MoldCloud - Enterprise Management Software
- Product Introduction
Challenges in mold manufacturing
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The mold is a typical single-piece production, designed according to order, and discretely manufactured. It is difficult to make the mold, and it is even more difficult to manage the mold.
Single piece production
Typical single-piece production, design according to order and discrete manufacturing, resulting in low degree of design standardization and process standardization; frequent design changes; inconsistent data management of BOM, graphics and documents; except for standard parts, all parts must be uniquely processed.
The production process is not transparent
Information on the production process is lagging and opaque, and the execution status of each business link cannot be obtained in real time. Repeated follow-up is required, and the communication cost is high. This directly leads to the difficulty for workshop management to play a supervisory and coordinating role, let alone control of production.
Long mold opening cycle
Generally, the traditional management mode of mold making by fitters is continued, which lacks planned control and process guidance. The mold making master's personal consciousness determines the mold manufacturing cycle to a large extent, so the cycle is generally very long.
Mould History Tracing
Can't find the mold during production? Spent half a day to find the mold, but can't find the relevant information about the mold? After the mold is installed on the machine, it is found that there is a quality problem, and it needs to be repaired or replaced with parts before production can continue.
Nine management problems of mold enterprises
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Compared with traditional manufacturing, the manufacturing process does not start after the BOM and process are basically finalized. Therefore, the parallel mode of mold design and manufacturing brings greater difficulty to mold management.
Difficult design management
How to compile material codes in mold factories? Manual compilation of BOM is prone to omissions, duplications, and errors, and frequent design changes
Difficulty in quoting molds
How to conduct material and labor cost analysis and provide quick and accurate quotation based on samples or drawings provided by customers
Difficulty in project tracking
It is difficult to understand the design, processing, clamping, and trial progress of each mold in real time, making it difficult to build customer trust
Difficult process preparation
Unable to quickly create process cards and accurately estimate the planned working hours for each part
Difficulty in planning
The plan is assigned to departments/machines/people, the model is frequently modified, and both self-production and outsourcing are given equal importance.
Workshop statistics are difficult
The workshop statistics are not timely, the machine utilization rate is low, the personnel are difficult to manage, and how to formulate employee performance
Difficult quality control
There are many suppliers, the quality of incoming materials is difficult to control, the production process is fully inspected, and the quality abnormality handling process is complicated
Procurement coordination is difficult
There are many types of materials, distinguishing between standard parts and non-standard parts, short procurement cycle, small warehouse inventory, and urgent outsourcing
Difficulty in cost accounting
The mold cost needs to be calculated for each process. New molds, mold repairs, and rework are frequent, and the mold trial cost is uncontrollable.
Fangtian Mould Cloud Value
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The mature architecture of the industrial Internet platform helps molds access the cloud ecosystem, provides digital capabilities, full-process monitoring, more transparent manufacturing management, and creates core competitive advantages
Mould quotation and cost analysis
Conduct cost analysis and quotation based on samples or drawings provided by customers. Monitor the actual cost of molds in the production process in real time. Are the material costs and labor costs of parts exceeding the standard? Which projects were originally quoted too low? Early warning of mold trials and abnormal costs caused by repeated mold trials and repairs.
Mould design and process management
Real-time understanding of design progress, automatic notification of relevant personnel to handle design changes and anomalies, and minimize the loss of design changes. It can be integrated with CAD and other design software to automatically generate BOM tables from drawings. The drawing workshop is paperless, and mold part drawings can be directly viewed to reduce the risk of loss during the transmission process.
Mold Project and Automatic Scheduling
It supports organizing the production of dozens or even hundreds of molds at the same time. The system displays the production progress of each mold on the web page in the form of a Gantt chart. The highly intelligent APS advanced production scheduling system can complete the automated production scheduling of tens of thousands of processes in tens of seconds. It provides intuitive load rate graphic analysis to achieve balanced production.
Barcode scanning and molding progress
Real-time production data collection, scanning with barcodes or RFID chips, reduces the workload of workshop personnel while completing the collection of time for receiving, loading, unloading, and transferring parts in each process. Through the mobile phone, you can track which processing units each part of each mold is currently distributed in, which ones have been completed, and which ones have not yet been completed.
Shop floor kanban and performance management
The progress of the workshop is clear at a glance, and the visual display of the Kanban board allows managers to clearly understand the production status and handle abnormal tasks in a timely manner. The introduction of the Amoeba management concept reforms the performance management of the mold workshop, analyzes the difference between planned working hours and actual working hours, and stimulates the enthusiasm and centripetal force of employees through employee performance reports to improve production efficiency.
Application scenarios of digital factories in mold enterprises
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Collect on-site manufacturing process information (such as personnel, materials, equipment, quality) in real time to improve on-site transparency and enhance on-site control capabilities. Visualized electronic dashboards in the workshop monitor and manage production, equipment, quality, materials, abnormalities, etc., helping mold companies build a comprehensive digital factory
About MoldERP.com
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Fangtian Software (stock code: 872823) has created the well-known mold master brand in the Asia-Pacific region. It is an advocate of mold ERP thinking and a provider of industry-specific ERP and enterprise cloud services. Since the establishment of the mainland R&D center in February 2003 and the full start of Greater China business, it has always adhered to the market segmentation strategy and provided more suitable one-stop enterprise management software and automation solutions for industries such as mold manufacturing, hardware machinery, plastic molding, and precision parts.
Adhering to the vision of "establishing the Chinese standard for mold ERP", Fangtian has been exploring and enlightening in practice, and has accumulated rich original experience. Fangtian has combined the internationally advanced ERP management knowledge with the characteristics of the mold manufacturing industry to develop the mold MoldERP enterprise management system, providing mature solutions and business practices for the success of ERP in the mold field. Today, the world-renowned MoldERP is not only a registered trademark of Fangtian, but also a synonym for mold ERP software.