed the world's most sophisticated mold processing equipment and advanced CAD\CAM software. More mold companies use CAE software to improve engineering analysis and product performance. Rich and creative molds Technical talent. Since Chinese mold companies have these excellent basic conditions, what are they lacking when they are facing the critical stage of transformation? The answer lies in...how mold companies can control external trends and do a good job in internal management capabilities. Due to space reasons, this time we focus on the internal management of mold companies.
2. Management Informationization and System Implementation
There are many projects that mold companies need to manage. First of all, they need to control the cost of molds to ensure profits. Cost control of mold companies is one of the difficulties faced by most operators in management. The price competition pressure faced by the mold industry is getting heavier year by year, so how to plan cost budgets and implement control is one of the necessary core capabilities of mold companies. The mold production period is longer than that of general commodities, and there is no other reference target for comparison, so mold cost control is different from general mass-produced commodities. However, if mold companies cannot grasp the changes in mold costs and manage and control them during the mold development process, it is possible that after several product design changes, modifications, mold trials or on-site rework by customers, the profits of the mold will disappear or lead to losses. To grasp the cost of the mold, we must first analyze the cost structure of the mold:
Management informationization is a powerful tool for mold companies to improve their competitiveness, but it is not a panacea. In addition to being introduced in order according to the company's own strength and needs, the company also needs to build basic corporate data before it can carry out various information management. A good start is half the battle. The following are the steps for mold companies to introduce information management:
Step 1: Human resources and business management. People are the foundation of business operations and one of the most important resources. For all equipment operations and process arrangements, if the company cannot grasp the current or future human resources situation, mold project progress management cannot be carried out. Therefore, before introducing other management systems, the company must at least introduce a human resources management system as the key to starting enterprise management informationization. Business development and order processing are the source of vitality for enterprise operations. Only by doing a good job in business management can each order bring reasonable profits to the company. Therefore, human resources and business management are very suitable for mold companies that want to establish management informationization.
Step 2: Workshop management, procurement management and inventory management are the busiest parts of manufacturing enterprise operations. Eighty percent of the time for each order is spent on these management projects. The main function of workshop management is to rationally use equipment and human resources to arrange the mold parts process and collect and count the processing hours of each station. Procurement management is the management and tracking of work orders and non-work order materials or outsourced processing required for the mold making process. Regular or spare mold parts materials need to be managed by establishing an inventory system to reduce the complexity of procurement operations. When the inventory is less than the set safety value, the system will automatically alarm to prompt the material manager.
The third step: Real-time cost. When the enterprise completes the five management systems of human resources, business, procurement, inventory and workshop management, the real-time mold cost will be formed naturally. The enterprise can define control points at several important periods in the mold development process, and the information system will automatically settle the cost for the manager as a reference for management decision-making. For example, when the material preparation is completed or the first mold trial is completed, etc.
Step 4: The automatic scheduling system is the favorite and ultimate dream of all factory managers. In addition to the establishment of the actual operating experience parameters of the enterprise, the most important thing for automatic scheduling is the digitization of equipment and personnel capabilities. This is the difficulty for enterprises to introduce automatic scheduling, and it is also an important factor affecting the accuracy of the automatic scheduling system. After the enterprise has accumulated enough information in steps one and two, the information system can generate the real-time information required by the automatic scheduling system, so that each work order can automatically execute the allocation of equipment and human resources. It is usually recommended that mold companies import this system after having 10 to 12 months of data, which will achieve twice the result with half the effort.
Conclusion
The acquisition of "real-time cost" of molds and the adjustment of "flexible progress" allow mold managers to grasp the cost of molds at any time, adjust the progress of molds in time, and maximize the profit of molds. In addition, the internal management of mold enterprises should also gradually achieve:
-Billboard Management
-Paperless workshop
-Infinite information
It is a simple and powerful method for enterprises to manage all important aspects of their operations according to the order of management priorities.Fangtian Mould ERP Management Software SystemIt can be better utilized and the enterprise can obtain more comprehensive management.